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Our “Spotlight on Communities” event – 27 January 2017

February 8, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Access all the presentations from the day here on our post-event resources page HERE.

For us events are about the power of making connections – between the people in the room, between like-minded groups and networks – and within local communities.

Access all the presentations from the day here on our post-event resources page HERE.

Some call these ‘intentional networks’ – created through personal relationships, not structure charts – and for specific purposes as well as mutual support and professional development. Almost everyone among the seventy-five people in the room knew at least one other person, some knew many more.  A few discovered connections with people they initially thought were strangers.

Interests and goals overlapped.  The common thread was enabling individual citizens to have more influence over their neighbourhoods regardless of income, social status, skills, or confidence.

Real-life examples were shared from York the hosts, plus Barnsley, Wakefield, Durham, and Bradford.  The fact these places are relatively close made examples seem more relevant.

Most shared the view that these ways of working need human and financial resources to happen, but in today’s financial climate that requires strong arguments to budget holders and funders – based on hard, compelling evidence.  Experiences on this score were listened to with interest.

Many also shared the view that this is about more than minor adjustments to ways of working but something bigger, and more radical – a new mindset about how local amenities and services are controlled and delivered – and about the relationship between citizens and local government.

The day left us tired but inspired – and as ever, it sparked as many new questions as were answered – around demonstrating social value, partnerships with volunteers, sharing power, sharing budgets… 

The risk, is that conversations ends just as they start to get somewhere.  The true measure of success for days like this is whether we can find ways for those who took part to pick up the conversation another time, move forward, and draw new people and networks in.

So our final question is – who wants to host the next stage of this conversation?

To find out more about the event or help us plan another just drop a line to ben@neighbourhoodmanagement.net

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The Power of Connecting and Sharing: outputs from the State of Neighbourhood and Locality Working

July 9, 2016 by ben Leave a Comment

We have created a new page with all the presentations, downloads and links from our event on The State of Neighbourhood and Locality Working on Tuesday 14 June 2016, at The Bond Company, Birmingham

This event was all about  the power of connecting and sharing – especially for those involved in neighborhood and locality working, who are under more pressure than ever before to demonstrate the value of what they do.  Connnections map small

You can now access all the outputs from the event on our post-event page HERE.

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The State of Neighbourhood and Locality Working

May 23, 2016 by ben Leave a Comment

Full Agenda June 14 2016

Don't Stop BelievingOn Tuesday 14 June in Birmingham we are gathering professionals and community volunteers to take stock of The State of Neighbourhood and Locality Working. The response to this free event has already been fantastic and it is almost fully booked. We hope this reflects the enthusiasm people have to take stock with others working in similar ways across England, to find out how everyone else is demonstrating value, sharing innovation, and dealing with the pressures of spending cuts

We know those working in neighbourhoods and locality teams are often involved in some of the most important areas of public service innovation.

But they are also under greater pressure than ever to demonstrate impact and defend your approach.  At this one day open space event we hope to help share as many examples as possible of current practice and responses to these pressures. We have already got some great contributions:

  • How neighbourhood and locality teams can demonstrate their impact using technology like ‘Impact Apps‘
  • Different models of collaboration with communities- like Community Councils in London and Place Management in Birmingham
  • Contributing to wider community aims – such as helping schools engage locally, or working with the Police to prevent re-offending

There will also be skills and techniques workshops on:

  • defining and measuring outcomes and using theories of change
  • using simple tools for mapping community relationships and assets, and
  • creating digital stories of impact using everyday technology.

The aim is to share experiences, connect (or reconnect) practitioners in this unique area of public services. and build a national picture of impact of neighbourhood and locality working.

If you want to come then reserve a place now on our Eventbrite booking page – and if you cannot make it then watch this space for updates and more information about how to get involved.

Stay in touch,

The NANM team

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Giving Time event – presentations and resources now available

November 27, 2015 by ben Leave a Comment

 

Presentations, resources, and links to information from our Giving Time event on 19 November 2015 in Birmingham are now available.  CLICK HERE to read and download.

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Event: Giving time – can volunteers be nudged? 19th November, Birmingham

October 28, 2015 by ben Leave a Comment

Download the latest agenda for Giving Time here.

Giving time – can volunteers be nudged? A learning event about the Giving Time study – randomised experiments in interventions to encourage volunteering

10.30am – 4.00pm Thursday 19 November 2015, The Bond, Birmingham

In the latest of our ongoing series of free learning and networking events we are delighted to be working with the project team who led the Giving Time research into voluteering and volunteer recruitment.

The Giving Time experiments were led by a team from four UK universities, who wanted to know whether sharing information about how others have volunteered could help to improve volunteering.   Whereas previous studies have looked at giving money, this was about giving time – and whether volunteers can be nudged. The methodology was randomised control trial in real-life field settings involving university student volunteers, Parish Councils, National Trust volunteers, and housing association residents.  The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

A day designed to provoke discussion and ideas

We will have contributions from the research team, from organisations who took part, and others involved in citizen science, story-telling, and community animation.  Presenters and participants will mingle in fast-paced workshops ranging from Q&As, to participative and arts-inspired formats. Focal questions will include:

  • Can social information change behaviour among volunteers – can volunteers be nudged?
  • Is there potential for large-scale citizen-science replications of these experiments?
  • What effect did sharing information have on time-giving in the case of Parish Councillors?
  • What are the challenges of organising large scale RCTs for volunteering organisations?
  • Why was peer endorsement in some cases a turn-off and not an incentive?

Reserve a place on Eventbrite using this link.

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