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Pioneering partnerships with communities Neil Berry, Locality Chris Chinnock, Kirklees Council Sian Rogers, Calderdale Council
Pioneering partnerships
with communities
Neil Berry, Locality
Chris Chinnock, Kirklees Council
Sian Rogers, Calderdale Council
National network organisation
•500+ members
•Community-led organisations
•Ambitious and enterprising
Support, advice, learning
Advocacy
Large-scale DCLG localism and devolution programmes
Locality
Builds on Community Rights Advice and Support
Service
April 2015 – March 2016 (may be extended)
• Communications and engagement ...
• Information, advice, guidance on community control opps
• Sustainable My Community Network
– Just Act (CDF)
– Face to face networking through the My Community Hubs
– My Community Champions network
Advice and Networks
(MyCommunity.org.uk)
A presentation to:
LGA
Chris Chinnock –
Community Capacity
Building Project Manager
Communities, Transformation & Change
30th June 2015
Local Context
Three distinct areas:
• North Kirklees – large Towns Dewsbury,
Batley
• Huddersfield - the largest town in
Kirklees with about 137,000 residents
• South Kirklees - small towns such as
Holmfirth, Slaithwaite and Denby Dale.
Kirklees - West Yorkshire
A shared Language…..
Community Capacity:
The level at which people actively participate in the life of their local area, either as individuals through groups, organisations or networks.
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD):
Asks…. What can this community do itself to achieve its own goals and dreams?
Engagement Principles
Everyone has something (a skill, knowledge or talent) that they could contribute to the common good of their Community Everyone cares about something, this is their motivation to act or their passion
Sian Rogers, Policy & Projects Manager
Calderdale – many places not
one place
Builds on hugely successful existing programme
Three years
£3,455,000 – majority in grants to groups and technical
specialist support.
Support communities to develop NPs, NDOs, CRtBOs
and Community-led planning applications
Detailed advice, build confidence, develop expertise
Programme open now
Neighbourhood planning and
Community Right to Build
Your help...
• Encourage groups/communities to engage and use
support on offer
• Keen to involve and reach deprived, rural, less
affluent areas,
• Real opportunity to inform and shape
neighbourhoods
Neighbourhood planning and
Community Right to Build
Partnerships between local public bodies/community
groups to develop multiple asset transfers or single,
ground-breaking/complex asset projects
April 2015-March 2016
£1.5million, mostly in grants and direct support
50 partnership areas to be supported
Closing date 3 July
Community Ownership and
Management of Assets
Community Asset Transfer…. • 2014/15 – Five Community Asset
Transfers
• Capacity Building support provided to 30
VCS groups
• £50,000 in development grants to
groups to participate in AT
• 2015/16 – rolling out across Kirklees,
supporting Libraries review, COMA
Builds on original Our Place Programme (118 OPs) & Community
Budgeting pilots
• Our Place:
– Partnerships between community orgs, public services, local businesses, VCS
orgs and local people
– Co-create, re-shape, design or develop local services
– Exploring/implementing opportunities for pooling or devolving
resources/budgets.
• First Steps:
– Groups new to localism/community rights and who want to build/develop
capacity
£1.3m in grants/direct support to groups Apr 2015 – Mar 2016
Our Place and First Steps
We need YOUR help...
• More involvement from local government in OP
• Closer networking between communities and LAs
• Involvement in peer learning welcomed
• Mentors/champions from Las
• Sustainable and long lasting relationships
• Sharing of information/data OP
Our Place and First Steps
New initiative for local community groups/orgs to shape
economies for local benefit
April 2015-March 2016
£1m largely in grants and direct support to groups
Recruit and support 50 CED areas
Community Economic
Development
Community anchors – driving
locality working
Why take the risk?
• Bespoke & responsive business support
• Development of new resource hubs
• Facilitation of the community hubs peer network,
and commissioning of 4 hubs in “Staying Well”
• Supporting hubs to secure contracts (£8.2m)
• Attracting inward investment (£70k)
• Putting Calderdale on the national map through
national programmes
Skills and employment
Health and wellbeing
Our Place
Supporting people to do more
for themselves….. No set Criteria and open to individuals - in 2014 It’s Up To You took place across 8
neighbourhoods and provided a platform for:
50 ideas to come forward
624 people took part in voting
40 of these were successful to a total of £17,243 allocated
1,350 people engaged through the projects and ideas as a result
In 2015/16….
Rolled out across Kirklees:
20 events held so far with over £40,000 being allocated to over 200 projects led by local people
Developing PB model for District Committees to assist Cllrs in setting local priorities
www.mycommunity.org.uk
www.locality.org.uk
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