Deliberation 2: Community Interest Statement

Drafting a ‘CIC36’ for The Miracle Inn

Subscriptions to the e-newsletter are building up. It is looking more and more likely that The Miracle Inn will become a reality, thank you!

Once formed, The Miracle Inn will be a membership organisation, constituted as a Community Interest Company (CIC).

Part of the process involves the submission of a ‘CIC36’ - the Community Interest Statement.

With some invaluable advice from two sector colleagues, I have drafted a CIC36 for The Miracle Inn. I have posted this below and would very much appreciate any feedback before I submit.

As with ’Deliberation 1’ on Membership, please use the comment box below to let me know your thoughts, or do feel free to write directly via the contact page. If there are any glaring mistakes, do please tell me.

In addition, The Miracle Inn CIC will need at least two Non-Exec Directors, ideally one local to west Wales and one from elsewhere in the UK. These roles will be voluntary and the level of time commitment will be as low as possible.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss becoming one of The Miracle Inn’s founding team - I can’t do this alone.

Here’s the DRAFT ‘CIC36’, please leave your comments below. Many thanks in advance:

CIC36 – Community Interest Statement

Company name: The Miracle Inn
Company number:(to be assigned upon incorporation)
CIC type: Private company limited by guarantee

1. Overview of The Miracle Inn CIC
The Miracle Inn is a Community Interest Company dedicated to developing, supporting, spreading, and practising culture-shifting approaches to education and environmentalism. The CIC will operate not for private profit, benefiting communities in west Wales, and the wider network of environmentalists and educators in the UK and globally.

Through its activities in west Wales, The Miracle Inn seeks to strengthen social capital and nature connectedness helping to create the foundations from which fundamental change to how society functions can grow.

Through its activities online and globally, The Miracle Inn seeks to support a paradigm shift in how education and environmentalism is understood and practiced.

2. Community and environmental benefit
2.1 Local activity – west Wales
The Miracle Inn will nurture the nature connectedness and social capital of communities in west Wales to deliver benefits locally by:

• Developing and supporting existing local social activities, clubs, and events that connect people to each other and/or to nature.

• Supporting and enabling environmental education in formal and informal education settings.

2.1.1. Example activities
The Miracle Inn will deliver local benefits through activities such as:

• Miracle Club - regular in-person 'no-agenda' meet-ups for environmentalists and educators.

• Miracle Teachers - supporting formal and informal education in Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.

• Miracle Cycling - informal cycling club in the lower Teifi valley catchment.

• Miracle Walks - rambles in nature connecting people with each other and the landscape.

• Miracle Party - annual celebration of positive community and environmental activity.

2.2 National and international activity
The Miracle Inn will benefit the broader community of environmentalists by:

·       Connecting practitioners - remotely and in person - to share, develop, and spread 'culture-shifting' approaches to education and environmentalism.

·       Coordinating campaigns to highlight, oppose, and counter the forces of hyper-individualism.

·       Nurturing intra- and inter-movement connections, bonds, and trust to benefit members of The Miracle Inn directly, and to increase the impact of The Movement for Interdependence as a whole.

2.2.1 Example activities
The Miracle Inn will deliver these benefits through activities such as:

• Miracle Club - open, hosted online “no agenda” social meet-ups for members.

• Miracle Activism - campaigns targeting systemic drivers of hyper-individualism.

• Miracle Workers - online workshops and talks with practitioners.

• Miracle Meet-ups - in-person gatherings as membership grows.

• Miracle Workshops -online and in person training on ‘culture shifting’ approaches.

3. Use of profits

• All surplus income will be reinvested into local, national, and international projects aligned with the CIC’s objectives. Reinvestment decisions will be made by The Miracle Inn membership.

• No profits will be distributed to directors or members, except as allowed under CIC regulations.

• The CIC’s asset lock ensures that its assets and any profits cannot be distributed for private gain, and must always be used to benefit the community or other approved charitable or community purposes.

4. Governance and operation
The Miracle Inn will operate with a flat structure, led by a core team of executive and non-executive directors responsible for project delivery, financial reporting, and compliance. Directors are accountable to a paying membership.

4.1 Membership and participation

• Members are an integral part of The Miracle Inn; they contribute to its culture, activities, and mission.

• Members have a responsibility to each other and to the CIC’s purpose, and may propose ideas for tackling hyper-individualism or nurturing interdependence.

• Members are invited, but not obligated, to deliberate on what The Miracle Inn does. Decisions are made collectively and implemented by the core team.

4.2 Commitment to values
The Miracle Inn is committed to safeguarding, inclusivity, diversity, justice, and equality in all its activities, governance, and engagement with members and the broader community.