A report prepared by Rob Hindle and Alison McLean (January 2011).
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Community led planning – what role in urban areas?
Posted by Denise Taylor on 11th March 2011Personalisation TSEPI Project – Staffordshire
Posted by Denise Taylor on 7th March 2011Lichfield and District Community & Voluntary Support
Working in partnership with Staffordshire County Council this project aimed for varied outcomes: empowering people as a means of giving them choice and using the focus on personalisation as a means of bringing organisations up to speed so that they can thrive in the new environment.
This focus reflected a concern that support services would be lost and the empowerment that personalisation was meant to bring to individuals would not be realised.
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Coventry Target Support for Empowerment and Participation Improvement: Case Study Evaluation
Posted by Denise Taylor on 1st March 2011This short review presents the findings of an overview evaluation of the TSEPI projects carried out through the Coventry Partnership between 2010 and 2011.
Read the case study evaluation (doc, 389kb)
Building Social Capital – Deelands Hall Project
Posted by Denise Taylor on 15th February 2011Background
Deelands Tenants Hall is currently owned by the City Council and funded through the Northfield Constituency’s Community Development budget. This budget incorporated costs for utilities, rates and small scale repair and maintenance work. The hall is located on the Cock Hill Estate within one of Birmingham City Council’s 31 priority neighbourhoods. With the lack of an active third sector within and around the estate, the 2009-2011 Neighbourhood Management Plan identified the hall as the key vehicle for local community regeneration through consultation and engagement. Currently, the hall has very limited community use (on average 5 hours per week).
The hall’s facilities include an indoor hall, office, music studio, garden area and multi use games areas (not floodlit).
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Co-Production in Practice
Posted by Denise Taylor on 14th February 2011Chamberlain Forum
The term ‘co-production’ was coined originally at the University of Indiana in the 1970s when Professor Elinor Ostrom was asked to explain to the Chicago police why the crime rate went up when the police came off the beat and into patrol cars. She used the term as a way of explaining why the police need the community as much as the community need the police.
This project looked at Public Services as almost anything we do which depends on other people. The project set out to explore and highlight cases in the West Midlands region, looking at the old NI 4 authorities and interpreting past experience through round table discussions.
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Birmingham Women Take Part
Posted by Denise Taylor on 13th February 2011In May 2010, with initial support from the BCC Community Empowerment Lead, and funding from the Target Support for Empowerment and Participation Improvement (TSEPI) Fund and then financial support from Be Birmingham, WiRED launched the Birmingham Women Take Part (BWTP) Programme.
A twelve session programme aimed at BAME women across the city, the programme was designed to bring together women from diverse communities to encourage them, inspire them and to equip them to take part in and influence decision making processes.
The programme proposal entailed training, support and mentoring for women around issues of citizenship, personal development and social transformation. Women were given the opportunity to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to increase their participation in community activity and in influencing the decisions that affect them. The programme was underpinned by community development values and utilised the approach of the ALAC initiative (Active Learning for Active Citizenship) now known as the Take Part framework www.takepart.org.
Read the full Birmingham Women Take Part Evaluation Report (doc, 266kb)
Getting involved in decision making with Birmingham City Council
Posted by Denise Taylor on 12th February 2011Background statistics showed that there were thematic groups who didn’t get involved in decision making and the City wasn’t able to do as much work in this area as it wanted. The Target Support for Empowerment and Participation Improvement (TSEPI) fund enabled a number of activities targeting specific thematic groups.