Take their ‘first steps’ to making use of community rights Improve their economic well being Takeover ownership/management of community assets Influence and make decisions on how public services are shaped and delivered Influence how public money is spent in neighbourhoods Support parish/town councils take on delivery of neighbourhood level services Develop neighbourhood plans and bring forward community led developments Extends and builds on DCLG’s funded programme of work around the Community Rights, Neighbourhood Planning and Our Place
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Take their ‘first steps’ to making use of community rights Improve their economic well being Takeover ownership/management of community assets Influence and make decisions on how public services are
shaped and delivered Influence how public money is spent in neighbourhoods Support parish/town councils take on delivery of
neighbourhood level services Develop neighbourhood plans and bring forward community
led developments
Extends and builds on DCLG’s funded programme of work around the Community
Rights, Neighbourhood Planning and Our Place
My Community – the opportunities in context
2015/16-2017/18 • Neighbourhood Planning & Community Buildings
(£8.5m Yr1, 7.94m Yr2 & £7.42m Yr3) £25m in total for grants & direct support
• Our Place & First Steps (£1.3m for grants in Yr1)• Community Ownership & Management of Assets
(£500k for grants in Yr1)• Community Economic Development (£250k for grants
• Community-led – written by or under the control of the community
• More influence – part of the statutory development plan
• More relevant – focused on the neighbourhood needs
• Create a dialogue – between organisations, departments and partners
• Allocate sites – develop criteria and choose sites for development
Why bother?
Who is it for?
• Grants will only be awarded to town or parish councils or an incorporated designated neighbourhood forum in the case of groups producing neighbourhood plans and NDOs.
• Unincorporated neighbourhood forums will either need to incorporate or channel funding through an incorporated body (e.g. local authority)
• All groups writing a neighbourhood plan or neighbourhood development order will be eligible to apply for up to £8,000 in grant.
• Groups facing more complex issues can apply for specific packages of technical support where needed, and may also be eligible for further £6,000 in grant.
What support are you eligible for?
• Neighbourhood Forums (where there is no Parish or Town Council)
• Clusters of parishes• High growth areas• Deprived areas• Business led neighbourhood plans• Populations of over 25,000• Groups preparing a neighbourhood development order
Groups with complex issues:
Community Buildings
• Community Right to Build Orders can be used to decide on the kind of community buildings you want, and where you want them.
• They allow you to achieve automatic planning permission through a vote at a local referendum.
GrantsCommunity Buildings Pre feasibility Grant
• Between £1,000 and £5,000• Assess feasibility of a project prior to submitting a
Community Right to Build Order or (in the case of community-led housing projects only), a traditional planning application.
Community Buildings Project Support Grant• Between £5,000 and £40,000• Covers costs of moving a project to the point of
submitting a Community Right to Build Order or (in the case of community-led housing projects only), a traditional planning application.
Our Place & First Steps
1 in 16 of the England’s population now live in an Our Place Area
What is Our Place?
Local partners within a neighbourhood coming together with local people to identify the issues that matter most to them and working together to develop a plan to tackle these issues and reshape services to better meet their needs.
Neighbourhood Community Budget’s programme - 12 NCB pilots piloted this community led approach in 2012/13.
DCLG commissioned Our Place 2014/15 to deliver a programme (£4.3 M) to support a further 100+ areas develop an operational plan for March 2015.
Who is it for?
Key Eligibility Criteria
You must:
• Be based and working in England• Be an incorporated organisation • Have an annual turnover of £50k+• Have a proposal focused on a specific
geographical area• Have a track record of working in
partnership• Be experienced in community
participation • Be willing to work on and produce an
operational plan by February 2016
“ We want to alter the relationship between service providers and users. Not only do we want local people to benefit but we also want them to be empowered to be active agents in the community.”
Katie Barron, Communities 4 Kids, Our Place Area
What’s involved?You will receive;
• A small grant of £8,000 to help you prepare your operational plan
• Relationship management support (4.5 days)• Training and support opportunities e.g. community co-design, CBA, logic modelling• Access to shared learning
materials• The opportunity to apply for
Breaking New Ground (additional £4,000 plus 3 days RM support
• The chance to be part of a nation wide network (MyCommunity Hubs and Champions Network)
In return we ask for your commitment to:
• Develop a logic model by July 2015
• Prepare a final operational plan by February 2016
• Attend scheduled events/ activities
• Participate in peer review process• Network with your fellow areas
What’s the timeline?
Activity Dates
Our Place open to applications 1st April 2015
Application deadline however applications will be assessed on a rolling basis 8th May 2015
Notification of awards (rolling grant panels) & payment of first instalment i.e. £6500 if £8000 grant award.
April & May 2015
Relationship management allocated to areas April & May 2015
Submission of logic model 24th July 2015
Submission of application for Breaking New Ground (BNG) TBC
Notification of BNG award & £4000 BNG payment TBC
Submission of draft operational plan plus grant report 30th October
2015
Second & final instalment of grant payment 6th November 2015
Peer Review period 2nd-30th November 2015
Submission of final operational plans to Locality 19 February 2015
Celebratory Event 23 March 2015
Final date for sign off of operational plans by DCLG 31 March 2015
What is First Steps?Enable communities who have never been involved in Community rights activity……take their first stepCommunities have the chance to think about their area – what they like, what they don’t like and how they would like to change things
A programme giving communities support, training and advice/mentoring to create an action plan in their area
Why First Steps?
Who is it for?
Key eligibility criteriaYou must be:
• Based in England• Be a voluntary or community group• Have a turnover of under £50k a year• Be willing to work on and produce a community
action plan by February 2016• If you are not incorporated, find an incorporated
organisation to be your grant fund holder• Priority will be given to areas that are deprived
What’s involved?We are looking for people with energy, good networks within their area, and ideas about their area
You will receive;• Relationship management support• A small grant of £2,500 to help you prepare your
community action plan• Training and support opportunities• The chance to be part of a nation wide network
• In return, we ask for your commitment to;• Tell us how things are going via short blog• Prepare a community action plan by February 2016• Network with your fellow areas
What’s the timeline?
• 1st April : Applications go live on mycommunity.org.uk• 8th May: Applications close.• End of May : First Steps areas will be notified of
success.• Relationship managers will be assigned. • End of June: Induction events will take place. • July/September/October: Training and support
available. • Start of September : Blog update due. • November 23rd : First draft plan due. • December/January : Peer review process takes place.• February 2016 : Final plans due. • March 2016: Celebration event and programme ends.
Calne
Calne
Lost major employer in 1984 causing high unemployment
Phases of recovery since
Low tourist activity despite location
Rapid population growth
Lots of local spend going elsewhere
Disjointed town centre
Pockets of high deprivation
Project - Aims
Boost tourist activity
Increase local employment
Increase retail and tourist spend
Decrease deprivation
Project - Outcomes
• Reclaiming Calne as the home of the Wiltshire Cured pork products
• Developing a heritage quarter and access to heritage
• Developing the A4 as a tourist route
Where we they now
Clear about vision and objectives
Clear about gaps in Operational Plan and what needs to
be done
A great range of involvement and skills analysis done
Task Groups in place working on The Calne Cure, the A4 Tourist, Route, the Heritage Quarter and Process Management
Needing to sort a delivery vehicle
Spreading the word
Reviewing the horizon
Getting on with it
Community Ownership and Management of Assets
2015/16• Will support 50 Partnership Areas in England to develop joint strategies and action plans for ambitious multiple community asset ownership and management projects and/or complex/ground-breaking single asset transfer projects that will produce novel and replicable learning for other places.
• Applications for direct support will open from 1 April where a clear commitment to partnership working can be demonstrated.
• Direct support will consist of up to 10 days of dedicated relationship management support from an experienced broker to help areas to develop joint strategies and action plans, with clear milestones and deliverables, and up to 6 additional days of consultancy assistance to undertake business planning.
• Pre-feasibility grants of up to £10,000 per organisation will be available to organisations within the designated Partnership Areas.
Chat to experts, take part in discussions, get coaching and mentoring support through the forum.
Peer learning hubs - an opportunity to meet with likeminded people in your area to network, debate, learn, share ideas and start to address challenges and issues in your community.
Access to free events that look at the tools available to make changes in your community, such as the Community Rights and support programmes.
My Community Network e-newsletter, a regular update of news, learning events, stories, resources and much more.
