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Stockport black and minority ethnic childrens' project
By Nick Beddow, Stockport MBC, October 2007 - This is the story of how black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in Stockport have worked together, with community development support, to show the human meaning of some grand ideas - community cohesion and social inclusion. Since 2004, Stockport's B&ME communities have been using Childrens Fund money to support their childrens' activities, leading to the award of Learning Exemplar status at the RENEW Northwest Exemplar event in November 2006.
Culture Led Regeneration & Local Art Communities
Phil Northall, Policy Researcher, CLES, October 2007 - Liverpool will be the first city in the UK to experience this newly refocused ECOC programme, when it hosts the event in 2008. As preparations for the event reach boiling point (the finalised programme is due for discussion with the City Council next month), this Local Work intends to assess the role of culture, and in particular large-scale events such as Liverpool 2008, in cities. The primary concern in this paper is the impact that such events have on local arts and culture communities, the one group who would be expected to benefit the most from a year-long event focusing on the promotion of local culture.
New Era, New Approaches: Creative and Collaborative Economic Development
By Matthew Jackson, Senior Policy Researcher, CLES, September 2007 - The way in which economic development, both strategy and interventions, are developed governed and delivered in the UK is changing. We are beginning to move away from the more traditional, centrally led approaches to economic development such as inward investment, civic boosterism, and support for the manufacturing and service industries, towards more creative, localised, flexible and collaborative approaches whereby local authorities and groups of local authorities are able to shape economic development by responding specifically to the global and local drivers that influence their local economies. With this is mind the purpose of this Local Work is to identify and provide commentary on creative and collaborative approaches to economic development.
Evaluation and Local Area Regeneration
By Ray Holden, June 2007 - This Local Work: Voice is concerned with evaluation and how to improve the way in which findings inform existing activities, future plans, the activities of partner organisations and of course wider policy. As a not for profit think tank and consultancy, CLES is very much concerned with evaluation, improving interventions so that their effect is maximised and they focus on improving the lives of the most deprived and the sharing of best practice as well as ensuring that evaluations inform national policy and strategy with experience gained from activity on the ground. In addition, CLES has considerable experience of providing policy and project evaluations and continually looks to make the connections between activity on the ground and local, national and regional policy.
Supporting foreign nationals in UK prisons, community cohesion and regeneration: the links
By Sarah Macleod, CLES consulting, April 2007 - Cohesive communities, where people feel safe, have a sense of belonging, value diversity, and have a wide range of life choices and opportunities, are essential to the development of truly sustainable communities and as such to regeneration. However, segregation and a lack of cohesion can act as barriers to this. In this Local Work: Findings we will look at how the issue of foreign national in UK prisons relates to the processes of regeneration and neighbourhood renewal.
Well-being and regeneration
By Nicola Steuer, Centre for Well-being, new economics foundation, March 2007 - This Local Work: Voice introduces some of the findings from the field of well-being (and happiness) research and suggests ‘well-being’ adds valuable insights for how we both deliver regeneration and asses its impacts in the UK. It is recognised that ‘well-being’ can be a difficult term given its use in a whole range of contexts but it is used here to complement existing notions of quality of life within the regeneration sector and to offer new insights into people’s experience of their quality of life.
Wherever I go, there I am. But where am I?
By Patrick Hanfling, Manchester City Council, February 2007 - This Local Work is about the connection between people and place and what happens there. Everyone experiences and interprets a place in different ways as individuals and groups of individuals. A person’s cultural background, interests, lifestyles and personal experience all influence sense of place, as does the city’s natural and built environment. It is the combination of the physical environment and personal experiences that forms Sense of Place.
The Regeneration Skills Agenda
By Tony Baldwinson, RENEW Northwest, December 2006 - This Local Work Voice looks at how the regeneration sector is responding to the Egan Review of skills. A key finding by the Egan Skills Reviewii in 2004 was that while professionals have very good 'hard skills' within our particular competence, it is our 'soft skills' which need to be developed further - communicating better with communities, working better as a team, managing successful projects, coping with unexpected barriers and poor behaviours and more besides.
Making the Links: Corporate Social Responsibility and Neighbourhood Renewal
By Stuart MacDonald, CLES and Louise Hawson, LH Consulting, September 2006 - This Local Work looks at how - and why - involvement in local regeneration fits into businesses' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies, and at the role business can play in helping to deliver neighbourhood renewal. It draws on some of the experiences of CLES Consulting, looking at the practicalities of how partnerships between the public and private sector can work, and examining some of the challenges of weaving together CSR and neighbourhood renewal.
Challenges for delivery: the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector
By Matthew Jackson, Policy Researcher, CLES, August 2006 - The VCS and the social enterprise sector have long been seen as separate entities. With Government policy for the VCS residing in the Home Office, and now the DCLG, and policy for Social Enterprise being located in the DTI, there has been little opportunity for joined up strategy.
CLES Commendations 2010
Three projects received commendations at this year's CLES Summit - Grow (Hull); The Star Inn (Salford) and East Lindsey Active (Lincolnshire).
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Local Economic Assessment Network
CLES has launched its national Local Economic Assessment Network.
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Wellbeing Evaluation
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HCA Placemaking Practice Review Panel
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