5 Years of Spectrum! The company has grown hugely, tripled its staff base, extended its reach across the North of England and expanded its portfolio of services.

Our Wakefield sexual health team moves into new premises at Trinity Walk Clinic, Wakefield.

Spectrum’s Alcohol Liaison Service is selected as finalists at the Royal College of Nursing Awards.

Dr. Linda Harris travels to Tajikistan to be a speaker at an International Substance Misuse Conference, organised by the RCGP.

We retain the Spectrum ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 quality marks that demonstrate our ability to deliver quality services to our service users.

Spectrum People launches its hard-hitting ‘Snowball White’ performance by service users.

We win and retain the contract for healthcare services at HMP & YOI Styal.

Spectrum’s Alcohol Liaison Service is a finalist at the Nursing Times Awards.

Spectrum is part of the award-winning Head & Neck Cancer team, who top the Team Excellence category at the Macmillan Awards.

We hold our first mobile unit Staff Health Day within a prison – at HMP & YOI Styal.

Spectrum’s GP and Nursing team at HMP & YOI Styal is a finalist at the national GP Awards.

Spectrum’s work with Community Alcohol Partnerships wins an award from Yvette Cooper MP.

We launch our new Wakefield Sexual Health service.

Spectrum sponsors the 3rd RCGP Health & Justice Summit in London.

Spectrum has an official launch event at its new headquarter in Navigation Walk.

Our RSE team extends its successful Yearbook educational performance to students in the Barnsley District.

Spectrum People launches its new Appletree Allotment & Community Garden.

HMP & YOI New Hall launch a new sexual health service.

Our new sexual health team in Barnsley moves into the Gateway Plaza clinic in the town centre.

The team at HMP & YOI Styal wins the Silver Award at the RHS Tatton Flower Show.

We move into our new Head Office premises at One Navigation Walk.

Our team at HMP & YOI New Hall receive a glowing CQC and HMIP Inspection Report.

Spectrum sponsors the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride for the second year running.

An official launch event is held for the new Inspiring Recovery service in Wakefield.

Spectrum People launch the Agbrigg Allotments Project for its service users to participate in.

Spectrum People launch their new Café facility at Wakefield Indoor Markets for service users.

We launch healthcare services at HMP Full Sutton.

We win and retain the contract to deliver Sexual Health services for the Wakefield District.

We set up our new Clinical Research Directorate.

We win the contract to be a partner healthcare provider for HMP Liverpool & HMP Kennett. (We later decline the contract as we have a commitment to focus on growth with Compromise on Quality or Social Value).

Our healthcare services for the North East Prison Cluster are launched.

We launch our Integrated Sexual Health Services for the Barnsley District.

‘Inspiring Recovery’, the newly re-modelled integrated substance misuse service for the Wakefield District is launched.

Our Relationship and Sexual Education programme at HMP & YOI Styal, which helps empower vulnerable women on sexual health issues, wins the Pamela Sheridan Award at the National Sexual Health Awards.

Following successful funding, Spectrum People officially launch the Bike Project Scheme to its service users in Castleford.

We win the contract to provide healthcare services at HMP Full Sutton.

We win the contract to provide Sexual Health services across the Barnsley District.

We win the contract for providing GP and Pharmacy services and escort responsibility across 7 prisons in the North East Prison Cluster.

We retain the Spectrum ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 quality marks that demonstrate our ability to deliver quality services to our service users.

Rt. Hon. Francis Maude MP visits Spectrum to learn about the excellent work, innovation and wide range of healthcare services we provide.

Spectrum becomes one of the founding members of the Transform Research Alliance with City Hull Partnerships CIC. Members include YourHealthcare CIC, Provide CIC, SEQOL CIC, 6 Degrees CIC, Community Dental Services CIC, Locala CIC, Nottingham City Care CIC, Navigo CIC, Medway CIC, Ace CIC and Chums CIC.

Spectrum provides support to Pinderfields General Hospital Emergency Department over Mad Friday, through the Spectrum Connects mobile health and wellbeing unit.

We begin to provide enhanced nursing services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, delivering Head and Neck Cancer support.

Dr. Linda Harris is a finalist as ‘Chief Executive of the Year’ at the HSJ Awards.

Our Relationship and Sexual Education team at HMP & YOI Styal are finalists at the HSJ Awards for the highly commended ‘Primary Care and Community Redesign category’.

We retain our Substance Misuse Services contract in the Wakefield District, working alongside our partner Turning Point.

We win the Social Impact Award at the Yorkshire and Humber Social Enterprise Awards.

We are awarded the ‘Death in Custody service’ to cover the whole of the North of England.

We launch our West Yorkshire Finding Independence services for the Wakefield District.

Karen Jordan is a finalist at the Nursing Times Awards for Nurse of the Year.  The RSE team at HMP & YOI Styal are finalists at the Nursing Times Awards for ‘Nursing In the Community category’

We begin our new partnership with North Yorkshire Horizons service (alongside with DISC, Lifeline Project, the Cambridge Centre and Changing Lives).

On World Mental Health Day, Spectrum launches the Mental Health Movement for the Wakefield District.

We take over the healthcare services at Pennine House Immigration Removal Centre near Manchester Airport.

Our Wellbeing Team Leader, Karen Jordan, is a finalist for Employee of the Year at the Wakefield District Business Awards.

We receive a grant from the Police and Crime Commissioner for our Bike Recycling project for Spectrum People services.

Stroke Awareness, a major awareness raising event, led by Spectrum, is held in Wakefield City Centre, with end-to-end services represented at our mobile unit. Partners include SWYFT, Mid Yorks and the Stroke Association

The team at HMP & YOI Styal wins Silver-Gilt at the RHS Tatton Flower Show.

Spectrum sponsors the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride.

We win the contract to deliver to provide Non-Clinical Substance Misuse Services at HMP Wakefield.

We take over healthcare services at HMP & YOI Askham Grange.

We launch our first Integrated Business Plan for 2014-2017 with our primary focus to grow without compromise on Quality or Social Value.

Our new Spectrum Staff Council is announced following staff voting.

We achieve the full accreditation for the RCGP Prison Quality Practice Award at HMP & YOI New Hall.

Our Cardio Vascular Disease Project at HMP Wakefield beats 45 other entries to win the Innovation Category at the BJN Awards.

The Big Lottery Fund awards £9.8m to the West Yorkshire Finding Independence programme (WY-FI) to help us support vulnerable people with complex issues. Spectrum leads the Wakefield arm of the project.

Due to Spectrum’s growth, we move premises to our new Head Office at White Rose House in Wakefield

Our Relationship & Sexual Education Team holds our first ever Spectrum Connects Mobile Health Day at Cathedral Academy, showcasing our new innovative way of engaging with students.

We achieve the Spectrum ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 quality marks that demonstrate our ability to deliver quality services to our service users.

We restructure and improve our Contraception and Sexual Health services within Wakefield.

November. Our HealthCare Team at HMP Wakefield win second place at the Best Practice Conference for its work on Cardiovascular Disease.

October. The healthcare team at HMP & YOI New Hall is awarded the very first Prison Quality Practice Award by the RCGP.

September. Our Shareholders vote in favour of the move to a new shareholder model and the setup of a new Internal Employee Spectrum Council to help facilitate changes and improvements.

August. RCGP Inspectors visit the healthcare team at HMP & YOI New Hall to assess for the new Prison Quality Practice Award – a new national standard, which is being piloted by Spectrum.

July. We hold our second employee staff awards evening ‘Spectrums Got Talent’ event celebrating our employee’s hard work, commitment, partnership working and innovation.

July. Spectrum People are awarded official Charity status.

June. First Health Day event held at HMP & YOI Styal.

June. We win the contract to pilot a new Alcohol Liaison Service at Pinderfields General Hospital in Wakefield.

April. Spectrum healthcare services at HMP & YOI Styal are launched.

March. We hold our first Staff Conference, at 100 weeks since Spectrum launched and begin to define our Corporate Values.

February. Our Homeless Advocacy Project is invited to the House of Commons as a model case study.

February. Spectrum is awarded Investors In People status.

February. We become a member of the Building Health Partnerships project bringing together local CCG’s and third sector organisations in the local area.

January. We win the contract to provide healthcare services at HMP & YOI Styal.

December. We undertake our first Staff Survey.

December. We are awarded the ‘Positive about Disabled People’ Quality Mark.

November. Our Cardio Vascular Disease Nurse, Michelle Bennett, wins the British Heart Foundation’s Creativity and Innovation Award.

November. Our ‘Creative Minds meets Spectrum People’ event showcases the great work being done to help vulnerable people in the local area.

October. Our Relationship and Sexual Education Team launches its Yearbook play, educating over 1400 Secondary School pupils about relationships and sexual health in the local area.

October. Our Wellbeing Team is a finalist in the Mediplex Innovation Awards and launches its Homeless Advocacy Project in the local area.

September. Spectrum People launch its Caring Garden Scheme, an allotment plot available to its service users.

July. We hold our first employee staff awards evening ‘Spectrums Got Talent’ event celebrating our employee’s hard work, commitment, partnership working and innovation.

June. We hold our first Annual General Meeting with our newly appointed Board Members.

April. Spectrum purchases a new mobile health and wellbeing unit ‘Spectrum Connects’ and holds its first Annual Health Day at HMP & YOI New Hall.

November. Spectrum has its official launch event at the Hepworth Gallery.

We become a pilot for the Government’s Payment by Results scheme.

April. Spectrum Community Health CIC is born, offering a range of health and wellbeing services within community and secure environment settings in the Wakefield District.

January. The Wellbeing team is one of the finalists at the RCN Frontline First Awards, Innovation in Nursing category.

September. Recruitment begins for two Non-Executive Directors, who will take up positions on the new Spectrum Community Health Board.

March. More steps on the road to become a Social Enterprise. A Business Plan and Strategy of Services are developed.

November. WISMS is one of a small group of projects to get the go-ahead to take the first step to become a social enterprise, under the ‘Right to Request’, a Department of Health initiative.

April. Wakefield Integrated Substance Misuse Services (WISMS) becomes a national Integrated Care Organisation Pilot for the Department of Health. The team beat off competition from 100 applicants to be one of just 16 chosen across the country. The aim of the two year pilot was to explore different ways in..Read more

The service user-led Merlin project is launched to focus on substance misuse rehabilitation and social re-integration. It involves bringing service users together to reconstruct a local Iron Age roundhouse style building. Service users who have been involved in the project to date have gained valuable life and practical skills. It..Read more

November. The Government’s ‘Right to Request’ is introduced. This allows services in the NHS to become social enterprises. This is the scheme that eventually allows Spectrum to be launched.

August. The Community Safety Partnership launches the Wakefield Alcohol Treatment Requirement, a partnership between the Wakefield Alcohol Team and West Yorkshire Probation. A two year pilot, it aims to help motivate individuals to change alcohol related criminal behaviour through a combination of legal supervision and alcohol treatment.

Wakefield Integrated Substance Misuse Services (WISMS) is established by Wakefield NHS Primary Care Trust. Dr. Linda Harris is its Clinical Director. Services were operated by 13 staff offering much needed treatment and advice services for people with drugs and alcohol-related problems in the local area.