Who we are and what we do!Who we are and what we do!

Claire HilderClaire Hilder

Programme ManagerProgramme Manager

• The National Empowerment Partnership (NEP) is a programme from the Department for Communities and Local Government( CLG) committed to supporting and improving empowerment activities across England.

• It gathers evidence of effective community empowerment activities from across the country and promotes the positive benefits of involving communities in the decisions that affect them.

The Partnership:

• Currently there are 98 members

• Made up of people with expertise or interest in empowerment activities.

• Across statutory, voluntary and community sectors.

Partnership Purpose

– Acting as the hub for collecting and disseminating good practice on empowerment in the region

– Supporting Local Authorities across the region to improve on NI4,

- the % of people who feel they can influence services in their locality.

– To work with the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (RIEP) to support the delivery of empowerment activities.

– Influencing the development of policy and delivery on empowerment.

What have we done so far?

• Funded a series of projects aimed at testing a variety of models to help people and communities feel empowered.

• Funded several research projects looking into empowerment within the region

• Shared the learning through the SEREP website – www.serep.org.uk and through partnership meetings

So what’s next?

• Capture what Partners are delivering against the Framework and share it.

• Link to the work of the RIEP using the research and key areas identified

• Expand the partnership to include those delivering the Targeted Support Fund and Connecting Communities agendas

• 24th March partnership conference – “Working together to make life better”

• Launch the 2010-11 Action Plan

Community Empowerment is about people and government, working together to make life better