Suffolk House
2 Wharfedale Road
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 4JP
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Telephone: 01473 242 500
Fax: 01473 242530
Email:
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Web Site: www.suffolkacre.org.uk
Operational Area:
Suffolk wide
About:
Suffolk A.C.R.E (Action with Communities in Rural England) is a charity and company limited by guarantee incorporated in 1997. It was established in 1937 to work with communities in Suffolk. It's mission is to tackle the economic, social and environmental needs of communities in Suffolk by forging effective partnerships between communities and agencies and promoting communal self-help.
It is Suffolk A.C.R.E's aim to help communities in Suffolk to identify and tackle their needs through community action. Suffolk A.C.R.E's role is to support community groups voluntary organisations to undertake self-help activities and enable communities to take ownership for their own well-being.
Services:
- Business Support Services (including village halls, community buildings, social enterprise and funding advice)
- Community Engagement and Consultation Support (including Parish Plans, Rural Housing and Good Neighbour Schemes)
- Insurance for community groups, community buildings and Parish Councils
- PAT electrical testing
- Hire of fully accessible minibuses
- Hire of Hearing Induction Loop
- Hire of Resource Centre Rooms, Equipment and UK Online centre ICT Suite
- Good Neighbour Scheme Toolkit
Training:
Accredited and bespoke training courses:
- Business Planning
- Community Development
- Community Involvement and Planning
- Consultation Techniques
- ICT
We can also provide training in specialist areas including:
- Village Hall/Community Building management
- Project development and management
- Funding
Rural Advocacy:
Gathering information about rural need to inform the policies of other agencies and to develop activities to help to tackle those needs.
Suffolk Online:
Suffolk Online offers specialist Database and Website Development with fully trained in-house database and web developers. It also offers ICT Support packages to voluntary organisations and charities within Suffolk.
Venue Specific Transport:
An extensive list of accessible transport at a reasonable cost – from regular trips to and from Day-care Centres and Respite Care to airports trips and holiday destinations across the country.
Kickstart a ground breaking initiative aimed at tackling the rural isolation and disadvantage experienced by people of all ages living in rural Suffolk, when trying to access training and employment but without accessible transport. It is a moped loaning scheme which gives rurally isolated people aged 16-65 the opportunity to get out of the ‘No transport, no training, no job, no money’ cycle.
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