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Your Choice, Your Voice. Richard Downing Community Engagement Manager Leicestershire County Council. Your Choice, Your Voice. Leicestershire Together has made £20,000 available to each of Charnwood’s 7 Area Forums for allocation through a Participatory Process
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Your Choice, Your Voice Richard Downing Community Engagement Manager Leicestershire County Council
Your Choice, Your Voice • Leicestershire Together has made £20,000 available to each of Charnwood’s 7 Area Forums for allocation through a Participatory Process • Money has to be spent by March 2011 • Participatory Process agreed through Charnwood Together
Your Choice, Your Voice - Process • Charnwood Together set priorities • • Supporting and developing young people • • Improving access to services • • Making the area safer • Workshop – Generating & sharing ideas & putting them in order of priority • 18 project ideas put forward • 9 projects put to final vote • Priority ideas developed further into robust projects – co-ordinated by Task Group • Feedback from Task Group to Area Forum on how funding can be allocated in line with the workshop priorities • Charnwood Together agrees allocation of funding, in line with the recommendation by the Area Forum
Your Choice, Your Voice • Task Group – Role: • Work with project groups to ensure that priority projects are • APPROPRIATE • in line with the 3 priorities for the area • not duplicating, value for money • FEASIBLE • Can project be delivered by March 2011 • SUSTAINABLE • Does project provide real solution with longer term benefit • Will project lead to problems further down the line
Your Choice, Your Voice After the workshops… Priority Projects Project Development TASK GROUP co-ordinates Forum Recommends allocation LSP Decides allocation Other Project Ideas Signposting Ideas are circulated to various funders, advisors and relevant officers to identify further opportunities for funding & support
Your Choice, Your Voice Updates at the next Area Forum & on the Community Forum Website www.leicestershireforums.org