Our Place, Getting Going Benwell and Scotswood

Community Action Planning July 2014

Agenda

2pm • Welcome, Introductions, Context • Getting Going Phase• Proposal for Benwell and Scotswood• Timeframe for this phase

3pm• Identifying priorities and development groups• Next steps

Partners engaged

Partners

Riverside Centre Health Project Search Project

Millin Centre Pendower Good Neighbourhoods Project

RHWE SNCG

JET West End food bank

Success 4 all Patchwork Project

Scotswood Area Strategy Sure Start

St Margarets Church Scotswood Resident Association

ABC connections Northumbria Police

Newcastle City Council West End Girls Project

What is the Our Place Programme?

• Package of support to help neighbourhoods develop detailed plans for their local area

• First phase was to find out what priorities were• Second phase to develop detailed Operational

plans• 141 successful areas (Benwell and Scotswood

one of these)• 9 others in the North East (2 in Newcastle)

Partnership GroupMeeting

Design

Groups mtg

1

Design

Groups

mtg 2

Design

Groups mtg

3

Operational Plan

Skillsbridge Brokerage Services to all VCS partners

Advisor Pool to offer expertise and skill share

On-going communication to all partners

July August/September October/November

Identify priority themes Scope out activities and themesLogic chain models

Proposed approach for getting going phase for Benwell and Scotswood

Proposed Approach

• Partnership Meeting to discuss phase 2 and identify broad priority/ies

• Development groups (3) to be established• Roles and responsibilities of development

groups identified• Membership of development group discussed • Register VCS with SkillsBridge• Match to businesses to address issues

Role of Design Group/s

• Take the priority areas and consider key activities and services that have been proposed

• Prioritise these and identify 1-2 initiatives to be costed out in detail

• Develop these “ideas” into firm fully costed proposals outlining the proposed benefits they will bring to the area

Membership/Responsibilities of Design Group

• Key player in priority area • Able to commit one staff/volunteer to participate

fully in all groups• At least 3 sessions per group so looking at a

commitment of 6 hours • Staff/volunteer be able, willing, knowledgeable

about the service area• Chair? (VCS? SkillsBridge? Advisor?)

Advisor Expertise Pool

• Recruit 5-6 SkillsBridge advisors with expertise in relevant areas ( VCS, impact, priority area, capacity building, facilitation etc.)

• Could Chair groups? • Could help to facilitate groups?• Could sit in on groups and offer

advice/expertise?

Brokerage 121 support

• All VCS will be registered with SkillsBridge • Areas of need will be explored building on

priorities identified in Phase 1 or new ones• SkillsBridge will offer advisors to build capacity

and address project needs • Have already matched a few organisations• All part of helping to achieve VCS sustainability

Communication

• Weekly update to all partnership• Separate page on SkillsBridge website we will

use to keep things up to date• Keep events calendar updated• Other websites can link into the website

Partnership RolesRoles

VCS Organisations Identify Priority Themes to plug gapsScope out activities and services for the operational plan

SkillsBridge Fund applicant, facilitate and support development of operational planLink to businesses for skillshare and expertise , 121 support to VCS and for volunteering and placements.

Newcastle City Council, Community Services Team

Support the development of the Operational plan through provision of LA dataProvide links into wider NCC services and connect with relevant initiatives and other groupsOn-going discussions with VCS on various aspects of Operational plan

Other Partners Northumbria Police

Support the development of the Operational Plan through the provision of data and provide links to other initiatives etc.

Cost Benefit Analysis

• Our place keen on CBA• Mandatory for all groups to develop logic chains

(problem, solution, outcomes, impact)• Depending on complexity of programme might

request a full CBA• SkillsBridge will lead on this but more about this

in development groups

Timeline for Getting Going phase

• Submission of logic model 1st September• Submit Draft Operation plan – 21st November• Peer Review – November to mid January• Final sign off – February• DCLG to sign off in March 2015• Going Further phase April 2015

Resources and funding

• Going Further• Working with NCC and ward budgets to fund

identified projects• Sourcing other funding? Lotteries Reaching

Communities? Newcastle Fund?• Collaborative approach and separate VCS bids

Key benefits to partnership

Operational plan that will be a useful resource to use to bid for funders have conversations about funding etc.

VCS able to take advantage of opportunities

Level of involvementPartnership Meetings

Development Groups

E-mail group

Input to process and defining priorities

Service design and detailed scoping of initiatives

Ad hoc comments on progress, comments on developing plan etc.

Cascade information to other groups

Themes from Phase 1Themes Potential Activities

1 Skills for life, skills for work Basic skills supportBasic Household management skillsPersonal development Enterprising skillsESOL in besopoke contexts and environments

2 Routeways to employment and self-employment

Pre volunteering programmesVolunteering programmesPlacement programmesWork experience programmesPre apprenticeship programmesPre start animation, start up support

3 Advice guidance and support

Welfare rights workersCommunity Development workers/case workersAdvocacy work Handholding resources to support early stage work

4 Our Community, celebration, education, place

Places and spaces, celebration initiatives, community fund, music, arts and cultural activities, learning through play, no outsiders, intergenerational projects, health eating, waste reduction and recycling projects

Task 1

• Handouts (work in groups of 3-4) each group to focus on 1 priority area

• Is there anything missing from the priorities?

• How would you rate each of the priority themes

including any you identified as missing. High, Medium or Low.

Task 2

Reflecting on your organisation and your own work which of these themes would be most relevant for you/other staff or volunteer to get involved with and work in in partnership?

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