INVOLVING COMMUNITIES IN REGENERATION
Lessons learned by the Salford Social Action Research Project
A National Conference at two World Class Venues
Thursday, February 28 - The Lowry Hotel Friday, March 1 - The Lowry
Public sector organisations aim to involve communities - often with limited time and resources.
The Social Action Research Project (S.A.R.P) releases the capacity of organisations and communities to work in equal partnership. It is developing ways of promoting health, looks at the concept of social capital and the importance of shared learning.
We are planning an interactive and lively conference to share our learning and practical experience which will involve: o Keynote speakers o Video evidence of what it feels like to be regenerated o Sessions on: Involving communities Employing community activists Why people do and don't get involved in local action o Organisational development tools o Project visits
Why not join us for the year's most innovative conference on Public Sector / Community Partnerships?
For further details contact:
Bryan Chadderton Tel: 0161 485 4853 Fax: 0161 488 4826 ISDN: 0161 488 4598
Email: [email protected]
SARP CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Day 1 - Thursday, 28 February Location - Lowry Hotel, Chapel Wharf, Salford.
10.00 am Arrival / Registration / Coffee
10.30 am Welcome and introduction Chair - Chris Wells Former Police Divisional Commander
10.35 am What's it all about Dr Chrissie Pickin Eastern Regional Office, Department of Health
Jennie Popay Chair in Sociology & Public Health, Lancaster University
10.45 am Key speaker Bill Espie Project Director, NELM Development Trust
11.05 am Q & A session
11.15 am Key speaker Keith Proctor Founding Coordinator of REGENERATE
11.35 am Q & A session
11.45 am Key speaker Dr David Colin-Thome Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management at Manchester University
12.05 pm Q & A session
12.20 pm Discussion and Panel questions
01.00 pm LUNCH
02.00 pm Workshop A
03.00 pm Coffee
03.30 pm Workshop B
04.30 pm End of Day 1 Q & A session Chair - Chris Wells
07.30pm Conference Dinner Hazel Blears MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health
Cllr John Merry, Deputy Leader, Salford City Council
Day 2 - Friday, 1 March Location - The Lowry, Salford Quays, Salford.
11.15 am Coaches collect delegates from Lowry Hotel for site visits to one of the following:
· Langworthy Cornerstone & Seedley and Langworthy Initiative (SALI) · The Angel Healthy Living Centre · CREST · Little Hulton
11.15 am Coaches pick up delegates for return journey to The Lowry Theatre
11.40 am Coffee
12 noon Welcome back Dr Chrissie Pickin & Jennie Popay
12.05 pm Video
12.25 pm Plenary session Dr Chrissie Pickin & Jennie Popay
12.30 pm Discussion / Q & A session Dr Chrissie Pickin & Jennie Popay Gerry Stone / Owen Gillicker Anne Marie Pickup / Rachel Worthington Diana Martin / Cllr John Merry 1.00 pm Buffet lunch & close
WORKSHOP INFORMATION All delegates to attend one Session A Workshop followed by one Session B Workshop
WORKSHOP 1 - Sure Start Led by Breastmates How do you encourage a new mother to breast feed when she has only seen babies fed by bottle? How do you enable mothers to continue when they have problems, which could have been avoided or solved if they were better supported? Sure Start, which aims to provide the best possible start in life for babies and young children, has pioneered a major Breast Feeding Project to tackle these problems, in partnership with Salford Primary Care Trust. It involves experienced health professionals training a group of mothers in techniques and management of breast feeding. The mothers - who call themselves 'Breastmates' - are now able to help support other mums in and around the area where they live and work - chatting at the school gate, down at the shops or in the local mother and toddler groups.
WORKSHOP 2 - Communities that Care Led by Mary Rolfe Communities that Care is a new kind of prevention programme that confronts the disillusion and pessimism felt in disadvantaged, high crime neighbourhoods. This long-term programme targets four of the most important problem behaviours that damage people's lives and the communities in which they live - youth crime; drug abuse; school age pregnancy & sexually transmitted diseases; and school failure. The programme has been operating in Seedley and Langworthy since December 1999.
WORKSHOP 3 - Social Entrepreneurs Led by Chris Dabbs The Salford Social Entrepreneurs Programme is the first of its type anywhere in the UK. A small group of 'community sparkplugs' experience a 'learning by doing' programme over a whole year to increase their confidence, capacity and skills to tackle issues in their own communities. The programme offers a variety of challenges and support to bring about practical involvement through both personal and project development towards sustainable community enterprise. The workshop will explore this approach to supporting individuals and its impact on both local people and agencies.
WORKSHOP 4 - Action Learning as a process for change Led by Steve Young The Revans Institute offers support for local people, or those with a role in facilitating community development through a process of action learning. Action Learning can develop your skills to work in partnership with others. The process involves working in small groups - 'sets' - which consist of five or six people who have agreed to meet on a regular basis. Come and listen to how using an action learning approach and working in an action learning set has made a difference to local people in their community.
WORKSHOP 5 - Community Strategy Led by Steve Thompson Salford's Community Strategy is aimed at encouraging Community participation and supporting Community activity. It is based on the belief that an active community is a healthy community. There are two main strands to the strategy: 1) To support community groups through providing access to various grants and using the City Council's assets i.e. staff, buildings, equipment etc. to enable communities to realise their full potential and 2) To enable community participation through the City's nine Community Committees and their development of their own local Community Action Plans.
WORKSHOP 6 - Salford Money Line Led by Mike Whitnall & Joyce Fitzpatrick Salford Money Line is now established as Salford's independent loan company, delivering a range of personal and business loans. Partnerships across the public, private and voluntary sector allow us to 'add value', provide tangible financial support and act as a signpost to other support and advisory services. The workshop will look at Jam Jars, community finance and regeneration.
WORKSHOP 7 - Capacity Releasing Strategy Led by Dizy Martin & Gerry Stone Salford has developed a Capacity Releasing Strategy, which is not just about building the capacity of the community. The workshop will explain how the agencies, organisations, staff and residents of the Salford Partnership aim to work and learn together about what works in involving people in decision-making. The strategy is about 'releasing' the capacity of its most valuable resource - its people - and enabling them to maker the changes necessary in their organisations.
WORKSHOP 8 - Nottingham SARP Led by Beryl Whitehead Thilo Boeck & Jennie Fleming Nottingham Social Action Research Project is the sister project to Salford SARP. Both were funded by the Health Development Agency to understand and establish the existence of social capital. Nottingham Social Action Research Project has worked with local workers and people to develop and evaluate social capital in the Nottingham area.
WORKSHOP 9 - Health Development Agency Led by Anthony Morgan Learning from Social Action Research, the HDA and before that the Health Education Authority, funded two major Social Action Research Projects at Salford and Nottingham. This workshop considers the lessons learned from the projects and emergent methodology.
WORKSHOP 10 - Salford SARP Led by Dr Chrissie Pickin Anne-Marie Pickup & Owen Gillicker Salford Social Action Research Project was established to explore how effective community involvement in public policy making and implementation and in public service planning and delivery could be promoted. SARP explored through action the strength of social relations, civic engagement and other collective processes within and between communities forming a powerful collective resource that may have an effect on community health and well being.
WORKSHOP 11 - Salford Local Strategic Partnership Led by Sheila Murtagh & Joyce Marsden Salford's Local Strategic Partnership was launched in November 2001 building on the existing Salford Partnership established in 1994 to bid for regeneration funding (SRB1). It has subsequently been successful in gaining major external funds including SRB (1,2,3 and 5) and £52m for New Deal for Communities. It has also actively supported and developed local partnerships working across a whole range of organisations. The Partnership was selected as a 'pathfinder' by the Local Government Association to test new approaches to regeneration in 1998. It has regularly reviewed its role, resulting in reduction in size from 46 to 16 organisations and inclusion of community reps, as well as existing public, private, voluntary and faith sector reps in response to LSP Guidance. The partnership has a dedicated support team that includes a number of secondees (from NHS, Benefits Agency, Employment Services and the community sector). Over the last seven years a lot of lessons have been learned, which may be of interest to newer Partnerships.
WORKSHOP 12 - Participatory Appraisal Led by Sue Hinder, Mike Gaughran & Rachel Worthington Community participation is vital if local people are to take a leading role in the process of regeneration and to ensure lasting improvements after the physical regeneration process is complete. Salford's New Deal for Communities Delivery Plan was developed using a team of Participatory Appraisal Workers. The team has been retained and extended as an integral part of the NDC Delivery Team and they have a critical role on the ground in ensuring that projects are being implemented and are delivering what the Community wants and needs.
THE SPEAKERS Hazel Blears MP Hazel was born and brought up in Salford and had a dual career as a Senior Solicitor and a North West Councillor and was Chair of the Salford Community Health Council from 1992-96. She was elected as the Member of Parliament for Salford in May 1997. She was PPS for Rt Hon Alan Milburn when he was Minister of State at the Health Department in 1998 and when he was Chief Secretary at the Treasury between January and October 1999. Hazel was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health in June 2001.
David Colin-Thome OBE, MBBS, FRCGP, MFPHM, MHSM Newcastle University Graduate and General Practitioner since 1971 in Runcorn. Part-time General Practitioner since 1994. National Clinical Director for Primary Care. Primary Care Adviser - London R.O. Honorary Fellow of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management at Manchester University.
Bill Espie Bill Espie is the Project Director of the NELM Development Trust - the New Deal for Communities project in Norwich tasked with the ten-year regeneration of an inner city area. The project is one of the most community led projects within NDC with over 30 projects already launched ranging across the full spectrum of regeneration activities. Bill spent over 20 years in the Armed Forces mainly on anti-terrorist operations. He spent time in the NHS from 1990 - 93 in Training and Education and successfully privatised this function for a District Health Authority. Since then he has operated as the managing consultant of a public services consultancy dealing mainly with Mental Health and Social Services. His presentation - Icebergs and Deckchairs - reflects his work in Norwich, the insights gained on both statutory agencies and community over the last two and a half years and the changes that will be needed for successful Neighbourhood Management.
Councillor John Merry Councillor Merry is Deputy Leader of Salford City Council and Lead Member for Community and Strategy Issues, and has particular interest and involvement in the SARP project.
Dr Chrissie Pickin Dr Chrissie Pickin was the original project director of the Salford Social Action Research Project and chaired the multi-agency steering group until June 2001. She was Director of Public Health for Salford and Trafford Health Authority from 1996 until 2001. During this time she was seconded part time to Salford University where she worked on many research and development projects to raise awareness about how to tackle health inequalities effectively. One of these was the Strategic Action for Healthy Communities (SAPHC) project looking at why public sector organisations find it difficult to work in equal partnership with communities. For findings see final report from King's Fund "What's to stop us? Overcoming barriers to public sector engagement with local communities". She now works for the Eastern Regional Office of the Department of Health.
Jennie Popay Jennie Popay has been a member of the SARP steering group since it was established in 1998 initially representing the University of Salford. She has had lead responsibility for the local research conducted within SARP including surveys in each of the four SARP localities and qualitative research into why people are reluctant to get involved in local social action. Her research interests include social inequalities in health and the significance of lay expert knowledge for health and social policy and practice. She returned to Salford, where she was born, after 20 years working in London and teaching in East Africa. She has recently taken up a Chair in Sociology and Public health at Lancaster University. She was previously Professor of Sociology and Health Policy in the Nuffield Institute for Health at Leeds University prior to which she was Professor of Sociology and Community Health at Salford University and Director of the Institute for Public Health Research, which she established in 1991. She has directed an extensive programme of work within the National Primary Care R&D Centre and has had significant research funding from the ESRC, the MRC and various charitable sources. She has recently been appointed to the National Commission for Health Improvement and has been a non-executive director of an NHS Trust.
Keith Proctor Keith Proctor is the founding Co-ordinator of REGENERATE - the Community-Led Estate Regeneration Service. Keith edited an inspiring handbook on Community-Led Regeneration which has sold over 12,000 copies. It is packed full of practical advice for residents by residents. It features 5 success stories of Estate Regeneration in Plymouth, London, Liverpool, Walsall and Bradford, written by resident leaders with first hand experience of transforming their Estate. There is also simple to follow guidance by experienced professional and voluntary experts on key issues e.g. rural regeneration, legal, design, funding, management, New Deal for Communities, partnerships, crime, drugs, jobs, family and faith. REGENERATE provides travel grants for residents to visit "Beacon Estates", and help for residents in improving their Estates. It is a charity project funded by the Housing Corporation, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and various Trusts. Keith believes that residents are not the problem but the key to the solution.
Chris Wells Chris retired as Divisional Commander - Salford Division - of the Greater Manchester Police in September 2001 after 36 years service. Prior to his position in Salford, he was Divisional Commander of the Bury Division of the Greater Manchester Police. The last 4 years of his service as Divisional Commander saw him involved in a wide range of activities concerning Regeneration Projects and social issues in the city. As the Divisional Commander he had responsibility for a total of 600 staff. He was the joint Chair of the Crime and Disorder Executive Partnership Group for Crime and Disorder Reduction and Chair of the Salford Drug Action Team. He had specific involvement in Regeneration Projects in Seedley and Langworthy, Cheetham and Broughton and Chapel Street. He is also a member of the Council of the University of Salford.
SITE VISITS The site visits are an opportunity to see at first hand some of the community projects in Salford, and to talk to members of the community about how the project impacts on their lives.
VISIT 1 - Seedley & Langworthy Regeneration area tour and visits to the Langworthy Cornerstone and Seedley and Langworthy Initiative (SALI) A visit to the Seedley and Langworthy regeneration area followed by a tour round the new community building in Seedley and Langworthy, completed in 2001 and funded by Salford and Trafford Primary Care Trust and the Sure Start project. This innovative building is now a base for the Sure Start Project, and the local SRB5 team. It provides a range of health care facilities including family planning, Young Persons Sexual Health Clinic, and other community activities including a creche, IT training, alternative therapies and much more. Seedley and Langworthy Initiative (SALI) is a community shop situated on the main street of the local regeneration area. It offers a comprehensive advice and assistance service to the local community who are also involved in producing a newsletter and a range of training.
VISIT 2 - Chapel Street regeneration area tour and visit to the Angel Healthy Living Centre A visit to the Chapel Street regeneration area followed by the Angel Healthy Living Centre, which offers a range of facilities for the local community. One-to-one services include diet and nutritional advice, chiropody, counselling, smoking cessation advice, treatment for sports injuries and complementary therapies. Group relaxation and exercise sessions include relaxation, confidence building, anger management, a laughter club, belly dancing and 'pamper' afternoons. The centre also features a Tiny Tots playgroup, and a café serving wholesome home-cooked food.
VISIT 3 - New Deal for Communities area tour and visits to CREST and Comps PC Project Tour of the New Deal for Communities areas of Charlestown and Kersal. Visit to CREST, a community resource centre for local people run mainly by volunteers from the community providing a wide range of information and advice. Training courses and workshops are available plus the opportunity to use computers, email, internet, photocopying, pay phone etc. The Centre is a drop-off point for the Salford Advertiser newspaper and provides a distribution facility for the local community for newsletter, leaflets etc. The Centre also acts as an access point for information about New Deal for Communities. Also included in the tour is a visit to Comps PC, a nearby computer learning project.
VISIT 4 - Little Hulton regeneration tour and visit to several projects at the One Stop Shop A tour of the Little Hulton regeneration area followed by a visit to the One Stop Shop which offers a partnership approach to assisting the local community. Local authority and Health authority services can be accessed here in a way which strengthens and sustains the local regeneration process. Local groups meet here and are given assistance to access funding. Alternative health treatments and IT training are also available. The visit will highlight community projects including Kenyon Residents, St Paul's Peel Parish Hall, Peel United Football Club and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Group).
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Delegate package 1 £295.00+VAT Two-day conference including overnight stay at the Lowry Hotel NOTE: Delegates requiring single room occupancy must pay an extra £50
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Delegate package 4 £185+VAT Two-day conference excluding first evening dinner and overnight stay at the Lowry Hotel.
Delegate package 5 £165.00+VAT Day 1 only, including evening dinner
Delegate package 6 £ 60.00+VAT Day 2 only
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