RCMA's Organisational Structure
RCMA Social Enterprise Limited is a Company Limited by Guarantee set up in 2003 to manage RCMA’s income-generating activities such as the weekly running of the Riverside and Roath Markets, the Community Food Coordinator programme and the Community Allotment. As a local community group, the Riverside Community Market Association has ultimate control over the activities of the social enterprise through a permanent presence on the Board of Directors and at the Annual General Meeting.
As a social enterprise, we consider our stallholders - of which there are more than seventy in total - to be our partners.
People who represent a wide range of stakeholders and interested groups take the remaining places on the management committee, or are interested local residents. Our five-year business plan is created in consultation with them and at annual 'away-days’, which serve as team building and visioning exercises. We undertake annual surveys at our markets to elicit the views of customers and to devise how to better meet their needs.
The RCMA Directors meet quarterly to discuss on-going strategy and policy development. Executive Directors meet on a needs basis to deal with more general and operational matters.
Two Directors of RCMA are engaged on a contractual basis to deliver management and finance control services to the limited company. The Farmers’ Markets remained the prime income generators for RCMA as a social enterprise, and further funding/additional income is sought and brought in as needed to manage and deliver RCMA’s outreach and education projects.
Funding from the Tudor Trust and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation enables RCMA to employ a part-time project manager and outreach worker for the Community Allotment and to continue with the Community Food Coordinator post.
