15 th December 2010Generations Together - Reading Beth Johnson Foundation Network Meeting 15 th December 2010 Friends House, London Lorna Stanley Andrew

15th December 2010 Generations Together - Reading

Beth Johnson FoundationNetwork Meeting 15th December 2010

Friends House, London

Lorna Stanley

Andrew Haydon


• A series of community and schools-led projects.• Festival of Ages 2010.• Involving 1,300 volunteers - 650 older, 650

younger.• Benefiting a further 1,000 recipients and many

more wider participants.• Targeting the most deprived areas within

Reading.• Delivery being managed by the voluntary sector,

reporting quarterly to our Local Authority, Reading Borough Council (RBC).


About Reading


Our Projects

• 4 separate work-streams:– The Arts– Sports and Leisure– Community and Democracy– Learning Together

• 21 projects accepted in formal Commissioning Rounds

• 10 projects completed


Design our Logo Project


What’s Working Well (1)• Effective partnership working between Age

UK Berkshire, Central Berkshire Education Business Partnership (CBEBP) and Reading Borough Council.

• Safeguarding risk assessment process in place.

• Local evaluation methodology agreed and successfully piloted.


What’s Working Well (2)• 5 Commissioning Rounds held to give

projects the go-ahead.• PR activity has resulted in some good

coverage since our official media launch in March.

• Festival of Ages 2010: 2nd - 9th October. • 1357 Volunteers involved in 21 projects• 1406 Wider participants• 225 Recipients


Challenges We’ve Faced (1)• Festival of Ages

– Buy in from community groups

• Performances at the festival

• Activities for the week

– Time of year

– Venue

• Celebrity commitment for festival


Challenges We’ve Faced (2)• Community groups understanding

Intergenerational work

• Consent from parents for under 16s to participate in evaluation

• Setting up Networks and Forums

• Older Volunteer Recruitment– Hard to reach groups– Males


Local Evaluation• Activity outsourced to specialist local evaluator.• Volunteer questionnaires to be completed by all

at their final project sessions.• Close-out evaluations being completed by

Delivery Leaders.• Focus groups of Delivery Leaders and

volunteers planned in December/January• Photographs taken, where we have consent.• DVD produced with views of volunteers, project

partners and Generations Together team.


Festival of Ages• Gala Day celebrations

• Let’s Sing

• Weeks events:– Fit as a fiddle allotment project– New Town Primary–Poetry and music– Broad Street Mall Open Day– Blessed Hugh–Tea and Performances + Choir– Ranikhet Primary-Tai Chi and lunch


Next Steps• Continuous Project Management of our

existing projects and PR activity to raise our profile.

• Ensure Reading take on the intergenerational concept for the future.

• Achieve our overall targets.• Develop new intergenerational ideas

specifically targeted at hard-to-reach groups.


Contact Us

• [email protected] 0118 902 3598 Generations Together, Age Concern Berkshire, Huntley House, 119 London Street, Reading, Berkshire. RG1 4QA.

• Lorna Southwood – Project Officer – [email protected] - 07795481764

• Andrew Haydon –Schools Liaison Officer - [email protected] – 0118 984 6947

Documents

15 th December 2010Generations Together - Reading Beth Johnson Foundation Network Meeting 15 th December 2010 Friends House, London Lorna Stanley Andrew