New Wortley Our Place Partners and Quotes

For many years New Wortley has been a part of Leeds which featured at the bottom of most indicators, Health, Unemployment, Crime, Housing, environment, education. For whatever reason the population felt forgotten about just putting up with these issues and accepting they lived in an area where life chances were much less than other parts of Leeds only a couple of miles away. New Wortley was part of the Wortley ward, then a few years ago it become part of the Armley ward, it was a ward where it felt worthless. For services and agencies New Wortley was a difficult place to deliver services into, due the challenging nature of the local population and any dialogue was often brief, angry or misunderstood.

New Wortley Our Place has brought together a wide range of local people and services all to start to focus on the priorities and key issues in new Wortley. The range and depth of the services listed show that a lot of services are involved in the local area, but the evidence makes you wonder to what outcome?

Our Place has helped us build the bridges between services, local people and people who work in the area. It has given us the time and space to ask the questions and hear/ listen to the local people. Our place has given us the space to listen and hear, and listen and hear again, making sure that what our plan is will be community led and focussed.

Our place was probably not designed for an area like New Wortley, but we have shown even the most disadvantaged community can benefit from Our Place and use it as a mechanism for change.

Partners

New Wortley Community Association New Wortley Residents Association Castleton Primary School Castleton Family Centre Thornton Medical Centre Priory View Medical centre Rachel Reeves MP Alison Lowe (local Councillor) Maureen Ingham Local resident and Councillor Kimberly Frangos Local resident Leeds West CCG Directorate of Public Health Leeds City Council West Yorkshire Police Neighbourhood Police Team Housing Leeds Area Management Leeds City Council New Wortley Community Centre BARCA Healthy living Network Workers Education Association Families First Armley Cluster (education) DWP Leeds Connexions Service IGEN Youth Offending Service John Battle (ex MP Leeds West, Ex Gvt Foreign Office Minister) COGS Jenny Pupuis

Some Quotes:

“Our Place has been a great process, it has really brought the right people together who can and want to make a difference in New Wortley” Kimberly Frangos- Local resident

“The Our Place meetings have been great for bringing together the wide range of people from many different agencies working on the same types of issues and it has also been a very creative process which seeks to develop different solutions” Joe Kent, Senior Manager BARCA

“Our Place is seen by DWP as an excellent partnership initiative which provides scope & opportunity for focussed individual support to vulnerable customers in the New Wortley Community” Simon Betts, Relationship Manager, DWP Work Service Directorate

“I can well imagine how your new facility will be such a game changer for your local community, as not only will it represent real change, but also recognition and support by others as to your vision along with a demonstration that the community can drive and lead that change for itself and ultimately for the betterment of so many” Ron Ley MBE FRICS Chair of our Place National Champions Network

“Our place has been the mechanism for change …It’s not perfect but it has worked for us, bringing the right partners to the table that can make things better for New Wortley” Bill Graham NWCA

“The Our Place project has enabled a variety of agencies to come together under one roof and clarify each other’s priorities and roles. It has heightened understanding of the needs of the community and enabled a cohesive plan to be established. My hopes are a healthy, happy community that is safe and supportive, where all children achieve their full potential” Andrea Riley, Co-Head Teacher, Castleton Primary School

“Leeds Community Foundation has supported New Wortley Community Centre through a number of our different funds and resources, and it's been fantastic to see how the Our Place Process has connected key people - who have all been active in the area but never all sat down and talked together - and challenged them to rethink what the community needs, rather than what they can offer. I also think we are starting to see the ripples from the New Wortley Our Place spreading right across the city” Pip Goff, Programmes Manager, Leeds Community Foundation

“Our Place, a great vehicle to drive improvements locally for residents ensuring joined up services within the locality deliver what the community wants, I'm looking forward to continuing to improve services through this enhanced partnership approach” Gerard Tinsdale, Area Housing Manager, Leeds Housing

“I have enjoyed helping put together the supporting statistics and presentations for the Our Place plan and have found it very encouraging that so many people have invested their time and shown such commitment it trying to make New Wortley a better place to live” Gary Murphy, Our Place administrator

“It's been an inspiration to work with the folk of New Wortley as they have been developing their innovative Our Place plan which will make such a difference to their neighbourhood. And I know they have the motivation, the energy and the commitment to make it all happen” Jenny Pupuis, Our Place Relationship Manager

“Excited to be involved is a project that put the community at the heart of decision making . Hopefully, local people will have an opportunity to make a real difference in how future resources are deployed in New Wortley, to tackle the community Safety issues raised” Gill Hunter, Area Community Safety Coordinator, WNW Area

“New Wortley is a place of hope and aspiration as a result of the community coming together to develop and now deliver the Our Place plan. The way this neighbourhood has come together is nothing short of inspirational” Alison Lowe, Chief Executive Touchstone, LGBT Champion, Leeds Councillor

“The Our Place approach is re-invigorating existing partnership working in New Wortley and forging new collaborative relationships in the development of a credible, aspirational plan. We’re all looking forward to playing our part in its delivery, working alongside local residents to achieve their ambitions for their neighbourhood.” Shaid Mahmood, Chief Officer for Communities

“The New Wortley area of Leeds has been crying out for a homogenous plan to which all the partners are committed and where local people have a voice. For me, this opportunity to access the views, needs and wants of the local community is the single most important feature of the New Wortley Our Place plan” I am certain that this new approach will result in all the partners and local people interacting with each other in a way that benefits the residents of New Wortley, reducing real crime levels, tackling vulnerability resulting in a community that is more confident and more resilient. The residents of New Wortley are fortunate to have Bill and his band of dedicated volunteers taking this initiative forward” Simon Jessup, Inspector Leeds District – Inner West

“We've got great community activists in the area who are working together with all the agencies and local businesses to ensure that the Our Place community plan and vision for New Wortley become a reality. Our Place is helping to shape and cement plans for New Wortley for the next generation to take over” Maureen Ingham, Local resident for 44 years, Vice Chair New Wortley Residents Association,

“New Wortley Our Place has been an opportunity to bring together people who care about changing people’s lives in New Wortley. It has involved local people, workers in the area and people in strategic roles that are keen to make a difference. It has been challenging and has highlighted some of the deep seated social and economic problems in the area. It has also highlighted, however, assets in the area and people’s willingness to be bold and do something different” Tim Taylor is a Health and Wellbeing Improvement Manager.

2014 New Wortley – Our Place TimeLine

12th SEPTEMBER SEP First Partnership Meeting Chaired by Rachel Reeves MP

13th Consultation Event

th OCT 8 OCTOBER Visit from Lord Ahmad to announce New Wortley as a Breaking New Ground area

15th Attended Champions Network meeting at DCLG in London

20th Public Meeting and consultation

2014 New Wortley – Our Place TimeLine

NOV 14th NOVEMBER Second partnership Meeting Chaired by Dr. Andrew Sixsmith Special Guests: John Battle (ex MP/ Foreign Minister) & Jim Astbury - Locality Our Place Presentation of Draft Plans

16th - 18th Locality Conference Cardiff including Yorkshire and Humber Our Place meeting & Our Place presentation

nd DEC 2 DECEMBER York Peer review, New Wortley Our Place presentation well received

2015 New Wortley – Our Place TimeLine

JAN 23rd JANUARY Third Partnership Meeting Chaired by Dr. Andrew Sixsmith a workshop session with contributions from a very wide range of partners

26th Peer review Kimberworth Park, Rotherham

28th Champions Network event at DCLG in London

FEB 10th FEBRUARY New Wortley Our Place Plan presented to Neighbourhood Improvement Board at Leeds City Council Civic Hall - Well received

10th Accepting Big Lottery Offer of £680,000 to build a new community building in New Wortley

2015 New Wortley – Our Place TimeLine

11th A New Wortley Our Place trip to Salford Health Matters to understand the innovative way of dealing with health issues in Salford, Social Prescribing, Life Coaching asking community what they can do for themselves. On trip Dr. Andrew Sixsmith (GP CCG) Senior management team Leeds Housing, Senior council officer Area Management, Local residents, volunteers and others.

12th Our Place strategy meeting to bring plans together

16th Peer review Royds, Bradford

17th Press launch of proposed New Building

18th Planning session to formulate Action Plan

MAR 6th MARCH Fourth Partnership Meeting