Housing

We held three national seminars in Leeds, London and Birmingham in March, involving about 60 social housing leaders with the three aims:

§  To explore learning from Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods for sustainable youth support in neighbourhoods and communities;

§  To consider organisational models for securing long term solutions and the role and place of housing associations and RSLs;

§  To determine the elements of strategic leadership required to build the case internally and the partnerships externally.

 

Housing leaders were keen to build momentum, including through a May residential for managers, sharing messages within government, promoting a community of practice through the National Housing Federation, collaborating with Chartered Institute of Housing on professional development and sharing learning more widely from the YPFN programme.

 

This is short report summarises findings from each event. Further information is available from www.ypfn.posterous.com and on Twitter at #ypfn. To keep in touch and for further information contact Bill Badham: bill@practicalparticipation.co.uk

 

Community Activism in Torbay - a short summary of what we did over 2 days

As part of the national Young People Friendly Neighbourhoods programme, we have created a community activism resource to support local communities to indentify concerns and take action to achieve change.

The resource was written by Bill Badham, based on Act by Right (www.actbyright.org.uk). Residents and workers from Torbay helped create the outline and trialled it in April 2012.

This short video describes this new Community Activism resource.

The video tells the story of the journey that residents and workers went on in exploring a simple 5 stage process:

  • Getting to know each other and representing others
  • Getting to know the community
  • Getting ready for action
  • Campaigning for change
  • Finding out what's changed.

The resource is being tweaked to draw on the learning from this first outing and will soon be available free for wider use.

Photos of the two day event are at