Trustees have agreed to make some small changes to better reflect the work of the Community Trust:
- Our organisation name will change from Sherburn in Elmet Community Trust to Sherburn and Villages Community Trust. The logo will be updated, adapting the logo from Sherburn & Villages Community Support Network (CSN) .
- The Sherburn & Villages Community Support Network (CSN) brand will be retired; all work will continue under the Community Trust or Library.
Why?
Trustees have been reviewing our purpose and strategy, as we look ahead to future opportunities and continue to recover from the impacts of Covid. Now is the time to make a slight change to our name to better reflect our work in the nearby villages. Retiring the CSN brand will simplify our work.
When?
We will start making the changes from 4th July 2023. Changes will gradually happen as we update documents, policies, website and social media.
What will change?
- We will now call the registered charity Sherburn and Villages Community Trust. We will refer to us as the ‘Community Trust’ or ‘the Trust’ in short, rather than SIECT or another acronym. Emails will still use siect.uk.
- We will stop using the Sherburn & Villages Community Support Network identity. Work will continue but be delivered either by Sherburn and Villages Community Trust as the anchor organisation, or Sherburn & Villages Community Library as the public ‘face’ of our services.
- Our social media presence will alter; we will close the CSN Facebook page and change the Trust name and logo.
- The change will happen slowly, such as when our documents are reviewed.
- We will let our staff, volunteers, contractors and key groups know when this change is live and any implications they need to be aware of.
What will stay the same?
- We expect our email address and website address to be unchanged, at least in the short term. We will consider the impacts and costs of any changes.
- Any leases, agreements, employment terms of conditions, policies and so on will continue until they are refreshed. There will be no changes to any of the details such as length of service for paid staff.
- The work delivered by Sherburn & Villages Community Support Network will continue, but be delivered either by Sherburn and Villages Community Trust as the anchor organisation, or Sherburn & Villages Community Library as the public ‘face’ of our services.
- The name and logo of Sherburn & Villages Community Library and The Old Girls’ School Community Centre will not change as a result of the Community Trust name change; this is a decision for each management group. The library have been considering changing their logo.
Contact
For any questions on this change, please email info@siect.uk.