Union of Social Institutions
| Union of Social Institutions | |
|---|---|
| legal form | gGmbH |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| management | Wolfgang Grasnick |
| Number of employees | 218 employees plus 703 supervised (FY 2008) |
| sales | € 18.7 million (FY 2008) |
| Branch | Service, social |
| Website | use.org |
The Berliner Union Sozialereinrichtungen (USE) gGmbH, a subsidiary of the Unionhilfswerk, is a workshop for primarily mentally and mentally disabled people ( WfbM ) with 218 employees and around 700 disabled people. The 700 disabled people cared for are divided between 226 participants in the vocational training area and 477 participants in the work area. (Business year 2008) It has its headquarters in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , its area of activity includes Berlin and Brandenburg . USE is a member of the joint welfare association and a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .
history
USE gGmbH was founded in 1995 when it was entered in the commercial register by the Charlottenburg District Court . "Promotion of the welfare system, public health care and care for the elderly" was named as the company's object. The power of attorney was given to the psychologist Norbert Prochnow . The company then moved to its headquarters at Genter Straße 8-10 in Wedding and on Wassersportallee in Grünau . In the following year, the company set up a bistro for people with disabilities in Wedding , le COUSE . At the same time, the formal recognition of the activity by the State Labor Office Berlin-Brandenburg , which allows the USE to set up a workshop for disabled people, and by the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband , which on May 29, 1996 granted an initially limited membership until the end of the same year. This year, USE ran a day-care center on Manteuffelstrasse in Steglitz for the first time . Two years later, the field of activity was expanded with the opening of a support group for severely mentally disabled people in Wedding. In 1999 USE gradually relocated its headquarters to Koloniestraße in Gesundbrunnen and converted an old factory building for this purpose. In that year a Café Esscapade was added, but it had to be closed again after a few years. On the other hand, a printing house was built on Genter Strasse, which has since offered graphic arts services such as prepress , offset printing and bookbinding .
In 2000, USE founded the non-profit GmbH Education, Retraining, Social (BUS) together with a partner . It offers employment promotion measures for disadvantaged people in the primary labor market . The focus is on the model construction of structures that are to be exhibited at a later date in the Berlin-Brandenburg model park . Another field of activity emerged in electrical assembly, the packaging and assembly of mechanical components and assemblies. At the same time, USE set up a participant administration in Koloniestraße and an automated bookbinding shop in Genter Straße. In 2002 the marina in Grünau started its work. In 2003, a placement service for severely disabled jobseekers brought 72 people together with companies. The model park opened; With funds from the Vivendi Foundation, the offer was expanded to include a pottery . There was also a gastronomic offer in Köpenick , which also included catering . USE has been running the company canteen in the cellar of the Red City Hall and the Senator's canteen in the old town hall since 2003 . Shortly afterwards, the offer was expanded to include gardening and landscaping . A cooperation with the St. Hedwig Hospital in Mitte makes it possible to offer occupational therapy that can be used to reach people who are aiming for vocational rehabilitation. One place where such a reintegration can begin is the saloon ship Metamera, which also serves as a branch of the Treptow-Köpenick registry office . This field of work was added to the portfolio in 2004. USE develops a cutter, the ZK 10, which is marketed at boat shows in Hamburg and Berlin . A year later, the range of brushes, brooms and basketry in the listed building of a former factory for the blind in Oranienstrasse in Kreuzberg was expanded again. The products manufactured there are marketed under the name DIM - Die Imaginäre Manufaktur .
In 2005 USE was also able to acquire the previously rented site in Grünau. In 2006, USE rented another building in a building in Eichbuschallee in Treptow-Köpenick to set up a workshop for assembly, gardening and landscaping, administration, kitchen and housekeeping. This year, USE also started an education offensive and has since offered around 20 dual training occupations . At the end of 2006 a part of the marina building was torn down. The plans envisage the construction of a multi-storey building in which the catering, laundry service, carpentry, catering service as well as gardening and landscaping will be accommodated. In 2007 the model park opened in Wuhlheide . Around 50 models of Berlin and Brandenburg sights on a scale of 1:25 are shown. A year later the fleet was expanded to include a Hamburg port launch , the Ursel. In 2008 a consulting office opened in Treptow-Köpenick: The star fishermen are supposed to take over the mediation of volunteer work in their volunteer center . In 2009 the work area was expanded again, this time to include media design , which is offered in Koloniestraße. In the same year a manual bindery was set up in Oranienstrasse. In November 2009, USE opened another workshop in Teltow in the historic building of Biomalz Teltow . A construction company, metal construction, tailoring and housekeeping were installed in the commercial area.
In 2010 the renovation of the marina in Grünau was completed; likewise the renovation on the ground floor in Koloniestrasse. With the introduction of the job opportunity , an instrument of labor market policy, some of the measures are significantly reduced. As a result, there are redundancies and short-time work at BUS. In 2012 USE redesigned the store on Oranienstrasse. A café was created based on a concept by a Berlin design agency. In the same year, USE took over a zoo in Volkspark Hasenheide with the aim of turning it into a natural history educational and meeting place. Another cooperation in this area was established with the Wuhletal small animal farm . The number of jobs in Teltow was expanded. The employees now also pack spices and sweets there. At the end of 2012, USE acquired the AZAV certificate . The Café Sibylle has to close in 2013. The employees then switched to other areas of work at USE. The star fishermen, on the other hand, were able to look back on around 1,700 placements after the first five years of their activity. In 2014 the pastry shop in Grünau expanded its range to include a confectionery . The products were presented at the 2015 Ambiente , the largest consumer goods fair outside of Asia in Frankfurt am Main .
20th anniversary
USE celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. The Governing Mayor of Berlin , Michael Müller , praised USE for its “high quality products and services, their reliability and their professionalism”. Mario Czaja , Senator for Health and Social Affairs, emphasized the “leading role in the subject of work for people with a mental illness or disability”, which the USE assumed.
Range of services
The WfbM's range of services extends from the manual sector such as painting, carpentry, metal construction, gardening and landscaping, to floristry, to boat building and boat service. USE also operates a tailor's shop, a textile workshop, a pottery and a brush and braid manufacture. But she is also active in media design, offset printing, print processing as well as digital, screen and pad printing. In terms of service offerings, USE offers a cleaning service, a laundry, work for assembly and packaging as well as animal care and animal boarding.
USE gGmbH has also established itself on the market for the management of tourist and gastronomic facilities, such as the canteen in the Rotes Rathaus and Pier36eins (Grünau). The third largest zoo in Berlin, Haus Natur und Umwelt , in Berlin's Wuhlheide , is also operated by USE gGmbH. The USE gGmbH is also the sponsor of voluntary organizations and projects, such as the star fishermen in Treptow, the Berlin-Brandenburg model park , the BUS gGmbH and the eV " Social Pedagogical Water Sports Association (SOWAS) ". There is also a support group (which does not (yet) or temporarily no longer accepts disabled people) who are employed in the pottery. USE gGmbH also operates its own specialist integration service .
literature
- Union Sozialereinrichtungen gGmbH (publisher): 20 years of USE chronology 1995–2015 . 1st edition. Printing House of USE gGmbH, Berlin 2015, p. 116 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual financial statements for the business year from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008 of the Union Sozialereinrichtungen Zivilnützige GmbH, Berlin . Berlin, 2009. Published in the Electronic Federal Gazette on November 11, 2009.
- ↑ www.transparency.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 6, 2014
- ↑ commercial register HRB 57560 of the Charlottenburg District Court of 20 March 1995
- ↑ Union Social Institutions (ed.): Services of the WfbM , USE gGmbH, Berlin, 2015, p. 82.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '12.3 " N , 13 ° 26' 51.9" E