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The
Saxmundham & District
Community
Interest Company
(SADCIC)
is
a local social enterprise,
formed, in
2007,by local volunteers,
to
encourage and support the
economic,
social, health and environmental
wellbeing
of all the people of Saxmundham
and
the surrounding area.
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SADCIC's flagship
project
is
the
creation of a
Community
Enterprise Centre,
by
2013.
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For
the latest SADCIC progress report,
please
click here.
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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 regenerate Saxmundham and the surrounding
area for the benefit of all local people
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PUBLIC MEETING
Monday, September
20th
7.30pm at
the Gannon Rooms, Saxmundham
In
order to carry out a feasibility study and build a business
case, a Joint Project Board is being set up, between SADCIC
and Suffolk County Council and with other key stakeholders
involved.
Volunteer residents
are being called
to
a working party meeting
to
start the research.
For
more details, please make use of the "contact us"
page.
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In
a hurry?
1.
To download a 2 page SADCIC briefing leaflet,
click
here
2.
To download a 2 page document
on
the exciting proposition for a Saxmundham
Community Enterprise Centre,
click here
Why not
print them off
and
read them at your leisure?
(This site
is currently attracting over 350
visits a week!)
The
central principle of the “Big Society”
idea
- or
"Social Capital" -
-
or the ‘Do-It-Yourself Society ‘
-
is
that we all need to take responsibility
for
our own communities,
and
not just expect the state to do everything for us.
Its not a new idea and goes back over 50 years,
but
that vision could be a manifesto
for
social enterprise at its best.
In
its bid to effect very substantial budget cuts,
Suffolk
County Council has
said it plans to:
The
result will be a smaller council,
working
in partnership
with borough and district authorities and with community
groups.
“We
will work much closer with
districts and boroughs and health organisations and working
with the
voluntary sector, who have a big role to play in developing
the
new strategic direction”.
Jeremy Pembroke, Council leader
The
Saxmundham & District
Community
Interest Company
is
in readiness to support the "Big Society" agenda
and deliver for
the Saxmundham and district community
in
terms of economic, social, health and environmental improvements.
For more
information on
Community Interest
Companies
please click
here.
For
more information on the government's
"Building
the Big Society",
please
click here. |
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The
development of the Sizewell nuclear facility over the next
5-15 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 very significant 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.
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.
31/1/2010
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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...
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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...
SADCIC will,
in particular, encourage and support other local social enterprises,
including the formation of new social enterprises to provide employment
for local disadvantaged residents eg those with learning disabilities,
physical disabilities, mental health problems and sensory impairments
- and not forgetting the "lost generation" of local young
adults who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
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
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, July 25th , 2010
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