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Our Place – Highfield’s Estate
Welcome
Development Event
Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Our Place – General Information
• National Programme - funded by DCLG• Run by Locality in association with the
LGA• Few others involved i.e. New Economy
Community Development Foundation
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Our Place – Context
• Services not joined up at local level• Services often impersonal complex
confusing many providers• Services – reactive focusing on todays
problems with little emphasis on preventing those of tomorrow
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Our Place – National Goal
• To build on know how, capacity, confidence and capability within a neighbourhood strengthens leadership and governance and create opportunity for local people to have greater influence and power over how local public monies are spent
• Development of a sustainable model / approach for communities to influence and design local public services
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Our Place – Pioneers
• Programme pilot in 12 areas across UK• Some areas were led by parish councils
others local authorities and some by 3rd sector organisations
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Our Place – Highfield’s Estate Halesowen
• CfED made application in January 2014• Highfield’s chosen because of challenges
and connections• Several pieces of community engagement
activities undertaken on estate between 2010 and 2013. i.e. community organisers and mapping exercise
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Our Place – What have we done so far?• Between April & July 2014 a Getting Ready
Grant of £3k was used to:- Undertake almost 200 listening- Host an Appreciating Inquiry event attended
by mainly local people- Several meetings with partners and
communities- Use of census 12 data
• Prepared & submit Develop Strategy
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Our Place – Development Strategy
• Over arching aim:- To improve
community cohesion, health & well-being and education of young people
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Our Place – Development Strategy• Ambitions:
- Empowering communities to be engaged & involved in decision making
- Enabling communities to be engaged in activities that improve skills, self-esteem & Health & Well-being
- Bringing people together to create a community that address needs of young people, transform environment, housing conditions & break down barriers
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Our Place – Highfield’s Estate Priorities
• Environment & housing• Community cohesion & community space• Young people• Skills & employment
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Our Place – Logic Model
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Our Place: Highfield’s Estates Project Activities
• Window boxes• Yemeni young people football team• Newsletters• Shopping trolley• Environment • Consultation with young people
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