OPEN HOUSE
Burngreave New Deal for Communities
Succession Arrangements
Thursday 10th September 2009
Carwood Suite, Sorby House
10am – 7pm
Presentations on BNDfC Succession Strategy by Ann Allen, BNDfC Executive Manager at 11am, 3pm and 6pm.
Staff will be on hand throughout the day to discuss the plan and gather your feedback.
Light refreshments will be available.
Please come along if you're interested in hearing how the New Deal programme is going forward and how it will continue to benefit the local community.
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"We are still here" – an update from the BNDfC Executive Manager, Ann Allen
Burngreave New Deal had to take some really difficult decisions early in 2009 around stopping funding for projects. The disappointment about those decisions is still being felt and voiced by both the New Deal Board and local residents. It was a really tough time for everyone involved.
Since March 2009 a number of our partners have stepped up to the plate and provided continuation funding for some of those former BNDfC projects. Our sincere thanks go to the City Council, the Primary Care Trust and South Yorkshire Police for making sure that the activities which have brought such benefit to local people are carrying on in some form. Thanks also to The Messenger and BCAF for their campaigning on this matter.
So, what about BNDfC itself? Well, we have had an intense couple of months refining our succession plans which still have at their heart the aim of generating an income from New Deal assets to invest back into the local community. This principle was publicly endorsed back in 2007 and it hasn’t changed.
That income is going to take some time to achieve but to give ourselves the best chance of delivering that aim, we have pared back the New Deal team to an absolute minimum and we’re all focussed now on making sure we manage our buildings to make the maximum profit to give back to the community. We have the acknowledged luxury of using the remaining half a million NDC grant to support us over the next two years in getting to that profitable position.