IMAGINE RUSHOLME! COMMUNITY SUMMIT Saturday October 6Th 2012
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! COMMUNITY SUMMIT Saturday October 6th 2012 Imagine Rusholme! Core Team [email protected] 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Summit Agenda Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 2 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! My One Thing We started off with a group introduction and appreciative story session. We said hello to someone we didn’t know and found out their name and where they were from. We then shared one thing each that has happened since the last Summit which had strengthened our love of Rusholme and wrote it on a ‘post it’. My One Thing Youth theatre director looking for participants Different sections of the community working from the diverse communities that exist in together Rusholme NEW BABY – everything I loved before I love ‘Greened’ street: plants fruit & veg even more now Project in Trinity House getting unemployed Park events customer doing gardening Street party on Park Range Nice to see this Diversity of population – dynamic Happy about Birchfields Park Festival Friends Group of Birchfields Park to support Vibrancy & energy for civil matters more physical activities in the park Rubbish being cleaned up Environment cleansing (streets and Platt Fields) St James churchyard tidy up (More) welcoming to students (than other areas) Beautiful area very leafy The greenery St James’ School a thriving local school new The allotment & orchard in Platt Fields Park! I head teacher didn’t know it existed Birchfields Park Fun Day Quiet street A Great Big Breakfast Introduction to the new GMP model done The area around the old ‘Welcome Pub’ is The Olympic spirit arriving! cleaner and tidier Especially the great clean up – much improved Clean-up The area at the end of Rusholme Grove has St James’ churchyard has been cleaned been tidied and looks much better Walking to the post box and meeting friends on Steering Group Action Plan with Stakeholders, the way now people are working together Great work with South Rusholme Residents’ Leaves turning on the trees – beautiful! Group particularly now the students are Visiting the vibrant ‘curry mile’ returning Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 3 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! My One Thing Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 4 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Building on Imagine Rusholme! 1 The current leaders of each of the ten Open Space Discussions that came out of the first Imagine Rusholme! Summit in March this year each gave a 140-word update on what they had achieved, in the context of their Discussion, since the first Summit in order to bring everyone up to speed. OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION DISCUSSION LEADER Community Garden on Rusholme Grove Cllr Kate Chappell + Joining Up Green Spaces, Hedgerows & Trees + Helena Kettleborough Creative Rusholme Phil Barton Litter Free Rusholme Cllr Ahmed Ali + Cleaner/Greener On Our Bikes in Rusholme Vincent Walsh Reducing Burglary CPSO Phil Mellor Respect for Rusholme Bruce Anderson + How to Work Positively with the Council for the Good of Rusholme Rusholme & Wider World Issues Stephen Pennells Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar + + Parking Sue Devlin Student Integration & Involvement Bev Craig + Ashley Hall Sustainability Jane Sweet Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 5 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Outcomes for Imagine Rusholme! 2 We discussed outcomes for Imagine Rusholme 2 – we would aim to achieve one thing to make life good for everyone in Rusholme….by December 2012 Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 6 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! World Café We used an approach called ‘World Café’ where each Discussion Leader remained at a ‘café’ table and everyone was free to choose which Discussion to join and therefore which ‘café’ table to sit at. We had at least three opportunities to move around, some people stayed in the same Discussion, others moved several times. Throughout we were taking first steps together: Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 7 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 1: Community Garden/Green Spaces Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 8 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 1: Community Garden/Green Spaces IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Community Garden/Green Spaces Create corridors Join up green spaces – better for wildlife Gore Brook, Birchfields, Platt Fields Organise fun run-fun walk-fun cycle with children between green spaces Rusholme in Bloom Bins Family of foxes, hedgehog, feral cats By December 2012 – Meet up to plan an Open Yardens and Gardens (OYG) Event! o Outcome – to raise funds to build planned community garden through our OYG open day o Speak to Adele, organiser of Moss Side OYG o Speak to organisations like Friends of Birchfields, Friends of Platt Fields, Rusholme Allotments Association, Residents’ Associations and form a steering group. When are their next meetings? o Meet December, set a date, not to clash with other schemes o Plan the day – central area, sell programmes “Look out for……” o Pop-up tea shop Co-opt enthusiastic partners – 5! (2 more) 1st Date for a meeting – Thursday 18th October 2012, 3pm @ Lynn’s house Long term plan: o Involve the University botanical gardens o Involve landlords in keeping their gardens o Linking green areas into a wildlife/green walk around Rusholme By October 2013: o Open Yardens & Gardens Sunday has taken place in mid June 2013 o there is a wildlife corridor walk o have established a forest school facility in one of our parks o have linked with the University botanical gardens and Red Rose forests o there is a scheme to encourage landlords to maintain front & back gardens & not concrete them over o Landscape & gardening scheme in place – enforced? 1. Kate Chappell – Discussion Leader [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5. Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 9 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 2: Creative Rusholme Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 10 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 2: Creative Rusholme IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Creative Rusholme 1) Rusholme Festival Antwerp, Birch Community Centre, Platt Chapel, Trinity House, St Edwards Hall, Trinity House Rusholme is what people believe to be Rusholme 2) Plan strategy for the next 10 years with feasibility study 3) Legacy for Festival 4) Project for long-term goals 5) Rusholme festival to represent ALL of Rusholme 6) Brand image for ‘Southern Quarter’ Stage 1 o 22 Oct application in o If successful student to shadow/assist person o Small steering group – community/arts org/city/school o Raise awareness of what’s already going on to more parts of the community, inform people, cultural, “listening” o Apply for Neighbourhood Arts Grant for a project o First report – end Jan o Meeting of interested people o Cornerhouse & Library Theatre o John Atkin Stage 2 o Cultural feasibility – community, students, culture, economic o September/October 2013 – Rusholme Festival o Black history month o Photo o Sports - second 1. Phil Barton [email protected] 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 11 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 3: Litter-Free Rusholme Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 12 of 30 [email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net. 09/11/12 G IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 3: Litter-Free Rusholme IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Litter-Free Rusholme Managing tidyness! Parking Where are the bins? Not enough bins: who decides on the number of bins? Heritage Trail Funding from ward grant Litter picking kits Involve students and community groups Use parking officers! New Neighbourhood Delivery Teams from the Council, trying to reconcile differences about waste NDT is overstretched, working relentlessly and achieving the job – successful with team and community Partnership beginning to take place and growing Businesses – NDT stopping fliers especially in student areas (not using letter boxes, getting thrown