Emma Sneyd shared stories of success, focusing on over eight years of partnership working on Bromley Farm in Congleton, Cheshire. There is more from Plus Dane and their neighbourhood investor approach at http://www.neighbourhoodinvestor.com/.
Emma’s presentation is accompanied by a booklet called Bromley farm: partnership working toolkit. You can contact Emma at Emma.Sneyd@neighbourhoodinvestor.com
Here are three short papers that summarise some important aspects of community development, developed by Annette Goldband:
· History
· Principles
· Pitfalls
As part of the continuing support offered by the FPM team to the local YPFN partnerships, the second of three national seminars was held on Community Development. You can follow the action in pictures here:
The Objectives of the day were:
The Outline of the day was:
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Community mapping Objectives: • Share practice • Gain common understanding of community and networks Task: • Community mapping – – Place own colour sticky dots to map people and places – Add traffic light postits to reflect levels of influence • Each comment and reflect on the action plan from last time and recent developments
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Stories of success Objectives: • Share and learn from practice • Explore and understand key principles of community development Task • Stories from the ‘hood: Bromley Farm • Adding to the learning – partnership reflections • Barriers and opportunities
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Community development thinking Principles and practice: some key points – History – Process and product – Traps and pitfalls – Community development – who for and by whom – Measuring success
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Circles of connection Objectives: • Map the local context • Explore and understanding influence and power Task: • Take own postits from earlier and then mark them on the circles of connection • Who’s missing? Who do you need to move inward or outward and how will we do it?
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Community development thinking Influence and power: some key points: • Influence and Power • Developing Groupwork – Life Space
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Community Development Skills Objectives: • Explore approaches to community development • Agree actions to take forward through YPFN Task • Map range of approaches and identify pattern • Plan approaches to build on and introduce • Explore merits and application of some approaches
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Community development thinking Community development risks and opportunities • Rights and citizenship • Arnstein’s ladder - Remember the window cleaner • The Matrix – thanks to Caitlin • Outcomes Based Accountability
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Next steps in community development • Agree next steps using action plan tool • Conclusions • Review and evaluation • Thank yous and plans for next time
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