Boston Placecheck Project Report
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APPENDIX A End of Project Report The End of Project Report is to be completed by the Project Manager in order to evaluate your project, identify the benefits achieved and the lessons learned. This document should be forwarded to the Health & Wellbeing Programme team [email protected] who will submit it to the HWB Fund Board. Once the Fund Board have signed off the End Project Report the final payment will be made. Project Title: Boston Placecheck Project Start Date: 01st July 2009 End date: 31st December 2011 Project Sponsor Project Manager: Andy Fisher Document Author Maddy Eyre/Mandy Exley/Andy Fisher/Rachel Lauberts (Resident) Distribution List: Boston Placecheck Partners Steering Group, Boston Stronger Communities (Former Community Cohesion) Delivery Group and Health and Well-Being Board Version History Version No Date Change details Author V1 May Maddy Eyre 2011 V2 Dec 2011 Maddy Eyre V3 Dec 2011 SD When completing this report please refer to your original planning documents, completed Highlight reports and data collected during the project. Please do not write in any grey text box Please expand boxes and add lines where necessary Background A brief description of your project, why it was needed and what difference it was to have made; including who was supposed to benefit and where it was based The Boston Placecheck Project was about targeted neighbourhood intervention. The Placecheck model is a tool which has been used as a means of consulting with local people about issues which affect them in their daily lives and seeks to involve them in the decision making processes and aims to encourage local service providers and agencies to focus their work programmes at a neighbourhood level. After a successful pilot project in the Daisy Dale area of Boston, which brought about £60,000 of improvements to the area, a meeting of key partners including Boston Borough Council, Boston Mayflower Housing Association and South Lincolnshire Community & Voluntary Service identified a strategic need to roll out the Placecheck model to 5 below ward level neighbourhoods, with similar characteristics to the Daisy Dale area and would benefit from a more holistic approach. • The neighbourhoods are within close distance of the town centre and are within the 6 most deprived wards in the Borough. • The housing in these areas is predominantly privately owned and consists of both owner occupied and privately rented, of which many are Houses in Multiple Occupation. • The housing is mostly pre 1919 terraced properties, with this form of housing commonly suffering from poor levels of home insulation and energy efficiency. • The neighbourhoods have witnessed a rapid demographic change in recent years with many migrant workers of differing nationalities living alongside a more stable indigenous population. • Whilst there will be specific issues unique to each neighbourhood, desktop research and anecdotal evidence suggests litter, poor street environment, traffic congestion, parking and management of private rented housing are priorities for local residents. The Placecheck Project sought to use funds to: • Build social capital within each of the 5 identified neighbourhoods to allow long term sustainability. • Work directly with residents to identify and prioritise issues. • Deliver neighbourhood improvements as directed by local residents via a dedicated neighbourhood budget. • Work with partner agencies to bring in additional funding and services to address issues highlighted in a completed report and action plan. • Monitor and evaluate the project. Objectives and Deliverables State the objectives, goods and services to be produced by your project and if they were achieved or not and if not, why not? Objectives (Taken from Boston Placecheck Project Business Case) The project will undertake community development and community capacity building in 5 identified neighbourhoods. The intention will be to enhance the quality of life and capacity of local people and their communities by involving them in the decision making processes to make improvements in their area through the bottom up Placecheck approach. This will lead to improved overall health and well-being of these communities, improving housing, reducing health inequalities and tackling social exclusion. Specifically they will involve: • Invite partner agencies from the statutory, private and community and voluntary sectors to formally launch the Placecheck project. • Organise meetings with local residents and local businesses and form resident steering groups in each of the 5 neighbourhoods. • As part of the Placecheck process within each neighbourhood, undertake a walking street audit, with local residents recording their information on paper, photographs and film. • Together with the local residents, produce a written report, which will be delivered to every household within each neighbourhood. • To include in the written report, an associated action plan, with a list of priorities as agreed by partner agencies and resident steering group. • Assist residents in producing and distributing 4 neighbourhood newsletters annually, together with leaflets and posters as required for the Placecheck project. • In partnership with the local residents, allocate the neighbourhood budget to those priorities. • Record number of volunteer opportunities for residents. • Work in partnership with the NHS funded Health Trainers. They will be working with individuals to enable and empower them to make life changes that impact on their health and well-being by one to one motivational interviewing and support. This may be healthy eating, giving up smoking etc. Their target areas dovetail with all 5 of the identified Placecheck neighbourhoods. • Work with Children’s Services via Sure Start and youth outreach workers. • Work with the Learning Community Project to identify learning and employment opportunities for individuals. • Agree and produce an exit strategy for each neighbourhood. • Bring forward the project for inclusion in the Take Part initiative. This is being co-ordinated by Lincolnshire County Council and the University of Lincoln. The project aims to gather, evaluate and share best practice around community empowerment and active citizenship. Through a multi-agency approach the core Placecheck team made up of officers from both Boston Borough Council and South Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service has engaged with local residents in the 5 identified below ward level neighbourhoods and prioritised key issues of concern. Key stakeholders in the Boston Placecheck Project over its lifetime have been; Lincolnshire Police, Lincolnshire Probation Trust, Children’s Service through the detached youth team, Boston Mayflower Housing Association, Business Link, NHS Health Trainers managed by South Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service, and Lincolnshire County Council Highways. All 5 identified Placecheck Neighbourhoods have carried out a Placecheck walking audit, produced and distributed a report to all households within each of the 5 Placecheck area boundaries which has then been used as a basis for drawing up a community action plan to negotiate improvements with the relevant service providers/agencies. Copies of all 5 Placecheck reports are available on request. Deliverables (products, goods and services) The process will be to use the Placecheck model, a simple but effective process that aims to bring everyone together to identify and address the issues raised and prioritised by local residents. Placecheck has been successfully delivered in Lincoln and was introduced to Boston through the pilot Daisy Dale project. Working in partnership with South Lincolnshire Community & Voluntary Service, Boston Borough Council endeavours to set up a team of professionals from both organisations alongside key partner agencies to manage, monitor and deliver the Boston Placecheck Project. Benefits Benefits that have been achieved during the lifetime of your project and if these were expected or unexpected, also include benefits that should be realised in the longer term. Please state numerical outputs from your performance template (e.g. participants, throughput, sessions delivered and amount of weight lost) and life-enhancing outcomes (e.g. improved mental and physical health and quality of life). Please attach anonymised case studies in Appendix 1 and results of user feedback in Appendix 2 Outputs: 2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 Performance indicators Total RAG (as stated on original business case) Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Target 4 6 6 6 9 10 12 15 No. of resident meetings held (per neighbourhood Actual 8 7 6 6 5 8 15 22 Target Measurement of progress amongst 70% of residents involved feel that they can influence decisions in their local community residents as to their ability to influence decisions in their community. Actual Target 10 10 20 20 20 30 40 50 No. of residents taking a role/responsibility within their As Yr 1 Qtr neighbourhood Actual 15 As Qtr 1 As Qtr 1 23 64 69 76 4 Target 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 No. of community activities 7 Udecide 1 Udecide undertaken to promote community Actual 2 1 5 5 15 29 projects project involvement Target 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 No. of Placechecks undertaken All Placechecks Actual 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 carried out Target 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 No. of Placecheck reports written and distributed ongoing ongoing ongoing Actual 1 1 1 1 1 action plan action plan action plan Target No of actions resolved as identified in each neighbourhood Placecheck Across 3 of the 5