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Robert Corn: My name is Rob Corn and I represent the Ivinghoe Old School Community Hub. I came
today to find out if any of the organizations represented could give us a little hand to
sort out community asset transfer and funding the project I suppose. The benefits, obviously
living in the lovely countryside, I live in the Chilterns in mid-Bucks I suppose it is
making it work and not forgetting the forgotten folk in what is supposed to be a wealthy community.
Never been entirely sure what you mean by social enterprises. If you mean a collection
of people who get together to help one another, yes I suppose it would encourage people to
set up a community.
Sajida Carr: I’m Sajida Carr and I work for the National Trust and I’ll be developing
some work in Sparkhill which is south or just above me. What’s brought me here today,
I saw this video as I was watching TV and I was really interested behind the idea and
I wanted to find out a bit more about it, the challenges that were faced and what really
worked and how you can get people engaged in the process. The challenges of rural life,
I understand I mean I live, I’m a city girl but I understand that the challenges are transport,
you may feel isolated and I think in the snow you might get trapped but the benefits are
that I think probably do get a tight-knit community because of the numbers of people
and you get quite closely linked, the quality of life in the outdoors. I would encourage
communities to start afresh. I’d also encourage people to find out a bit more about them.
I think maybe some, information sharing and things happening around social enterprises,
maybe that’s probably holding people back but I think there are some values in developing
social enterprises.
Peter McClymont: Hello, my name is Peter McClymont. I’m from Buckland Brewer Community Shop
in North Devon. I’ve came today really to network with other people in similar situations
to ourselves. We’re a small rural community in North Devon. We lost our village shop about
three years ago and we’re trying very hard to get our community shop up and running by
the end of this year. I think one of the greatest challenge is I’ve lived most of my life
in towns and cities and moved to rural North Devon about six years ago and probably I think
Obviously the benefits is we have got a very active community life in which I live in and
no crime I guess it’s a benefit but it’s a very great community but I think it’s
threatened by the current economic climates.
Ruth Cole: Hi, my name is Ruth Cole and I’m from the Centre for Sustainable Energy. I’m
really looking forward to the energy workshop this afternoon just to sort of hear what sort
of questions community groups probably have been coming along. The Centre for Sustainable
Energy does a lot of work to support community groups who are setting up the community-owned
new energy projects. So, you know, there’s an awful lot of benefits you can get from
the community outfit so things like generating money for a feed in tariff and things like
that and other stuff in the communities so, just really interested to see whether option
is just help other groups do lots of things in their own communities.
Mark Gutteridge: Hi, my name is Mark Gutteridge and I’m from Community Futures and we were
involved in the Village SOS Program and we also worked on a business project for rural
communities in Lancashire and we’re attending today because we also did the Lancashire event
of the Village SOS and obviously we’re looking to see how the other events went and if there
was any sort of activity in other areas that we could replicate in Lancashire. The challenges
at the moment appear to be in Lancashire. We’ve got an ageing population and a declining
service infrastructure around rural communities especially around transport to define innovative
ways of dealing with this situation. We’re currently looking at a number of opportunities
for social enterprises in our area. What we’ve got at the moment is those microenterprises
being setup for just sports for those enterprises and we’re working on a lot of governance
with third sector organizations to allow them to incorporate social enterprises within the
community or ventures.