Community Enterprise Development Initiative (CEDI)

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Community Enterprise Development Initiative
(CEDI)
Community Grantmakers Network, May 2007
Rosewall Café, Corio
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What is Community Enterprise?

• Using a business model to approach a community
  issue

Landscape Gardening Enterprise, Maidstone
Braybrook
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Maidstone-Braybrook

• Issues
• Poorly maintained gardens in the area
• Lack of an affordable gardening service
• High levels of unemployment
• Low level of community pride

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Landscape Gardening Enterprise

• Response
• Access commercial gardening work to provide
  training and employment opportunities
• Develop a training and employment pathway
• Develop a model of subsidised gardening involving
  paid staff and volunteers
• Not for profit - Reinvest business surpluses into
  community garden
• Involves community in the governance

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ILM Model for Community Enterprise
Long term unemployed job seeker
6 week pre-employment course to develop work
readiness

• Traineeship for 12 months
• real job
• supported work place
• high levels of supervision
• assistance transitioning into open labour
  market
• Accredited training and qualifications

Position in the open labour market
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Other BSL Enterprises

• BSL/AMES Cleaning Company
• Community Contact Service
• Landscape and Gardening Business
• Street Cleaning Service

Community Contact Service, Fitzroy
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Employment Training Outcomes to Date
Enterprise Industry Trainees Staff Revenue Clients
CCE Cleaning 7 PT 1 PT 220,000 AMES/BSL/ NYCH
Community Contact Service Security Community Development 8 FT 4 PT 3 FT 550,000 DHS
Maidstone Braybrook Gardening Business Hard Landscaping/ Minor Maintenance 3 FT 7 PT 2 FT 750,000 DHS/SV/YCH
Hastings Gardening Hard Landscaping/ Minor Maintenance 7PT 2 PT 380,000 DHS/SV
36 traineeships 8 STAFF 1.9 million
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Community Enterprise Development Initiative (CEDI)

• Project is framed around teaching communities how
  to start businesses BSL as a facilitator.
• Sectoral development
• Network
• Research advocacy around Community Enterprise

• DVC and BSL partnership
• Working to establish enterprises in disadvantaged
  communities across Victoria
• 28 projects located in rural, regional and metro
  areas

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Questions?
Renovation for Renewal, Seymour