RAD Business Plan
2015/16
Rural Economic Growth
Strategic Aim
Specific objective
Activity
To engage with the
drivers of local
rural economic
growth
To build organisational
understanding of the issues
facing rural businesses and the
support available to them in
Derbyshire.
Priority
High
To identify any gaps in support
that could form the basis of a
project.
Focus in 2015-16 to be the development of the
Social Inclusion Consortium as the mechanism for
helping the voluntary and community sector deliver
against the Social Inclusion strategy of D2N2.
The D2N2 Social Inclusion strategy forms part of a
broader agenda around job creation and helping
people move into work.
Target- to work with others to develop a consortia
bid for the TO9 contract.
To increase our engagement
with partnerships such as D2N2,
Sheffield City Region, DEP and
Business Peak District.
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Transport
Strategic Aim
Specific objective
Activity
To help remove the
transport barriers
which prevent
Derbyshire people
from accessing
work and training.
To maintain a county-wide
provision of Wheels to Work
including ways to work support
so that help with transport is
available in each Derbyshire
district.
To continue to deliver a county-wide W2W
scheme which offers mopeds, bicycles and
travel to work costs.
Target: 150 County people helped
50 City people helped
2015/16 Funding from DCC Target £90K
To apply to BLF for funding to continue the
scheme in Derby City beyond April 2016
Priority
High
To explore ways of making the
scheme more sustainable and
enterprising.
To carry out an independent evaluation
To engage with new initiatives
aimed at helping people into
work education and training.
To explore how W2W can help deliver the
D2N2 and Sheffield City Region Local
Enterprise Partnership aims.
To raise the profile of Wheels to
Work and Ways to Work
schemes in Derbyshire,
regionally and nationally.
To continue to raise the profile of the scheme
via social media, events and RAD website.
To look to apply to LSTF and RGF to fund
initiatives arising from the evaluation
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Community Development including Neighbourhood / Community Led Planning
Strategic Aim
Specific objective
Activity
To enable
To develop awareness of the links Improved marketing to communities to promote
communities to
between community led planning the idea of developing a Neighbourhood
develop more local processes and Neighbourhood
Development Plans (NDP) or Community Led
control
planning
Plans (CLP).
Priority
Medium
To raise the profile of RAD as an
agency able to support
communities looking to develop
Neighbourhood Plans/ CLP and
other community initiatives.
Continue to raise RAD profile as the support
agency for NDP.
Continue to support communities looking to
develop CLP or NDP
Increase capacity to deal with increasing CLP /
NDP demand
Target; 2 ongoing plans and 3 additional plans.
Village SOS – to participate in the Acre managed
scheme.
Target; signpost 7 communities
Support 5 community projects
Services
Strategic Aim
To improve local
facilities and
services and to
improve take up of
those services
Priority
High
Specific objectives
To help community owned
buildings be the thriving heart of
their community
To support the farming
community and to encourage
them to access the services they
need
To provide training on Suicide
Awareness across Derbyshire.
Activity
Promotional campaign to raise awareness of the
support on offer.
To ensure all community buildings are included on
the County wide database.
Target 260 community buildings
To recruit and induct a new project officer.
To bid for the DCC tender to deliver SAT for three
years.
Target – I contract
To continue to develop paid for seminars to
generate income for the project.
Target 4 seminars
To work with Leicestershire RCC to secure funding
to develop a school based seminar and to deliver
seminars in Derby and outside Derbyshire.
To work with DMHF to develop a mental health
training package aimed at private sector
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Partnership working
Strategic Aim
To work in
partnership with
other agencies to
achieve shared
objectives of
benefit to rural
communities in
Derbyshire.
Specific objectives
To address financial exclusion by:
improving access to free, quality
debt advice, maximising income,
improving access to affordable
credit, improving access to
banking, tackling illegal money
lending; supporting saving in low
income communities and
increasing financial capability
levels.
Priority
High
Activity
Secure funding to enable Financial
Action and Advice Derbyshire
(FAAD) to continue beyond April
2016.
Work with Partners to expand
FAAD further by increasing the
membership.
Work with partners to deliver a
conference on a relevant financial
inclusion topic
Publish at least one research
report.
To improve the networking and
facilitate opportunities for
collective working of the VCS
infrastructure services in
Derbyshire through the effective
management of 3D.
Deliver externally funded projects
to secure agreed outcomes
To build on the 3D network to enable the wider
VCS to access resources to help deliver the D2N2
Social Inclusion Strategy.
Energy Generation/ Conservation
Strategic Aim
To support rural
communities in
Derbyshire to
become more
energy and fuel
efficient and to
reduce fuel
poverty.
Priority
High
Specific objective
To develop RAD’s ability to help
individuals combat fuel poverty,
in particular those off the gas
grid.
Activity for year 3
To explore options to improve the viability of
the Oil Buying Scheme in particular to move
the admin processes on line to enable more
resources to go into marketing.
To look at partnership working with other
RCCs or other agencies.
Target: 500 members
And 1 Million ltrs ordered p.a.
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Resources
Strategic Aim
Specific objective
Activities
To make the best
use of RAD’s
resources including
staff, trustees,
volunteers,
members and
funding.
Staff – to ensure RAD’s
staff have the support and
training they need to excel
at their job.
Continue with the staff support / appraisal
programme
Priority
High
Training offered as required.
To improve data collection processes to ease
reporting to districts and other funders.
Trustees – make sure RAD
has on its trustee board the
right mixture of skills and
experience required to
meet its strategic aims.
To elect officers to the board roles.
RAD will seek to build its
membership and engage
more fully with them to
gain their input into the
future direction of RAD.
To develop a communications strategy which
includes social media / website etc.
Funding – RAD will do all it
can to be as sustainable as
possible.
RAD will exploit opportunities to generate
earned income from NDP, programme
management, VSOS etc.
6 editions of RuralMatters to be produced.
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