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How Community Base is run
Community Base is a registered charity (1052456) and a company limited by guarantee (3121688) with no share capital governed by a memorandum and articles of association.
The membership of Community Base the company is composed of charities and other not-for-profit, non-governmental organisations that licence space at Community Base all of whom are entitled to a vote at Community Base's general meetings. The annual general meeting elects a board of trustees/directors responsible for the running of the charity and the company.
There are currently eight board members - Sylvia Alexander-Vine (chairperson), Bob Cristofoli (treasurer), Sarah Bourne, Ros Cook, Paul Evans, Jane Frost, Tina Harrison and Lucy Stone. Board meetings usually take place every two months.
Community Base is run on a day-to-day basis by its staff - our director Colin Chalmers, our building manager Annette Moss and our receptionist/administrator Deborah Sprackling. The director is also the company secretary.
We use income from rental and service charges to repay a mortgage on the building we own and meet our running costs. Brighton and Hove City Council shows its support for Community Base by giving us 100% discretionary rate relief.
All licence agreements for the use of space at Community Base specify the use space is licenced for as running a particular group - sometimes the licencee organisation as a whole and sometimes a particular project run by the licencee. Groups that space is licenced for the use of are called participant groups. Every month a participant group meeting is held where anyone working at Community Base can raise any issue concerning the running of Community Base. Participant groups are expected to use our inside Community Base logo on their publicity.
Community Base
has a development plan for 2004 to 2009 and policies to make our practice transparent and accountable. Every year the board of trustees updates the development plan's five year budget and assessment of risks to development and publishes audited accounts.
We publish annual statistics detailing the number of people helped by groups at Community Base, the use of our reception by the public, our energy use and other matters and a comparison of these statistics over the last five years. We ask participant groups to give us their views on Community Base in an annual questionnaire. In January 2008 we carried out a survey into the first six months of Brighton and Hove volunteer search.
This website has a page dedicated to our first receptionist Sue Cole who died in 2006.
You can read about the review Community Base carried out into its policies and practices in early 2007 here.
Community Base celebrated its tenth birthday in July 2007.
