Twenty residents in Tower Hamlets, east London celebrated last week as they graduated from a free employment and training course. The ‘community champions’ programme is run by local housing and regeneration group East Thames and designed to tackle unemployment and equip people with the skills and knowledge to bring about positive changes in their community. Course participants were trained to survey local residents and get their feedback on the estate’s £200 million regeneration programme. Read more
Community Organiser programme begins
Locality – formed by the merging of the Development Trusts Association and Bassac – is set to deliver and train the 5,000 Community Organisers. The network of community led organisations, will develop a training framework and help individuals, and community organisers that play an important role in delivering the Big Society. Click here for the full story
