City Of Cardiff City Of Cardiff OPENCities Local ActionOPENCities Plan Local Action Plan PAGE 1 II CT URBA City Of Cardiff OPENCities Local Action Plan PAGE 2 PAGE 3 Contents The OPENCities Project 4 The Local Support Group 5 1 Developing the Local Action Plan 6 Cardiff - an International and Open City 7 2 Cardiff’s International Populations 8 Understanding our ‘openness’ 12 Migrant Stories 13 3 ‘Word on the Street’ 14 Challenges and Potential Solutions 14 Recommendations 16 Appendix 1 – Local Action Plan & Projects 17 OPENCities Action Plan Overview 17 4 OPENCities Action Plan Projects 17 OPENCities Photography Project 18 Photography Workshops 20 Cultural Workshops 22 Soundtrack for Cardiff 22 Digital Butetown 24 Sharing a City, Sharing Faith 26 Cardiff – Developing an International and OPEN City 30 Word on the Street 32 OPENCities Education Project 34 Active Citizens 36 Future OPENCities Game 36 New to the City Focus Groups 38 OPENCities Survey 40 OPENCities Monitor - Cardiff 40 Commonwealth Local Government Youth Forum 42 OPENCities Branding 44 International Exchange and Best Practice 46 Belfast Migrant Forum 46 5 Bilbao Local Government Immigration Observatory 48 Dreams and Teams 50 COP 14 in Poznan 52 Bilbao People of the World Festival 52 City Of Cardiff OPENCities Local Action Plan PAGE 4 PAGE 5 1 The OPENCities Project Local Support Group OPENCities is a British Council project, The OPENCities project focuses upon The project seeks to develop guidance Participating cities have established Membership Olga Kelly led by Belfast City Council, in the relationship between cities and their and recommendations for city Local Support Groups (LSG) in order Governance Consultant, partnership with the cities of Bilbao, increasingly diverse populations and stakeholders on how to create an to deliver the OPENCities programme In Cardiff, the core membership of the British Council Wales Cardiff, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Nitra, explores how migration can contribute OPENCity and disseminate best and consider the issues in relation Group is: Sofia, Poznan, and Vienna. The project towards city success. Emphasis is practice case studies under the three to the three identified strategic themes. Mohammed Tufail runs from December 2008 to placed on internationalisation and strategic themes of: The Cardiff OPENCities Local Support Jane Croad Chief Executive, June 2011. population strategies that will pose Group was tasked with identifying Senior Lecturer, Race Equality First migration as a competitive advantage for areas of best practice, current University of Wales Institute, Cardiff OPENCities sits under the URBACT II cities and, indirectly, help integration Leadership and Governance: initiatives, and key issues relating to Gaynor Williams programme, which encourages the and cohesion agendas. The project ‘openness’. Comprising key experts and Jonathan Day Delivery Manager, exchange of experience among consists of a number of core work Making the case for and setting the stakeholders in the field of economic Principal Economic & City Strategy Jobcentre Plus towns and cities and knowledge on areas which include cultural activities agenda for openness, developing long migration in the city of Cardiff, the group Officer, issues relating to sustainable urban and research, exchange of good term vision and strategy for an open provides insight into the issues that Cardiff Council Charles Willie development. Urban areas face major practice ideas and knowledge between city which is compelling, and influences migrants face when living in the city, and Chief Executive, challenges of dealing with poverty and the partner cities, as well as hands-on the action and behaviour of others. makes recommendations as to what the PC Vince Donovan Cardiff & Vale Coalition managing integration but at the same project work. Across Europe, the project Translation of such an agenda into city can do to ensure that migration has Community Engagement Officer, of Disabled People time they are the drivers of the European will contribute a significant body of programme, coalitions and a positive impact on the lives of all city South Wales Police economy and, in particular, of the new research into the impact of international organisational arrangements that can residents. Other stakeholders have also been knowledge-based industries. Exchange populations on cities, measuring how deliver the vision and strategy in the Tim Hartley involved in the various OPENCities of experience between cities under the ‘open’ cities are to accommodating new long-term. OPENCities partners are each required Head of Corporate Affairs, projects and activities undertaken. URBACT Programme helps to speed up populations. The project defines to develop a Local Action Plan to set out S4C the policy innovation process in each city. ‘openness’ as: how the city will address the economic The involvement of diverse stakeholders Internationalisation: and social challenges of becoming Richard Hooper – including economic and political actors The capacity Consideration of the extent to which a truly ‘open’ city. The Cardiff Local Territorial Co-operation Unit, and the general public – is essential. cities and metropolitan areas have Support Group has developed the action Wales European Funding Office of a city to transformed their provision and plan (see Appendix 1) and members will (Managing Authority for Wales) attract international offering to capitalise on international act as project champions, disseminating populations and opportunities (i.e. international the findings of the OPENCities project Anne Hubbard to enable them to connectivity, quality and scale of real to a wider local audience and helping Manager, estate, digital infrastructure, cultural to mobilise the political and institutional Wales Strategic Migration Partnership contribute to the provision, international media) support required to ensure that the future success action plan leads to real change. Rachel Jones of the city Strategy and Partnerships Manager, Integration and Inclusion: Cardiff Council Addressing the issues which arise as a result of increasing openness (i.e. Paul Keeping improving community relations and Equal Opportunities and Diversity improving the contribution of migrants Manager, to the economic, social and cultural Cardiff Council development of cities) For more information on the OPENCities project, please visit http://opencities.britishcouncil.org City Of Cardiff OPENCities Local Action Plan PAGE 6 PAGE 7 Developing the 2 Cardiff - an International Local Action Plan and Open City The OPENCities project in Cardiff is To deliver the vision, the What Matters As a city, Cardiff is still relatively young, As a capital city, Cardiff has a pivotal one of the ‘priority projects’ of the Strategy is focussing on improving seven but it is a city which has been shaped role to play in connecting Wales to Proud Capital Vision Forum, which is strategic outcomes for citizens, which by its migrant populations. The rapid the world. Through the talent and chaired by the Leader of Cardiff Council, are that: growth of Cardiff in the 19th century ideas of our people, Cardiff helps to Councillor Rodney Berman. The Vision necessitated a rapid growth of labour; put Wales on the international map Forum is Cardiff’s overarching strategic People in Cardiff are healthy workers from around the British Isles by promoting its strengths to a global partnership, bringing together public People in Cardiff have a clean, and across Europe moved to the town audience. In its role as the capital, service providers in the area and key attractive and sustainable environment in order to work on its docks. Migration developing an international profile is senior representatives of the business, People in Cardiff are safe and feel safe into the city continues to this day, with a key responsibility for Cardiff. In the voluntary and community sectors. Cardiff has a thriving and prosperous Cardiff welcoming people from Eastern future the cities with the best quality economy Europe in particular in recent years. of life will be those that are globally Under the direction of the Vision Forum, People in Cardiff achieve their full Cardiff is now a city characterised by connected - culturally, economically and public, private and third sector partners potential the diversity of its people, embracing a socially. This means developing city-to- have worked to improve collaboration Cardiff is a great place to live, work range of minority ethnic communities city links, as well as promoting the city across Cardiff. In 2010/11, partners and play with links across the world. Cardiff is as a welcoming and attractive location have developed a single integrated Cardiff is a fair, just and inclusive proud to be recognised as one of the for people to live, work and play. It is partnership strategy - called What society. UK’s first multicultural cities and people only by pursuing these ambitions that Matters - to set the future vision from across the globe come to live and Cardiff can genuinely be described for the city, uniting the efforts and Many of the issues facing economic study here. as an ‘open city’- open to trade, contributions of partnerships and partner migrants cut across all of the seven investment, companies, events, and organisations around a collective vision outcomes and require a multi-agency most importantly, to people and ideas. to deliver shared outcomes for response from a number of partner communities. The long-term vision for organisations in relation to core service the city is: delivery. It is for this reason that the OPENCities Local Action Plan will be firmly embedded within the widerWhat By 2020… Cardiff Matters Strategy and delivery plan to will be a world ensure that the actions are integrated within mainstream service provision. class European capital Many of the challenges which have been city with an exceptional fed identified in the production of quality of life and at the this action plan will be addressed through heart of a thriving What Matters and the activities identified within Appendix 1 will therefore form a city region.” component part of the What Matters Delivery Plan as opposed to being viewed as a stand-alone document.