Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company Your ‘Big Society’ at work in Saxmundham WELCOME to The Market Hall Presentations

Saxmundham & District Community Interest CompanyYour ‘Big Society’ at work in Saxmundham

www.saxcommunity.co.ukwww.saxcommunity.co.uk

WELCOME to The Market Hall

Presentations will begin at 7.00pm

Refreshments are available (supplied by Saxmundham Guides)

Please view The Exhibition at the rear of the hall


www.saxcommunity.co.uk

Welcome

Ron Warren MBE

Volunteer Director and Chair, SADCIC



Presentations – Outline

1. Suffolk CC New Strategic Direction – Cllr Jane Storey, Deputy Leader SCC

2. The Big Society and social enterprise – Cllr Rae Leighton, SCC

3. The Saxmundham Community Enterprise centre – SADCIC representatives

4. Library services in Saxmundham – Cllr Judy Terry, SCC

5. Summary & Feedback



The ‘New Strategic Direction’ for Suffolk CC and Budget expectations

Jane Storey

Deputy Leader, Suffolk County Council

Suffolk County Councils New Strategic Direction

Context

• Short term funding crisis

-28% cut in budget over 4 years

• Increase in demand for many of our services

• Equates to savings of £125 million

Our options

• Do nothing

• Make efficiency savings

• Just cuts services

• Find another way

Priorities

• £43 million budget cuts 2011/12

• £40 million in divestment by 1st April 2013

Our Response

Divestment – why do it?

1. Reduce the overheads of being a large organisation2. To change the identity of the Council from service provider to community

leader, consumer advocate, market maker3. To create more localised and joined up services4. To hand back responsibilities to our residents, customers and

communities5. To unlock the creativity of our staff to co-create different services with our

communities6. To create an economically more efficient model for assessing value by

financially empowering users and paying by results

Benefits of Social Enterprise

• Social enterprises build communities of interest around their business like approaches to tackling social and environmental issues

• They contribute to the economic and social growth of the county including job creation and levering external funds

• They seek to make a financial surplus and reinvest in local benefits

• As viable businesses they interact with the wider economy and society in a sustainable way and shape these

Divestment programme – our Ideas• Big Ideas

Social Care TrustsLearning TrustSingle Highways PartnershipYour Place

• Early AdoptersOutdoor Education

Traded ServicesSuffolk HeritageEnterprise Employment AdviceAdult Learning Library and LEAPProperty

Registrars

Your Place

• Creating space for divestment

• A Total Place approach to discussions

• Support for ‘credible proposals’



Questions

Facilitated by Ken Howe

Saxmundham Town Council



The ‘Big Society’ and Social Enterprise for Saxmundham and area

Rae Leighton

Local Councillor, Suffolk County Council

The BIG Society?

• Social Enterprise

• Opportunities for Saxmundham

• Services

• County Buildings in and around Saxmundham

• The SADCIC Model – Joint Partnership



Questions





A Community Enterprise Centre for Saxmundham and District

Robin Potter

Volunteer Director, SADCIC



Background

• Saxmundham Community Plan produced Feb 2009

• Action Plan for Saxmundham

• Information gathered via: workshop and drop in consultations with the community a postal survey of 5500 households in IP17 a survey questionnaire of 250 local young people More than 18 months work £18k investment



SAXMUNDHAM COMMUNITY PLAN

Saxmundham and District Community Interest Company

www.saxcommunity.co.uk February 2009



Vision for 2015

Saxmundham will be a vibrant and socially inclusive market town, containing:

• A new Health Centre

• A Community Enterprise Centre

• More higher skilled, higher paid employment opportunities, especially for the young adults of the area

• An integrated transport hub for the area

• A revitalised secondary education facility on the current Middle School site

• A revitalised High Street with a produce market supporting the livelihoods of local suppliers

• Two popular town centre supermarkets



Action Plan

• Community Enterprise Centre

• Health Centre

• Improved Youth Facilities

• Training and Enhanced Employment Opportunities

• Integrated Transport Hub

• Improved Retail Heart of Saxmundham

• Middle School Facility

• Elderly and Disadvantaged Forum



Saxmundham Middle School becomes…

a Community Enterprise Centre for the town and surroundingparishes



Community Enterprise Centre

• The centre will be a multi-function, multi-agency building and SADCIC is looking to work in partnership with a variety of users in providing accommodation and services

• Potential Users:• Suffolk County Council for locally based staff • Suffolk Coastal District Council• Library • Police• NHS • BT • University Campus Suffolk and • EDF Energy



Community Enterprise Centre - Community

• Café/IT suite

• Main Hall/green room/stage/store

• Meeting/dining room

• Fitness suite

• Changing rooms, showers etc

• Multi-media area (e.g. recording studio /community radio station)

• Youth area

• Crèche

• Town ‘Hopper’ Bus



Community Enterprise Centre - Enterprise • Significant office and business areas supported by advanced IT facilities

• Commercial kitchen

• Conference Centre /teaching /meeting room

• Bar

• Library/Information centre

• Training area

• Suffolk County Council (eg Social Care, Community Learning)

• Sizewell (EDF)

• University Campus Suffolk

• NHS Counselling / Clinics

• Police facility



Community Enterprise Centre - Saxmundham Middle School site

• Will be declared redundant for Education from July 2012

• Currently supports more than 10 community activities

• Premises in very good order

• Space for both Community and Enterprise users





A Community Enterprise Center for Saxmundham and District

Stephen Palmer






Governance

• Partnership

• Project Board

• Workstreams1. Feasibility

2. Business Plan

3. Library

4. Community Users



Milestones & Plan



The Business Model

• Capital• Building Cost• Refurbishment / adaptations• ‘Green’ issues

• Revenue• Management• Maintenance• Cleaning etc.



Required skills• Accountancy / Book keeping / Finance

• Building skills in adapting and upgrading the building

• Quantity Surveying / Clerk of Works

• Building Facilities Management for running the building

• Big Fund raising Event Organiser / Committee (Summer Fair / Folk Festival etc.?)

• Setting up CIC for running the community Café, Library, Cleaning etc



Questions





Library Services and consultation on options for future delivery

Judy Terry

Portfolio Lead for Library Consultation, Suffolk County Council

‘Have your say on the future of Suffolk’s libraries’

Councillor Judy Terry

Suffolk County Council Portfolio Holder for Library Divestment

Background

• Suffolk County Council

– Libraries need to contribute to Suffolk County Council saving, as will every other service,

– The New Strategic Direction envisages services being divested to communities who can:

• Run them more innovatively• Run them more in tune with local need• Run them more cost effectively because they do not

have the same overheads as the County Council

Suffolk Libraries Consultation

• ‘Have your say on the future of Suffolk’s libraries’

– Major consultation on the library service– What people value about their library– Asking for innovative ideas on how libraries might

be managed in the future– Asking for ways that savings might be achieved

Saxmundham Library

• Currently at

– Council Offices, Street Farm Road• What do you think of the library?

– What do you value about the library?– What should the library be doing in the future?

• Is the library in the right place?

– If not where should it be?• Do you have any ideas about how it could be managed

differently at less cost?

Our Timetable

• 30th April consultation closes.• 30th April outline Expressions of Interest to be received.• 19th July Suffolk County Council Cabinet considers

feedback from the consultation.• Autumn 2011 discussions on Expressions of Interest and

working up community business plans.• Autumn 2011 any further consultations on specific

proposals.• April 2012 implementation of new arrangements.

Suffolk Libraries Consultation

• Consultation runs until 30th April• Please give us your views

www.suffolk.gov.uk/LibrariesConsultation2011Libraries Consultation 2011 Suffolk County Council Ipswich SuffolkIP1 2BR

http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/LibrariesConsultation2011



Questions





Consultation and Feedback

Next steps

Don Tricker




IP17 Community

•Residents

•Local Community & Voluntary Groups

•Local Social Enterprises

•Local Authorities & Agencies

•Local Businesses



Visits

•Debenham Community Centre

•Kesgrave Community Centre

•Sunlight Community Interest Company, Gillingham

•Keystone Trust at Thetford.

•Halesworth LEAP Centre

•Gainsborough Community Library

•Marram Centre, Kessingland



Next Steps

• CEC Business Plan

• Go / No Go on Middle School / CEC

• Contract with SCC

• CEC Refurbishment

• CEC Launch!



Feedback

1. Consultation Feedback Sheet

2. www.saxcommunity.co.uk



Questions





Summary and Close

Ron Warren MBE

Volunteer Director and Chair, SADCIC


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Thank You for coming

Please complete feedback form

Exhibition and informal discussion until 9.30pm

Refreshments available (supplied by Saxmundham Guides)

The Exhibition will re-open tomorrow at 10am

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Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company Your ‘Big Society’ at work in Saxmundham WELCOME to The Market Hall Presentations