The Calico Group: innovative charities and businesses working together to make social profit, rather than financial profit, the driving force behind our wide range of high quality services.

They define “social profit” as the positive difference we make to people’s lives, across all the communities in which we work. They create social profit by developing innovative services, and harnessing the opportunities of our unique group structure.

Their Purpose : Providing quality services that make a real difference to people’s lives.

They want to help individuals of all ages and backgrounds, and their families, live peacefully and prosperously in warm, secure homes and safe, friendly neighbourhoods.

They have a passion for making their customers’ lives better.

Their Values : They all commit to, and care about: Customers - Going one step further with their customers; Improving - Improving and strengthening theirselves abd their organization; and Wellbeing - Their welbeing as individuals and teams. To achieve their purpose of making a real difference to people's lives.

Their Aims : A clearly defined vision for developing – “we’re succeeding within private and public sectors”.

The Calico Group consists of six innovative businesses and charities. Together, they work to make social profit, rather than financial profit, the driving force behind our wide range of high quality services.

They define “social profit” as the positive difference we make to people’s lives, across all the communities in which they work.

They create social profit by developing services that meet the community’s needs, and harness the opportunities of their unique group structure; combining their growing range of complementary services to create innovative, new opportunities for the benefit of the community.

The Calico Group brings together the widest possible range of expertise – from their motivated service users, to their stakeholders who come from commercial, public and not-for-profit sectors.

To achieve their goal of delivering social profit, the Group’s strategic direction is driven by five cross-company strategic aims.