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Localism in Action – case studies, tips and tools from the South West | |
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A new downloadable booklet available from Creating Excellence: offers councillors, community groups and public service officers 52 pages of practical support on participatory budgeting, community assets, community led planning and more. See the full story on our empowerment pages
Read more... Published: Monday, October 31, 2011 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Empowerment |
Localism in Action – case studies, tips and tools from the South West | |
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Localism means more people having a say in how their communities are run, and a new guide available from Creating Excellence is designed to help Councillors, community groups and public service officers see that they get just that. Written by a team of professionals from local authorities and public services across the region, this 52 page online guide and booklet is packed with practical guidance and contact details for people who can offer help. Localism in Action contains case studies, tips ...
Read more... Published: Monday, October 31, 2011 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Community Grant Programme Opens | |
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Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations in the South West Region (excluding Cornwall) are set to benefit from a grant programme of over £600,000 aimed at moving people who are furthest removed from the labour market toward employment. South West Foundation, in partnership with the Learning Curve, will be opening the Community Grant Programme, which is funded by the Skills Funding Agency and the European Social Fund, on Monday 17 October 2011. The main focus of the programme is to award ...
Read more... Published: Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Community Empowerment in the South West - What we know and what's next | |
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Over 70 people gathered to discuss the past and future of empowerment in the region at this sell-out event on 29th June at the Albemarle Centre, Taunton, and more joined them online at a live streaming of the event via Empowerment Works. See the full story on our Empowerment pages
Read more... Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Empowerment |
Community Empowerment in the South West - What we know and what's next | |
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Over 70 people gathered to discuss the past and future of empowerment in the region at this sell-out event on 29th June at the Albemarle Centre, Taunton see attendance list , and more joined them online at Empowerment Works The morning looked back at the four years' work of Empowering Communities, the Regional Empowerment Partnership, and then forward at some empowerment techniques available for use. In the afternoon, keynote speakers and delegates considered how the future looks ...
Read more... Published: Monday, July 11, 2011 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Empowering Communities – Final Evaluation | |
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The last of three annual evaluations of the Empowering Communities partnership is now available. Carried out by members of the React consortium, it contains nine messages highlighting key lessons drawn from the work of the partnership over the last four years. The report also reflects on the 17 Targeted Support for Empowerment and Participation Improvement projects, which drew in additional funding from more than 47 associated organisations, and the main programmes aimed at community groups and local ...
Read more... Published: Monday, June 06, 2011 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Empowerment Good Practice Programme - Annual Report | |
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For three years the The Zebra Collective has been working with local authorities across the South West, as part of Empowering Communities, to provide skills training for local authority officers, enabling them to work more productively with their local communities. This report covers the last year of the programme, in which Zebra worked with five local authorities, trained 120 people, produced four case studies, developed an evaluation process for member development, a skills framework for community ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Can the sort of participatory approaches championed by Empowering Communities help improve our health? | |
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This report, from the Bristol Partnership, takes a look at an innovative workshop held last summer which assessed the likely health impacts of the emerging regeneration strategy for the Knowle West area of the city. The workshop was facilitated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaboration Centre, which is based at the University of the West of England (UWE). What is interesting is the way that the event brought together a wide cross-section of interests to grade the proposals against an agreed ...
Read more... Published: Friday, April 15, 2011 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Transition Fund announcement – good news for the South West | |
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South West voluntary sector organisations have been rewarded for their quick response to a new government funding initiative. The Transition Fund programme was launched last autumn with a deadline for applications early in 2011, and is aimed at helping "front-line service providers" from the region's community and voluntary sector organisations adapt to the massive changes in funding that have arisen from last year's government spending review. A total of £15m was available ...
Read more... Published: Friday, April 15, 2011 |
Category: News From Creating Excellence Topic: Empowerment |
Chief Executive - Community Council of Devon | |
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE Salary £38,042 - £43,288 Our vision is of active communities across Devon shaping their own futures, with improved opportunity and quality of life for all. Could you successfully lead our committed team to deliver this vision? Benefits include: Pension, flexi-time, 30 days leave For full details and an application pack please follow the link Closing date for applications: 9.00am Friday 25th March 2011 Interviews in Exeter: Monday 18th April 2011 Charity No: 1074047; ...
Read more... Published: Friday, March 04, 2011 |
Category: Jobs Topic: Empowerment |
Case Studies: 11 results for topic: Empowerment
Warminster Voices | |
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Using community radio to deepen local participation in Warminster's Area Board is the subject of the first of a new series of case studies available through Empowering Communities. Wiltshire Council's Warminster Community Area Manager initiated the idea of recording the voices of local people to be played back at the meetings. Warminster's community-led radio station, WCR, welcomed the idea and carried out a year-long pilot project funded by the Area Board capturing and recording local ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Empowerment Works in a Small Rural Town - Lyme Regis Development Trust | |
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The Lyme Regis Development Trust is an excellent example of an organisation which has successfully engaged and empowered local people to get involved in local issues and mobilised opportunities and resources for the community. Their story highlights the importance of community led, locally rooted organisations in enabling people to take up empowerment opportunities and demonstrates just what can be achieved when investment is made in such ‘anchor' organisations. Click here for case study
Read more... Published: Monday, November 15, 2010 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Gloucestershire Neighbourhood Coordination Groups Case Study | |
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This study looks at the Gloucestershire Empowerment Project; part of a Gloucestershire County Council initiative to work with the police and voluntary and community organisations to help empower local residents, particularly from hard to reach groups, through neighbourhood meetings.It considers how an individual's training benefited the St Pauls Neighbourhood Coordination Group in Cheltenham. Case study
Read more... Published: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Empowerment Works for the BME Community -Black Development Agency | |
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This case study describes how empowerment training in Bristol by the Black Development Agency led to positive changes in the local Somali community. Click here for the case study
Read more... Published: Monday, November 08, 2010 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Community Researchers in Weston-super-Mare | |
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This course developed for a recently formed Parents' Group has been evaluated to show evidence of very real change in the confidence and skills of the participants, and an ongoing group ready to act as advocates for the community. It shows how, with a little support, a group can move from focusing solely on social activities to being a real force for change. This case study describes a Community Researchers training course held for the Oldmixon Parents' Group on the Oldmixon Estate in ...
Read more... Published: Monday, June 08, 2009 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Participatory Proofing – Getting policy makers to understand the needs of single parents | |
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Single parents in Bristol have helped mould and deliver a ground-breaking national project to identify the barriers hindering their efforts to get and keep good-quality jobs, define solutions - and take the message direct to policy-makers, from councils to the corridors of Whitehall... The three year ‘Participatory One Parent Proofing' project, organised by the Single Parent Action Network, aimed to give single parents a voice in the decision-making processes which have a profound effect on ...
Read more... Published: Monday, March 30, 2009 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Neighbourhood clean up 'quick wins', Bournemouth | |
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'Quick wins' were an early priority for what was last year voted the country's most successful neighbourhood management scheme. By tackling eyesores like litter, fly tipping and over-run gardens, Springbourne and Boscombe West Neighbourhood Management persuaded residents in the two Bournemouth neighbourhoods that this project was not just a regeneration talking shop. Real change was under way. But underlying the immediately visible achievements was a carefully designed strategy to deal with ...
Read more... Published: Saturday, October 02, 2004 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
In safe hands: neighbourhood management governance, Bournemouth | |
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The approach to governance adopted by Springbourne and Boscombe West neighbourhood management pathfinder has allowed it to tap into a deep-rooted sense of community pride, remarkable in an area with a highly transient population. Residents form a majority on its board of 15. But though they all serve in a voluntary capacity, the pathfinder was keen to ensure that their aspirations and priorities reflected those of other local residents. Last year, four of the eight resident positions were put to the ...
Read more... Published: Saturday, October 02, 2004 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Dorset POPP – fulfilling the needs, desires and aspirations of older people | |
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Dorset's Partnership with Older People Project, or POPP, is a complex programme driven by and aiming to fulfil the needs, desires, and aspirations of the older people in the county. Its vision is ‘to build supportive communities to enable older people to remain living in their own homes for as long as they wish' by developing responsive and appropriate services and activities at a localised level. That's a sweeping ambition - but in its first three years of life, POPP has already made ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: People, communities and living - Matched under a secondary topic |
Working together for empowerment in a rural town | |
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For more than a decade, the Lyme Regis Development Trust has been galvanising local people to get involved in campaigning for community projects and improvements. It has scored many notable successes - and has also demonstrated the headway that can be made on local empowerment when town councils work with and through the Voluntary and Community Sector.Working together for empowerment in a rural town For more than a decade, the Lyme Regis Development Trust has been galvanising local people to get ...
Read more... Published: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Rural communities - Matched under a secondary topic |
Downloads: 98 results for topic: Empowerment
Localism in Action Guide | |
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Localism in Action - The Guide Read more... |
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Localism in Action: Flyer | |
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Localism in Action: Flyer - overview of the main Guide Read more... |
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Localism in Action: Section 5 - Making it Happen | |
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Localism in Action: Section 5 - Making it Happen Read more... |
File size: 636 Kb Downloads: 69 Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Localism in Action: Section 4 - Communities Taking the Lead | |
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Localism in Action: Section 3 - Community Led Planning and Neighbourhood Plans | |
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Localism in Action: Section 3 - Community Led Planning and Neighbourhood Plans Read more... |
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Localism in Action: Section 2 - Community Assets | |
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Localism in Action: Section 2 - Community Assets Read more... |
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Localism in Action: Section 1 - Participatory Budgeting | |
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Localism in Action: Section 1 - Participatory Budgeting Read more... |
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Localism in Action: Index, Introduction, Sections 6 and 7 | |
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Localism in Action Guide - Sections: Index; Introduction; Section 6 (Partners); Section 7 (Resources, Website and Contacts). Read more... |
File size: 930 bytes Downloads: 59 Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
Empowerment Good Practice Programme - Annual Report 2010-11 | |
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For three years the The Zebra Collective has been working with local authorities across the South West, as part of Empowering Communities, to provide skills training for local authority officers, enabling them to work more productively with their local communities. This report covers the last year of the programme. For further information about the empowerment skills training offered by The Zebra Collective, contact: info@zebra.coop www.zebra.coop 01752 395131 Read more... |
File size: 2 MB Downloads: 101 Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
SW Transition Fund Success | |
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South West voluntary sector organisations have been rewarded for their quick response to a new government funding initiative. The Transition Fund programme was launched last autumn with a deadline for applications early in 2011, and is aimed at helping "front-line service providers" from the region's community and voluntary sector organisations adapt to the massive changes in funding that have arisen from last year's government spending review. A total of £15m was available ... Read more... |
File size: 38 bytes Downloads: 129 Category: Empowering Communities Topic: Empowerment |
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