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A presentation prepared for a Barrow Cadbury Trust Community Resilience Workshop on 31 October 2012 in Birmingham.
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Nick Bird, Urban ForumDonna Roberts, Dudley MBCLorna Prescott, Dudley CVS
Urban Forum were concerned that the government’s new Community Rights would not be taken up equally between
different communities
We secured funding from Barrow
Cadbury for an action research
project to take place in Dudley in
conjunction with Dudley CVS (an Urban
Forum member)
Aims:• To assess the perceptions
of Dudley community groups with regard to Community Rights• To involve community
groups in planning how they could be implemented locally• To build better
relationships between the local authority and community groups
Approach:• Research plus
engagement• Co-design between
community groups and Dudley council• Use of community
venues, shared meals etc to encourage participation and ownership
Partners:• Urban Forum• Dudley CVS • Dudley Metropolitan
Council• Dudley Community
Partnership
Testing the appetite for Community
Rights(August & September 2011)
Seven focus groups were held to dig deeper into issues around services, assets and neighbourhood planning and to recruit people into the next
stage of the project
We carried out surveys at events and an online survey amongst community groups in Dudley to test awareness of, and appetite for, Community Rights. We also asked about barriers to take up and support needs.
Digging deeper (September & October
2011)
In two ‘Community Kitchen’ workshops participants heard inspiring stories of community projects from across the world and learned about tools and techniques for asset led community development
An ‘Our Society Our Solutions’ group was set up
and met three times to generate proposals around assets and service delivery
based on what we had learned from our research
Getting some inspiration
(November 2011)
Coming up with our own recipes
(November 2011 to January 2012)
M.A.S.H
The OSOS group’s proposals were framed within the concept of MASH – Managing Assets and Services Holistically.
This was based around principals of collaborative working and using ALL assets more effectively
Tasting session with decision makers
(February 2012)
Members of OSOS and the project steering group met with
members of Dudley Council’s Corporate Board (including the
Chief Executive) to discuss proposals and seek agreement
for going forward
0 25 50 75 100
Right to Build
Right to Challenge
Right to Buy
Neighbourhood Planning
A great dealThe basicsLittle or nothing
Testing the appetite: our survey
How much do you feel you know about...
Appetite was low. Perhaps due to gaps in knowledge. There was some curiosity and interest, as well as concerns and suggestions of what barriers might be.
“I think the thing is, in Dudley you won’t have groups that have got
enough money to buy anything by themselves. And if the windows of opportunity to buy are quite tight, you’re not going to have enough time to form the partnerships or put in the bids to get funding to
enable you to do it. So they might be giving us a right, but it’s a right that is not practically workable for
groups in Dudley.”
“I’m just wondering whether there might be a way of saying, ‘Well, do we
have to go as far as a challenge?’... how would the council feel about working with us to bring that into
the community, avoiding the actual process of the
challenge and the tender?’”
Digging deeper: focus groups
Getting some inspiration: workshops with Tessy Britton
Coming up with our own recipes: Our Society Our Solutions group
Checking back: follow up survey
Awareness of community rights had increased over the 8 months, and appetite had increased. The final survey reinforced the action research discussions - suggesting that there was a far greater appetite for involvement in service design, and for using buildings and land through a whole range of arrangements.
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Right to Challenge
Right to Bid
Aware and am interested in using the opportunityAware/heard ofNot aware
MASH Lab Launch event in AprilPiloting the restaurant with a tasting menu
Fusion cuisine a whole system approach
MASH Lab event in JulyBringing chefs together
We are creative: connecting many new and existing resources and ideas to make entirely new things.
We are collaborative: boosting the potential and success of our work by collective and collaborative ways of working.
We are empowering:our approach to collaboration is uses the 5 Community Empowerment Dimensions.
We are learning:social learning, whole systems, reflection and evaluation are being embedded in our approach.
A moveable feast!
We’re linking our MASH prompted approach and projects to related activity in Dudley which is using asset based, whole system, empowering and collaborative approaches.
‣East Coseley Big Local‣Ageing Well‣Community-led asset
based wellbeing projects (JNSA/JSAA)
Enabling collaboration
In September 2012 we bought together people who could take on roles as enablers of collaboration.
We now have enablers supporting 6 collaborative projects working towards our community wellbeing outcomes.
We’re busy MASHing!
www.communityrightsdudley.wordpress.com
www.creativecollaborationdudley.wordpress.com