Background

NSA is a member led, community based regeneration organisation that is a Company Limited by Guarantee and a Registered Charity. It is governed by a Board of Director Trustees which has amalgamated with the NSA Communities First Partnership and has nomination rights on to the Board. Its area of benefit is Sandfields East, West and Aberavon in the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot. Its area of operation includes Swansea Bay; Waterfront and The Western Valleys.

New Sandfields as it was originally named was established to improve the environment, health and reduce crime for residents in Sandfields East and West. It formed working parties to discuss the issues that later became the Communities First Vision Framework Themes. As the Grant Recipient Body (GRB) for the Communities First programme, its capacity was increased and the publication of the Sandfields Aberavon Neighbourhood Plan 2005-2015 forms the basis of the objectives and critical success factors for this business plan.

NSA cultivates community enterprise and is a member of the Development Trust Association Wales. It acquires or purchases local assets to meet local needs. It secures community prosperity by keeping money within the community by sourcing local suppliers and customers. NSA strives to build a sustainable organisation in a sustainable community.

Charitable objects

■The promotion for the public benefit of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation and in particular the electoral divisions currently known as Sandfields East, West and Aberavon.
■ The advancement of education, training or retraining, particularly amongst unemployed people and providing unemployed people with work experience
■ To relieve sickness and to preserve and protect good health
■ The relief of poverty

■ To provide recreational facilities for the public at large or those who by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances have need of such facilities
■ The maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities
■ The promotion of public safety and the prevention of crime
■ Such other means as may from time to time be determined subject to the prior written consent of the charity commissioner for England and Wales

Beneficiaries

■ Residents
■ Community groups
■ Organisations in the area supporting or delivering services for people
■ People who are economically inactive
■ People who experience social exclusion and or disadvantage
■ People who experience ill health and or poverty

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