SOCIAL COOPERATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Financial Issues
Primavera 85
The True Story of
an Italian Social Cooperative
Speaker: Luciano Bedin
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
Presentation
Primavera 85 runs day centres, school projects, after-school services
and afternoon rehabilitation services that involve about 200 families
every day.
Activities are run by 50
operators assisted
by a large group
of volunteers.
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
Mission: become an asset and a resource for communities with centres.
We mainly deal with:
People with autism
People with mental and physical disabilities
Elderly people with disabilities
Job training and placement
After-school activities
Learning difficulties
The elderly and third-age issues
Running a shop
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
CLP – Center for job training
This center is dedicated to people
with various degree of disabilities.
Its aim is to support disabilitated
people in the path towards the
world of work.
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
Alternative Jewellery
project
Involves people with mild mental and physical disabilities
who do not need to attend a day centre.
AIM: develop manual skills in order to foster their
chances of finding local employment
BY  setting up a goldsmith’s workshop where all work is done by hand
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
GOING FOR GOLD
This workshop uses some of Vicenza’s longest standing
goldsmiths to ensure that decades of experience will not be
lost to the current crisis and to create a link between old and
new generations, resulting in a wide range of people being
able to benefit from the workshop.
Valorise (not compete with)
Vicenza’s traditional goldsmith
system
Social inclusion of people
in training scheme
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
How much did it cost?
All of the tools were donated by local goldsmith workshops
and the workshop itself is housed at the job training day centre.
Consequently, in financial terms,
the cooperative did not have to make an investment.
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
Commercial
development
Imperfection is our added value
Unique jewellery displayed during special exhibitions
at project-partner jewellers’, interviews on local TV, a website.
MORE THAN 50 JEWELLERS INVOLVED
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
Local Repercussions
Users: more training/placement opportunities in an environment that leads to
proper social inclusion.
Cooperative: chance to offer innovative training schemes and receive income.
Young designers: chance to fulfil projects and learn from skilled craftsmen.
Older goldsmiths: chance to pass on their knowledge.
Redundant workers: chance to work alongside trainees as volunteers.
Vicenza goldsmith industry: chance to safeguard part of its patrimony and
knowledge.
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
Strategic partners
Retired goldsmiths or goldsmiths who
have closed down their business
E-Team communication agency
Disability department’s and Vicenza
Local Health Authority’s Work Placement
Service
Ireland’s tinymonkeydesign agency
Psychiatry department’s Work
Placement Service (Vicenza Local
Health Authority)
Young designers
Vicenza Local Health Authority’s
Disability department
Vicenza exhibition centre
Volunteers
Dozens of jewellers’ throughout the
Triveneto area
Veneto Productivity Centre (CPV),
Vicenza
Walter Maino’s advertising/photo studio
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
Thanks to our partners
and to a hard-hitting
advertising campaign,
the initiative has been
successful, and allowed
us to expose in
different goldsmith
workshops, as well as
in congress and
summits.
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
During one of the last events, we got in touch with Rwanda
Jewels workshop.
This initiative is part of the program of scientific and didactic
collaboration between IVAV University of Venice (Italy) and
KIST, Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda,
and it involves also the cultural collaboration program carried
out between the cited IVAV and the Foundation Claudio
Buziol. Partner and sponsor of the enterprise is The
Soroptimist International.
The result? A successfull joint-venture
between plant-fibers productors and
our experienced and appreciated
unique jewellery, with the aim of
helping our partners to manufact
objects suitable for european taste.
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
Luciano Bedin
[email protected]
www.primavera85.it
Dott. Luciano Bedin
Primavera 85 Cooperativa Sociale - via IV Novembre, 23 - 36050 Sovizzo Vicenza (Italy)
tel. 0444/376449 fax 0444/378728 e-mail [email protected] web www.primavera85.it