Ashford LD Community Interest Company

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• Dave Rawling Director
• Steven Dawson Director

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• Why a Community Interest Company ?
• To provide a company that can employ people and
  trade
• To provide a company that cannot give away its
  assets to make someone rich.
• To provide a company that could respond to the
  needs of people with a learning disability
  quickly.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• What is a Community Interest Company?
• It is a company that is registered with Companies
  House.
• It is an incorporated company that has directors
  that run the company.
• It has a limit to its liability- ours is limited
  by guarantee.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• What is a Community Interest Company?
• It has to have a defined community benefit.
• It has a regulator.
• It has to show each year that it has provided a
  community benefit.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• What will our Company do?
• It will help people make choices and support them
  as they develop their independence.
• It will provide services.
• It will provide opportunities for integrated
  employment.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• What will our Company do?
• It will provide a hub for brokerage in Kent.
• It will continue to be guided by what people with
  a
• learning disability want by listening to their
  views
• expressed though the Ashford District
  Partnership Group
• and the Kent Board and other representative
  groups.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• What will our Company do?
• It will use its assets to help people with a
  learning disability that live in the Ashford
  District.
• It will provide training.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• Where do we go from here?
• Possibly
• Help people develop small businesses and provide
  ongoing support.
• Develop trading activities to employ more people
  directly.
• Develop integrated social activities where there
  are gaps.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• Where do we go from here?
• Develop our ability and that of others to provide
  a better range of facilities for people with
  severe disabilities.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• Our Community Interest Company will endeavour to
  increase the community presence and social
  integration of people with a learning disability.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• What a director can do.
• I help run the company.I can ask other people
  to help run the company.I can work alone as a
  director or work with other directors.I can ask
  another director in the company to speak or act
  on my behalf.I can vote. I can call a meeting,
  but I must make sure I give everyone enough
  notice to attend.If one of my friends or family
  will make money from a company decision, I may
  not vote.I must not throw away records of
  meetings as they must be kept for 10 years.The
  smallest amount of directors that can make a
  decision is 3.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• I can vote in a new chairman or vote him or her
  out again.I can decide on how decisions are made
  as long as I tell the other directors.All
  directors must be voted in properly by other
  directors, before they can make decisions.The
  minimum amount of directors in a company is 2.I
  am a member of the company as well as a director
  .I can be voted out of the company by the other
  directors.I can be paid.

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Ashford LD Community Interest Company

• I can claim expenses.Directors can let new
  members into the company.I cant give my
  directorship to another person.Directors call
  and plan meetings.4 people or more must be at a
  general meeting.Minutes of meetings must be
  kept.I must give people info about meetings.
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• Steven Dawson Director.