Community Building Management Summit Agenda

Licensing for Alcohol, Music and Entertainment
Roger Taylor, Consultant Wellers Hedleys  

This session will cover the requirements on the owner of the building and the users in respect of licenses, what obligations the owner can impose on users and the enforcement of the same, and the liabilities of the owner in the event of a breach of the terms of the license.

Managing Community Building Risks and Insurance
Graham Hunter, Senior Risk Engineer, Zurich Insurance

There are lots of things to consider when you’re responsible for managing a community building. It’s important to make sure you’re adequately insured and risks are managed to reduce the chances of your building getting damaged. This session focuses on:

• Risks to consider when carrying out work on your building
• What to consider if you’re responsible for installing or maintaining solar panels
• Making sure you’ve got adequate insurance cover for building, to avoid being underinsured if something goes wrong

How to do an Energy Audit of Your Community Building
 Kate Elliott-Rudder & Tess Rushton, Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) 

Community buildings are key areas where carbon emissions can be reduced. Whether you own the building or not, this session will help you to understand how to do an energy audit of a community building to identify priority actions to reduce carbon emissions and save money on running costs.

No plan is actionable without understanding how measures can be funded, so this session will also introduce ways of finding funding and tips for making funding application for building improvements.  

Project Managing a New Community Centre Development
Linda Larter MBE, Chief Executive to Sevenoaks Town Council  

The presentation will walk through Project Management of the initial stages of public consultation, design, funding, procurement, the build of the project, fitting out, business plan, and promotion of the venue. 

Legionella Control
Dee Thornton   

This session will cover the following topics:

• Background to legionella bacteria 
• The law and UK legislation and your responsibilities 
• Penalties, fines and imprisonment – corporate manslaughter 
• Where legionella occurs 
• What you have to do to comply with the law 
• Identify the medical objectives of the risk assessments 
• Recognise how legionella causes problems in water systems 
• Understand the risks and the organisation reporting lines of communication 
• The importance of keeping records and the format and layout of written reports 
• Keeping a log register and making sure it is accurate 

Viva the Levolution: Recovering and Growing our Community Asset
Jez Hall, Director of Shared Future CIC

In 2013, in response to the threat of closure, a community campaign known locally as Levolution, was mobilised to save Levenshulme Old Library. Since then, through many years of hard work, a keystone local heritage asset was saved from becoming a liability.

Jez reflects on the long journey to first reopen the building as a community arts and culture centre, how it survived the pandemic, and what lies ahead. He’ll describe the practical challenges and the pressures such a project places upon the volunteers who lead it.

Look at the building’s website for more information.

Solar-powered Community Buildings – from Feasibility to Implementation
Andy Dean, Chief Executive, Community Action Northumberland

Community Action Northumberland (CAN) is leading a project to install solar panels and associated battery storage onto a range of community buildings – village halls, churches and others. The project aims to help buildings reduce energy costs, move towards net zero and gain resilience when connection to the national grid is lost.

Feasibility work is complete, planning permissions are being granted and funds are in place for the first installations. This session will look at how the project has got to this stage, how it will be managed and where the money is coming from.