20th May, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
When, shortly after the lockdown started, a 98-year-old resident contacted Stevenage Borough Council to say that she had been told she did not fit the criteria for help with getting a food delivery, the Communities and Neighbourhoods team knew that something had to be done. Although official help channels had been set up, they were ...
6th March, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
The council worked with local residents and cultural sector partners in Stevenage to create a cultural strategy to draw together the artistic and heritage ambitions for Britain’s first New Town as it launches a major regeneration programme and new era for the town. The council worked closely with Arts Council England to undertake a strategy. ...
6th March, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
Following the launch of its City Plan, which aims to create a healthy, vibrant and dynamic city for all by 2030, it was clear that the Council must also work within communities to improve neighbourhoods from within, leaving no residents behind or disadvantaged. Sunderland City Council developed a strategy to engage with all residents which ...
10th October, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Brent Community Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferencing (CMARAC) provides the opportunity for agencies to come together to support vulnerable individuals living in Brent and help to enhance the services currently available. Their Case Study: Mr Jones was referred to CMARAC by a local support group who believed he was being financially exploited by people known ...
4th October, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Brent Hubs aim to build resilience into local communities; reducing long term dependency on services. They offer alternative ways for Brent residents to connect with local organisations and each other, to access information advice and support, and to use community space to develop ideas and activities that enhance the local area. The Brent Hubs model ...
4th October, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
The health, well-being and life opportunities of children and young people in disadvantaged communities are much worse than of their peers in wealthier communities. The greatest underused asset in the lives of children and young people is fathers. Communities and child-related services and organisations tend to focus – and put most pressure – on mothers. ...
28th August, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
The Tameside Armed Services Community (TASC) is the partner to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council in delivering the Armed Forces Covenant. The Armed Forces Covenant was signed by Tameside Council at Armed Forces Day 2012. Since its formal inception in 2016, TASC has remained a not for profit group formed from the armed forces community with ...
20th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Harnessing the power of community to build strong local partnerships A growing movement A movement is gathering pace. Up and down the country councils and communities are coming together to transform their places. More and more local authorities are moving away from bureaucratic commissioning and big outsourcing contracts. Instead they are unlocking the power of ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Re-imagining better ways to live in our cities Bristol City Council is making sites available across the city to test and deliver innovative and affordable housing solutions over the next five years, in a bid to find new ways to tackle a housing crisis. As part of the city’s Housing Festival – a five year ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
The PSTA are supporting Somerset County Council and NHS Somerset CCG to work together, using local projects to influence a system change towards prevention, early intervention and joined-up working. Three cohorts of 30 have completed a Somerset Academy so far, and a fourth is now underway. The county and its partners have been looking to ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
In 2018 the Co-operative College received a grant from The Co-operative Foundation through the #iwill fund to deliver a pilot project to tackle youth loneliness in Greater Manchester. We were asked to look at how we could expand this project to other communities across the country and took the opportunity to work with Co-operatives UK ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Rochdale is the birthplace of the co-operative movement and the town is currently undergoing a co-operative resurgence. The Co-operative College is playing a key role in supporting Rochdale Council, other anchor institutions and the local community, to draw on learnings from its co-operative heritage to develop a fairer town for everyone. Alongside the Council, Rochdale ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
“a measure of a city’s greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and its squares”[1] From 1st April 2019 Newcastle became the first major city in the UK to hand over its parks and allotments to an independent charitable trust that will sustain our treasured parks for ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
The past decade has seen increases in rates of food poverty across the country. Over the last decade, incomes after housing costs have fallen and food prices have risen in real terms. For many low income families this has meant that it has been real struggle to provide good quality, nutritious meals for their children. ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Generations are coming together across the Royal Borough of Greenwich with a series of activities bringing nursery children together with elderly residents. The benefits of intergenerational activities, such as reducing social isolation and fostering community links, have been known for quite a while now. The Council’s Early Years’ service has brought together a number of ...
18th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Telford & Wrekin Council has experienced significant cuts in funding from central government and has had to make some difficult decisions in terms of how services will be delivered in the future. These decisions have been coupled with a commitment to continue to support those that are most vulnerable and to work in partnership with ...
18th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
There is a long legacy, in Rochdale, of citizen involvement in the development, delivery and leadership of services. In 2017, a group of citizens and system leaders got together to think about the implications of devolution in Greater Manchester and the reform of public services. They agreed that it might be worthwhile to take action ...
16th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Community involvement in Oldham means more than asking residents for their views. We’re empowering local people to take ownership, as part of our ambition to create a co-operative borough where everyone does their bit, and everybody benefits. Projects include: VEG IN THE PARK – a grassroots project OLDHAM FOOD NETWORK – a co-operative approach GREEN ...
16th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Putting residents at the heart of decision making is fundamental to Norwich City Council’s approach to cooperative working and opportunities to put this into practice are explored whenever we get the chance. So when the local CCG came to us with a pot of funding and asked how they use it to create a whole ...
16th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Love Your Street aims to improve environmental and housing standards across six inner city wards with the highest proportion of migrant populations. Issues such as littering, fly-tipping and poor waste containment exist across all areas of the city to varying extents. However, the problems are most acute and are most regularly reported and addressed as ...
