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Our Empowering Communities work includes:
Supporting Community Reps on the Partnership Board
Encouraging
wider participation throughout the community
Active Communities Research
Programme
Supporting Community Reps on the Partnership Board
Craigmillar Social Inclusion Partnership is the main strategic body
working toward community regeneration in Craigmillar. The Partnership
board includes representatives from a number of agencies including the
City of Edinburgh Council & NHS Lothian. Four local residents also sit
on the board; elected from Craigmillar Community Council and Craigmillar
Regeneration Forum, they play a major role in the day to day operations
of the Partnership, chairing various sub group meetings and representing
the Partnership at external events/conferences etc.
The CBP’s project ensures that the community reps are
fully resourced to undertake this demanding role. Through this project,
they have their own fully-equipped office with
development and administrative support. To find out more contact Mike on
mike@cbp.org or click below to read updates on what is happening with
the partnership.
COMMUNITY REPS COLUMN
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Encouraging wider participation throughout the community
The Empowering Communities initiative also
works to support wider groups in representative and campaigning
activities. This includes support to Craigmillar Community Council,
offering general advice to help members fully participate in meetings;
along with specific guidance to ensure appropriate community
consultation takes place.
Support is also provided to Craigmillar
Older Peoples Forum, which represents the interests of Craigmillar’s
elderly population. The forum was set up as a result of the ‘Older
People Make a Difference’ conference which was held in December 2002.
The forum is still going strong, boasting over 80 members.
Finally, we undertake a range of work to support young
people to make themselves heard. Recent work in this area included a
research project focusing upon how local services include young people
in their decision making processes. Involving partnership work with a
host of other agencies, this project culminated in the production of a
report titled ‘A word to the wise?’ We are currently discussing the best
way to follow up the recommendations made in the report.
Small Places Big Issues, click
here
A Word to the Wise, click
here
A Word to the Wise (Young Peoples'
Copy), click
here
Snakes and Ladders, click
here
For further info, contact Mike Bell at
mike@cbp63.org
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Active
Communities Research, Learning and Training Programme
This
is a 2 year project funded by the European Social Fund.
A researcher, James Henderson, and the rest of the staff
team at the Craigmillar Capacity Building Project, are
working with local volunteers, activists and residents,
as well as local groups and organisations, to develop
a relevant programme of learning and training for people
who are active in this community.
Research report: The first year of work
has focused on research with local active people into
the skills and knowledge that they need for community
participation and community action. The Craigmillar Learning
for Community Participation and Action report covers a
wide variety of areas of skills and knowledge including:
understanding the diversity of community participation,
campaigning, work with people, organising, community organisations
and initiatives, lifelong learning, participation and
partnership-working, regeneration, local decision-making
and the wider context. For the full final report click
on ‘final research report’ below.
Training courses: The second year of
work has focused on developing and piloting with local
people and local organisations 4 training courses (modules)
– these are ‘Understanding Your Community’,
‘Understanding Community Regeneration’, ‘Working
With People in Your Community’ and ‘Working
Within Community Groups and Organisations’. For
more information on these training courses click on ‘Guides
for training courses’ below.
Sharing learning: The project is also seeking
to support the sharing of community learning across communities.
Smaller ‘pieces’ of knowledge and learning
for community participation and community action that
link to the training courses are included on the web too
– to support others who want to try out the training
courses. This includes learning from the courses themselves
and feedback from the courses, and the project’s
advisory group. For more information on these training
courses click on ‘Shared Learning’ below.
The CBP thanks the European Social Fund for funding
the ‘Active Communities Research, Training and Learning
Programme’.
RESEARCH
REPORT
TRAINING COURSES
SHARING
LEARNING
(to be produced in the future)
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