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Seven stories of localism – Workshop resources available

July 21, 2014 by Paul Leave a Comment

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On 8 July, 64 people descended on Birmingham to hear and share stories of localism and co-production as the culmination of a month of activities exploring research into models of localism and co-production undertaken over the previous two years by researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham.

Read more about the day, the research that prompted it, resources shared and reflections captured here. Get a flavour of the stories shared from the visual minutes below.

Birmingham's online communities - (digital) stockpots of social capital
York City Council - Le conte de le Tour de Tang Hall
Turning Point - using commissioned services to shift power
Birmingham City Council - changing how the council engages neighbourhoods
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing - often the smallest issues count not the biggest
Stewkley Parish Council - grass mowing as the start of a new model
Castle Vale Partnership - co-production borne out o f communities wanting to take change
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NANM network survey 2014: What did we learn?

June 4, 2014 by Paul Leave a Comment

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Earlier this year we invited members of the NANM network – people who have come to NANM events, read the NANM newswire, follow @NM_Association on Twitter or just keep an eye on the NANM web site – to complete an online survey. The purpose of the survey was to find out more about who currently makes up the NANM network, after a period of some considerable change, and how you would like to engage with NANM and other network members. Promotion was relatively low key. A link from the NANM website, mention in the Newswire and a follow-up mailing, and promoted in a few Tweets.

This was the first NANM survey for over two years and as ever we are deeply grateful to all those who responded. The responses we did get were full and enthusiastic.

So what did we learn?       

  • NANM Newswire is the main way most people currently engage with NANM, although nearly half of respondents also mentioned NANM’s learning events
  • There is scope to develop the usefulness of the NANM web site, and Twitter emerges as the least engaging of NANM’s communication channels (amongst respondents and in terms of encouraging people to complete the survey)
  • People responding to the survey suggested that NANM should develop its offer in three areas:
    • Support for knowledge sharing: Providing access to information, developing case studies, making connections and offering advice
    • Opportunities for learning: Bringing people together to learn (recognising that there are currently severe constraints on funds for learning, including travel)
    • National profile: Using NANM’s national profile to support neighbourhood action.
  • Suggested topics around which to share learning ranged from understanding the causes of neighbourhood decline, through particular challenges people were facing (how to get employment support into estates, how neighbourhood planning can help local enterprise, how to get allotments going) to the best way to demonstrate the value of neighbourhood working and make the case for continued investment
  • A number of those responding to the survey offered to share their own projects and experience, by providing an article for the web site or speaking at events
  • Looking to the future slightly more people were positive about the future than were not, although about 30% said there were just too many variables.


You can read a more detailed summary of the survey findings in this short report. [download id=”65″]

We’d love to hear your responses. Do the findings ring true? Are you involved in projects that you think could help other network members (and would you be willing to write or talk about your experience)? Are there issues that weren’t picked up?

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Filed Under: Featured, NANM related, NANM surveys, Research Tagged With: NANM network, research, survey

Take the NANM network quick survey 2013 -14!

December 18, 2013 by Paul Leave a Comment

It is now more than two years since we last carried out a survey of members of the NANM network, during which there has been a lot of change.


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Through this survey we are keen to find out more about the current NANM network – people who come to NANM events, read the NANM newswire, follow @NM_Association on Twitter or just keep an eye on this web site. If any of these describe you we want to hear from you.

What we learn from responses will both help us to develop what we do as an association in the future and to better represent neighbourhood working to others. This is a short survey. It won’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. Deadline for responses is Thursday 30 January 2014.
Click here to take the survey

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DIY neighbourhoods, open space, and new challenges #diylocal

October 20, 2012 by ben Leave a Comment

This week’s open space in Bradford was a great start to a new kind of NANM-hosted gathering – of which we hope to host more. Firstly a huge thank you is due to @MichaelaHowell2 and her colleauges at Bradford Trident for hosting us.

Secondly, this post is just a snapshot of the discussion, if you were there, or just interested then please do comment or link to your own thoughts.

We chose the title Neighbourhoods and DIY local democracy because we thought it captured both the growth in different forms of local decision-making, and the fact that it is increasing up to communities not just what decisions they take, but how those decisions are taken. We also thought it was a useful place to start a discussion.

And so it was.  [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Event, NANM related, News, Uncategorized Tagged With: communities, community budgets, Localism, NANM, neighbourhood, Neighbourhood management, participation

Neighbourhoods and D.I.Y. local democracy

September 2, 2012 by ben Leave a Comment

We’re holding an open space workshop on Tuesday 16 October at the Park Lane Centre, Bradford (the home of Bradford Trident)

We want to know whether localism is increasing freedom not just over what decisions can be taken by communities, but how those decisions are actually taken? We want to test the idea that an era of ‘do it yourself democracy’ is approaching, and whether it is starting (it would make sense if it were) at the neighbourhood level?

How would it be if every neighbourhood in your town had a different model of local democracy and if some parts of the town had designed their own democracy? Would it matter if in the street where you live a traditional neighbourhood council looks after the local park, and cuts the grass, while a mile away residents have voted-in powers for their neighbourhood council to collect £30 a year to do all kinds of other things like keeping the local library open?  What if in another part of your town a group of local volunteers had formed a group which now takes decisions over grittier-sounding issues like getting unemployed households into work, or reducing deaths from heart disease?  And what if another neighbourhood group seemed to be making more practical difference than everyone else put together, having started a food-growing business using £1 million they had been given to invest?

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Filed Under: Event, NANM related, News Tagged With: Big Local, budgeting, communities, democracy, neighbourhoods, parish council

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