This is a Legacy Project focusing on applying excellence and aims, to empower and develop individuals who need the support. The Jigsaw Project was born to make a positive contribution to the delivery of its vision, particularly to reduce health inequalities and ensure all communities can make healthy choices with opportunities to support active lifestyles, encourage healthy eating and deliver wellbeing initiatives, creating a strong sustainable future encased with a resilient package to strengthen our communitys future. With opportunities for additional volunteering and the potential to open new doors for employment, this legacy project of innovation will improve the Health & Wellbeing of South East of Caithness (SEC).

The current Centre is deemed too small and impractical to deliver all the support needs of its Users. As the number of Users coming to the Centre increases and as the age profile rises, so does the space they need to manoeuvre with wheelchairs and other walking aids. The Management Team at D&DC identified a vacant piece of land adjacent to the current Centre. This land belongs to Highland Council, after a successful Community Asset Transfer (CAT) process, our application was approved by Highland Council Communities and Place Committee at their meeting on 23rd February, which created the springboard to move forward. Pre-application planning advice has also been sought from the Highland Council planning department. This land is also conveniently co-located with the local GP surgery, close to public transport links, local post office and general store and Trust Housing accommodation. Oberlanders, an architectural firm with extensive experience of working with and delivering community projects were commissioned to provide a design feasibility study for a new purpose-built Hub.

The current Centre has Emergency Cover Status, meaning that statutory services look to the D&DC to support local people and or the travelling public affected during road closures, heavy snowfall, power outages, or a local crisis. Given that climate change is increasing the frequency of naturally occurring devastating events highlights the need for better support facilities. This critical status is blended into the heart of the Jigsaw Project.

Design Team were appointed 11th March 2022 and are on track with the submission of the full planning application on 1st July 2022 and approval granted by The Highland Council on 6th December 2022. In tandem with the planning process D&DC are implementing their funding strategy. The Jigsaw Project will meet the increasing demand for services. These figures recorded, evidences the number of vulnerable people seeking support locally and across the South East Caithness (SEC). It is not anticipated that this demand will decline and indeed will only increase given that the population of SEC is ageing.

The legacy of our Jigsaw Project will see many positive outcomes: continual skills development and employment opportunities created, improved health outcomes and quality of life, enhanced social infrastructure and connections within and between neighbourhoods by coupling the necessary services into the backbone of its vision.

Building strong and inclusive communities is at the heart of the project with clear ambitions towards supporting more local people to play active roles in shaping their locality. Putting social value at the heart of regeneration and placemaking, unlocks new ways of working for people who live in the area. This development is a unique opportunity that will have a huge resulting impact, not only to the end Users of the Health & Wellbeing Hub, but also towards benefitting the economy. Local employment and infrastructure will be engaged and entwined from start to finish where possible.

D&DC acts a safety net catching those individuals in need, preventing and/or reducing the financial burden on statutory services. D&DC is recognised as a Centre of excellence delivering vital and relevant services to the community. The only Health & Wellbeing Hub of its sort in Caithness.

Dissolution:

(1) Subject to such regulatory requirements and consents which may apply to the distribution of the campaign's received donations applied to the charitable company's Jigsaw Project. On its dissolution of the Jigsaw Project, any net assets remaining after providing for all debts and liabilities shall on or before the dissolution of the project may be applied or transferred as the members determine by ordinary resolution in the following way

(a) by transfer to the charities core funding; for purposes altogether to provide future sustainability for charity.

(2) In no circumstances shall the net assets remaining be paid to or distributed among the members of the charitable company.