The Saxmundham and District Community Development Partnership Ltd

The Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company(SADCIC)

SADCIC is a social enterprise, formed by volunteers, to address the needs of the people of Saxmundham and the surrounding area. We are not directly connected or run by any of our local authorities, although they did help to set us up. We do, however, work closely with them, and others, to achieve the economic, social and environmental regeneration of Saxmundham.

Our funding does not come from, or affect, local council tax. In the early stages funding has come from donations and successful bids to grant-making bodies eg The Lottery.Later funds will come from commercial trading revenues eg building/office rents arising from the proposed Community Enterprise Centre.

SADCIC aims to become commercially sustainable in the long-term and profits will be ploughed back into the business - cross-subsidising non-commercial community needs eg youth club, facilities for the disadvantaged. SADCIC must earn revenues in order to provide free and subsidised services for disadvantaged members of the community. It cannot operate unless it generates significant tradiing income...

Welcome to the The Saxmundham and District Community Interest Company website. The content of this website will be reviewed and refreshed weekly, as appropriate.

The development of the Sizewell nuclear facility over the next 10-15 years will provide an immense opportunity and challenge to our area of Suffolk.

It is vital that Suffolk gears up to maximise the benefit that we can derive from this immense opportunity. If we do not plan for and resource this opportunity adequately then we will miss out on a major and indeed once only opportunity for this generation of our community. Equally important is that we should maximise the opportunity thus created to provide a lasting local legacy of jobs, skills and both community and enterprise facilities.

At the end of the summer term in 2012 the Saxmundham Middle School will be closed. This raises the potential to use the site to provide the Community Enterprise Centre, as proposed by The Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company (SADCIC) - following stated wants and needs of local residents, as detailed in the SADCIC survey report (for more detail, see the “reports & publications” page).

Both events represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Together they could provide an extremely powerful boost to the well-being of an area with a relatively-high deprivation factor and paucity of local amenities.

The Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company are currently in dialogue with the major stakeholders eg EDF, BT, Suffolk County Council, Suffolk Coastal District Council, Saxmundham Town Council and the Local Strategic Partnership to explore ways of working together to realise the SADCIC Community Enterprise Centre on the Saxmundham Middle School site - for more detail, see the “reports & publications” page.

We welcome any comments, queries, suggestions or offers of help.

Why not join the team? - get to meet others working for the local community, by contributing your experience, skills, qualifications and sheer enthusiasm - absolututely anyone and everyone welcome!

Please use this link to find out more...

"The Community Interest Company does what it says on the tin. The concept is straightforward. It has the interests of its community at heart and proves this by agreeing to regulatory oversight of the use of its assets and social purpose and by providing transparency in the way it operates." Sara Burgess, CIC Regulator

The volunteer directors of The Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company, who are all passionate local residents, are proud to have been granted CIC status. It represents a charitable enterprise with a business model and an inclusive brand.

The creation of local community development companies is actively encouraged by the Government and SADCIC was formed with the local support of Saxmundham Town Council, Suffolk Coastal District Council, the Suffolk Coastal Local Strategic Partnership, Suffolk County Council and the Big Lottery Fund.

Other community development companies have been set up in the rest of England, including other areas of Suffolk eg Leiston, Framlingham and Wickham Market.

The SADCIC social enterprise is a member of the Social Enterprise Network Suffolk (SENS), the Development Trust Association (DTA) and the CIC Association.

Collaboration and Diversity Statement

In pursuing its aims to support the well-being of the local community, The Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company will actively seek to work in partnership with other public sector, private sector and third sector organisations.

We are a non-political and non-sectarian organisation run on democratic principles. We are strong advocates of the concepts of promoting equality, fairness openness and accountability treating all people according to their needs. No individual will be unjustifiably discriminated against.

This website was last updated on Sunday, February 7th, 2010

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