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Trafford Partnership Annual Report 2014-15 Trafford Partnership Annual Report 2014/2015 1 www.traffordpartnership.org Contents The Trafford Partnership brings together people and organisations from across the public, private, voluntary, faith and community sectors and local residents. 3 Welcome from the Chair Team 4 Highlights 2014/15 6 Trafford Vision 7 Trafford Partnership Community Strategy 8 Who We Are 9 Trafford Partnership Executive 10 Locality Working 12 Old Trafford & Stretford 14 Urmston & Partington 16 Sale 18 South Trafford 20 2015/16 22 How to Get Involved 2 Welcome from the Chair Team Welcome to the Trafford Partnership Annual Report 2014/15 It gives me great pleasure to introduce this year’s will be considerable. Although we have only recently annual report, full of fantastic projects from the past launched our locality working programme, the 12 months which showcase what can be achieved Trafford Partnership and our Locality Partnerships when the people of Trafford work together. have been working hard on this throughout 2014-15, laying the foundations for this strengthened way It’s been my first year of co-chairing the partnership, of working. alongside Matthew Gardiner, Chief Executive of Trafford Housing Trust, and Rev. Roger Sutton, Chair To support greater collaboration between our of our Strong Communities Board, and despite our organisations and communities, we are now financial challenges, I am pleased that we have kept restructuring the partnership to ensure we achieve improving how we work together, building new and maximum impact from our activity by clearly linking stronger relationships, delivering innovative and our local outcomes to those outlined in the Greater exciting projects, and maintaining our position as a Manchester Strategy. Trafford plays an important nationally recognised high performing partnership. role in Greater Manchester; our economy is the most resilient in the North West, a higher proportion of Trafford continues to be the safest place in Greater our population is educated to degree level or above, Manchester, has excellent education, social care our education and children’s services are the best in and housing services, and a thriving third sector. the country, and we are well connected with good Partnership working is integral to these achievements. transport infrastructure which will only improve with Metrolink through Trafford Park and to the Trafford I am also particularly proud of our work with the Centre. Most importantly of all, our communities are Armed Forces, where we are leading the way in thriving and prosperous. These are our strengths, the Greater Manchester for our work supporting current assets that we have and we should use them to secure and ex-service personnel and recently we were given a the best possible outcomes for our residents and Silver Award for our efforts from the national Defence businesses both here in Trafford but across the city- Employer Recognition Scheme. region as a whole. Our successes in 2014 include the #BeResponsible Devolution presents huge opportunities for Trafford campaign to work together to help keep our and Greater Manchester. These are exciting times, neighbourhood’s clean and tidy and to encourage and we are determined that Trafford is at the forefront all residents and organisations to take responsibility of change, and leading the way for our residents, for making this happen. Building on this work, the businesses and partners. We will ensure we have partnership has launched the #BeBold campaign to connections into Greater Manchester, which will inspire local people to form a social movement that enable clear and beneficial links to flow from the will strengthen and enhance communities for many city-region through to our localities, communities years to come. and residents. We have a strong culture and history of collaborative Thank you for spending the time to read this annual working in Trafford, more so than in other boroughs. report. I hope it inspires you to greater partnership This was highlighted when we brought together working, delivering fantastic innovative and effective the 40 Faces of Trafford last year to celebrate the projects, and achieving positive outcomes for the amazing work residents across Trafford do in their people and places of Trafford. own local communities. It is absolutely the case that partnership working is ‘the norm’ in Trafford where we regularly see public organisations, community groups, residents, charities and businesses coming together for the benefit of all. However, there is always more to achieve, and this is driving our approach to locality working. We see all organisations, businesses, community groups and residents as assets in our community, and if we work harder to Councillor Sean Anstee connect, enable and support everyone to achieve Leader of Trafford Council their goals, the collective impact for our residents and Co-Chair of the Trafford Partnership 3 Highlights 2014/15 Thrive Trafford Trafford Advice Trafford is 40 Thrive Trafford, our third sector Partnership On 1st April 1974 Trafford support service, is working with Metropolitan Borough was formed, The Trafford Advice Partnership is more local groups than ever, which created Trafford as a single led by Citizens Advice Trafford and promoting activity through the place. We celebrated this 40th year includes the leading information much used Thrive website, which anniversary with a programme of and advice providers in the acts as a hub for volunteering events and activities that celebrated borough including Age UK Trafford, opportunities, supporting groups to everything that is great about Trafford Centre for Independent develop their capacity and quality Trafford, including the Big Trafford Living, LMCP Care Link, BlueSCI, through the Trafford Quality Mark, Lunch, a day of street parties Trafford Carers Centre and the and securing funding through a across Trafford on 1st June, and Autistic Society for the Greater range of sources. our 40 Faces of Trafford, who were Manchester Area. The partnership recognised at a Garden Party hosted is transforming information and by the Mayor in September. Safest place advice services making advice accessible to more people. This Trafford is still the safest place in includes offering more advice via Community First Greater Manchester, with the lowest telephone, webchat and webcam crime rate and highest public as well as outreach work in each of The Community First scheme was satisfaction and confidence rates. Trafford’s localities. launched in 2011 within four wards of Trafford and came to an end in 2014. The wards included Bucklow Excellent children’s Get ready for winter St Martins, Longford, Stretford and Gorse Hill. Panels of local residents services Trafford’s partners coordinated and Councillors were established Ofsted rated Trafford’s Children’s their winter messages into a single in each ward and over the four year Safeguarding Services as the best in newsletter, which was distributed period, the scheme distributed over the country, and its Youth Offending to community venues across the £150,000 to community groups Service has received the highest borough. The newsletter also with ideas which have benefit local national scoring. Educational promoted the Warm Homes Healthy residents. achievement in the borough People project, which supported remains one of the highest in the elderly and vulnerable residents country. with heating, benefit and health Armed Forces and wellbeing advice. Community Covenant Voluntary Sector Trafford Council was awarded Grants Reducing isolation a silver award in the Defence Trafford’s Diverse Communities Employer Recognition Scheme for Trafford’s Locality Partnerships and Partnership focused on reducing the fantastic support it gives to its Thrive Trafford held four public isolation of our most vulnerable employees who are Reservists. voting events in summer 2014 to residents, exploring the issue and decide which community projects supporting innovative local delivery should receive funding. Building on The 207 field Hospital delivered through its Advancing Equality the success of previous years, the HeartStart and defibrillator training Grants scheme. The Partnership events attracted over 700 people, across the borough during 14/15 awarded £30,000 to ten projects, enabling groups to showcase the training over 300 people from with Thrive Trafford supporting great work they do and recruit partner organisations and the organisations to ensure successful volunteers, as well as securing general public in key life saving delivery. funding. techniques. 4 Highlights 2014/15 Trafford Pledge Be Responsible Trafford Faith The Trafford Pledge businesses are Campaign Networking Event committed to offering employment The Council’s highly successful Trafford Strong Communities support to local people by offering ‘Be Responsible’ campaign took a Partnership hosted a Trafford Faith a job, an apprenticeship, work major step forward in the M16 area Networking Event in September experience or mentoring and of Old Trafford with the roll out of 2014 at Trafford Town Hall, with over practical help. Between April 2013 a wide range of initiatives aimed at 60 faith based people and groups and March 2015, 373 employment reducing the problems of litter and attending the event. opportunities were created through fly tipping in the Old Trafford area Trafford Partnership recognises the Trafford Pledge. and improving recycling rates. The the inspiring and essential role initiative also aims to promote social faith organisations
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