Community Centres and Projects Annual Report 2015 – 2016 Ardler Complex • Charleston Community Centre Douglas Community Centre and Library • Finmill Centre The Hilltown Project • Kirkton Community Centre Menzieshill Community Centre • Whitfield Community Project Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Centres and Projects Service in Numbers ................................................................................................................. 4 Service Priorities .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Promote physical health and mental well-being by providing community facilities, social, recreational and educational opportunities. ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Develop cultural programmes within our communities .......................................................................................... 8 Build community capacity within charities to deliver provision to meet local needs............................................ 10 Develop volunteer opportunities and assess impact on provision ........................................................................ 12 Volunteer Friendly Award ......................................................................................................................................... 12 Provide community learning and development opportunities for children to enable them to achieve their full potential. .................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Support communities to work together to promote regeneration by creating, building and developing partnerships ............................................................................................................................................................... 16 Develop the Centres as "Community Hubs" to facilitate local residents' access to information and public services ....................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Future Plans ............................................................................................................................................................... 18 Staff and Volunteers .................................................................................................................................................. 19 Contacts ..................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Introduction This report illustrates the diversity of provision provided by the Housing and Communities, Community Centres and Projects Section. The Section has a very strong Community Learning and Development (CLD) programme in many aspects of our work. The diversity of which is evident throughout this report such as • Building community capacity with many individuals and groups/charities. • Wide spectrum of opportunities through volunteering which presents a significant monetary value to both the community and the programmes we support. • A five to ten years children’s work programme. Community Centre and Projects apply the CLD process to enable people (particularly those who are excluded from participation in key social processes that shape their lives) to identify their own individual and collective goals, and how they can achieve these goals through taking action to bring about change. In pursuit of this we use informal education to empower people and communities to facilitate change. The community centres are recognised as important community hubs, where the council and a wide range of other service providers engage with the public. The Community Centres and Project teams undertake an extremely important role by enabling the sheer diversity of engagement to be optimised and developed through partnership working. All six community centres, along with the Hilltown Project and the Whitfield Community Project have contributed to the success of the section over the past year which has seen significant developments with our partner charities and representative body Dundee Association of Local Management Groups (DALMG). We have once again supported the development of a diverse programme of opportunities through learning and service provision and have received positive feedback from the many groups and individuals who use our network of facilities. 3 Centres and Projects Service in Numbers Our Centre Administration teams record figures under age categories for people using the facilities. These figures are shown as group users Category Groups Individuals (number of group sessions) and individual users (attendance numbers) Pre 5 1270 27831 opposite for the year. Primary 2763 40834 • There were 26215 group sessions recorded for the year (up by 117 on last year’s figure). Youth 1491 17815 • Attendance at the sessions also increased by 11529 to 401591. Adult 14470 131974 Mixed Age 6221 183182 Totals: 26215 401591 We classify lets (bookings) in six categories to show the diversity of groups and individuals using the facilities. The chart opposite shows an overview of the types of bookings made over the year. Performance Monitoring Outputs 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015 - 2016 Targets Actual Targets Actual Targets Actual Cultural Sessions Number of cultural sessions held within 200 209 200 249 205 257 Community Centres Number of people attending cultural events 18,000 17,213 18,000 17,939 18,400 24,625 within Community Centres Primary Sessions Number of sessions for 5 to 10 year old children 4,300 3,565 4,300 2,743 2,750 2,759 within Community Centres Number of individual visits by 5 to 10 year olds 64,500 38,406 64,500 29,169 30,000 29,202 to engage in children's provision within Community Centres Volunteers Number of volunteers supporting Community 133 160 136 185 142 186 Centre programmes Community Centre Users: Total Nos. Number of individual visits to Community 430,000 438,082 432,000 389,802 400,000 401,591 Centres Outside Opening Hours Number of weekend lets in Community Centres 220 718 225 766 810 942 out with normal opening times ICT Sessions Number of individual visits to engage in 1,640 4,669 1,670 6,009 6,000 6,643 structured ICT sessions managed by Community Centres Number of structured ICT sessions managed by 500 883 520 1,258 550 1317 Community Centres Achievement • Kirkton Community Centre received their Volunteer Friendly Award. • 55 capacity building sessions delivered to Local Management Group members. • 56 partnership agreements in place across the city. o 5316 sessions delivered in centres by partner organisations. Progression • 20 learners progressed from introductory IT classes on to accredited training (ECDL). • 5 learners completed their ECDL (a further 6 have sat at least 1 module tests so far). Service Priorities Our Service Priorities have been established from Dundee’s Intermediate Strategic Outcomes as follows; Dundee Intermediate Strategic Outcomes Centres & Projects Service Priorities People will have more healthy and active lifestyles. Promote physical health and mental well-being by providing community facilities, social, recreational and People have better mental health and well-being. educational opportunities. Dundee delivers excellent cultural choice and opportunity for its Develop Cultural Programmes within our communities. citizens and visitors. Our neighbourhoods experience greater community spirit and well- Build community capacity within charities to deliver local being. provision to meet local needs. Our neighbourhoods receive better services Our people engage and participate more in their community. Our neighbourhoods experience greater community spirit and well- Develop volunteer opportunities and assess impact on being. provision. Our people engage and participate more in their community. Children have raised attainment and achievement and are supported Provide community learning and development and guided in their learning and in the development of their skills, opportunities for children to enable them to achieve their confidence and self-esteem at home, at school and in the community. full potential. Children have opportunities to taker part in activities such as play, recreation and sport which contribute to healthy growth and development, at home, at school and in the community Our neighbourhood receive better services. Support communities to work together to promote regeneration by creating, building and developing partnerships. Our neighbourhood receive better services. Develop the Centre's as "Community Hubs" to facilitate local residents' access information and public services. Our people have access to high quality community facilities Under each priority heading, we have provided in the following pages some examples of the work supported by the section over the year. 5 Promote physical health and mental well-being by providing community facilities, social, recreational and educational opportunities. U3A programme Introduction There has been a diverse programme of opportunities across the Section’s facilities. Many of these have been