SCAA has over forty years experience of:

• Staging performances and events;
• Designing and running annual programmes;
• Organising displays;
• Running revenue raising activities;
• Managing staff;
• Managing volunteers;
• Managing projects;
• Managing a building;

During the financial year 2010 – 2011 income totalled £106,555.57, of which £2,250 came from RCBC for Programme Development and £1,500 from Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council toward the SCAA Building Fund. The remainder of the income came from SCAA activities and project work.

The income and expenditure calculations in this bid have been compiled by one of SCAA’s Directors, Peter Neal, who is also a Director of Ridgeway Developments (NE) Ltd, a local company specialising in land development, and is experienced in writing business development plans using professionally accepted criteria; plans he has previously written have secured offers of seven figure development loans from the Royal Bank of Scotland.

SCAA is confident that the figures presented in this bid are robust, take into account the current complex financial position of the economy, account for inflation, and are suitably structured to ensure that the acquisition of the new site will not represent a liability to SCAA or RCBC. The Board of Directors has fully authorised its Marske Mill Sub-Committee to submit this application on the strength of this liability.

Over the past forty years SCAA has had extensive experience of managing assets and delivering services to the community. and has been a key player in its regeneration. Membership of the Board of Directors includes people with experience, in the legal profession, small to medium business ownership, education and teaching, property development and management, financial management and management in the voluntary and community sector. SCAA has a policy of recruiting Directors on the basis of their skills and expertise.

SCAA believes that our phased approach to the development of the asset will ensure that, by focusing first on the cottage and the main building, SCAA will be able to bring on stream income generation which will then allow focus on the exterior features of the building, followed by refurbishing mothballed classrooms to further increase income streams and finally by adding a hostel to the site.

SCAA understands that it will be faced by significant fund-raising tasks but, since this is a completely new project in a competitive market with private developers, funding partners will only enter into discussions when there is a definite offer of a CAT from RCBC. SCAA have identified over ten lottery funds which are relevant and two major regional funding partners.

The Board of Directors have considerable experience in securing funding from both statutory and charitable sources and are confident that the funding required for capital expenditure can be secured once the full costs are determined by an appropriate heritage survey, which will be commissioned once there is a definitive offer of a CAT from RCBC.

The business plan is based on revenue requirements being met from the activities and services of the project, since there are strong synergistic links with the existing site run by SCAA, as well as established demand that SCAA cannot meet currently. It is also noted that there will be a shared cost base between the staffing requirement of both sites. In light of this SCAA does not foresee that The Works @ Marske Mill will be a drain on either the existing SCAA premises or RCBC.

Planning and Design

SCAA will work with RCBC Planning Department, relevant RCBC officers and other professionals skilled in CAT and development of this type of project, including but not limited to Locality the specialist VCS body to ensure that any planning and design undertaken takes full account of the Grade II listing, Listed Buildings Consents, Building Regulations and Planning Laws and Regulations. It is worth noting that SCAA has over a decade’s experience in managing a Grade II listed building.

Inspection

SCAA has received some assistance from Tees Valley PSG who have provided comments on condition of the building and RCBC has provided copies of the survey undertaken in 2004. SCAA is currently in discussion with an English Heritage approved RICS Heritage Buildings Surveyor with regard to carrying out both a pre-acquisition report and a quinquennial report on conditions and faults.

Access

SCAA will work with RCBC Highways Officers and other appropriate officers of RCBC to improve vehicular access to the site, in particular left turn only egress is planned. In addition, there will be a positive policy encouraging access by all site users and visitors utilising public transport, cycling or walking.

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