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Attitudinal Barriers. Economic deprivation and people precedent Mental geography Space and safety Educational disconnection and parents. Community Twinning. Construction of Community Garden
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Attitudinal Barriers • Economic deprivation and people precedent • Mental geography • Space and safety • Educational disconnection and parents
Community Twinning • Construction of Community Garden • Opportunity to engage in new outdoor activities i.e planning crops, environmental impact, sustainable living and healthy eating
Community Twinning • Encourage intergenerational activities, transfer of skills and experiences • Partnership working with existing projects, particularly with individuals with LDD, challenging stereotypes, bridging gaps and strengthening equality and diversity
Community Pledge • Stronger social networks • Increased aspirations and beliefs of young people and parents • Clear aims and objectives associated with the programme • Sustainability
Participatory budget • Holder House Community Project • SSCS Innovations • Harton Moor Residents Association • Blue Venture • Learning Resource Centre
Intergenerational Volunteering Generation Games Mutual understanding and respect between generations, sharing cultural and social experiences, increase in volunteering opportunities, enhancing skills and work opportunities • Carpet Bowles • Knitting • Gardening • Cooking • Bollywood
Intergenerational Volunteering Knitting • 8 Students and 7 community members volunteered to take part in Knitting club, based within the Business Enterprise Centre Carpet Bowles • 9 pupils from SSCS were given the opportunity to learn how to carpet bowl
Intergenerational Volunteering Gardening • 8 Students and 6 community members volunteered to take part in Gardening Club and called themselves the “GO GO Gardeners” • Cooking – follow on from Gardening, working with foods found in the garden, 10 students and 6 community members. • Bollywood – Scheduled to start in February
Outdoor Activities Summer Football Scheme • The event was organised during the summer holidays to encourage individuals to work as teams, with members of the community they wouldn’t usually work with. The event promoted soft skills, how to identify these skills and use them in everyday life
Outdoor Activities Thurston • Activities include rock climbing, canoeing, sailing, • Classroom based tasks team building and confidence levels • Evaluation techniques
Raising Aspirations • Take Your Family to Work – new cultural experiences, meeting people from a variation of organisation. • Raising Aspirations Event – engaging local business into school and providing role models. • Skills Circus – family members learn new skills in a variety of areas with their children, raising adult and children's aspirations.
Sustainability • Developed a Community Interest Company Benefits include; Apply for external funding opportunities Further skills and development in business enterprise • Community Garden • International exchange programme
IMPACT • Improved reading ages and educational attainment • Decrease in Anti Social Behaviour • Increased engagement/participation in community • Attitudes and Behaviour • Aspiration levels • Reduction in absence rate • Increased take up of FE/HE opportunities • Increased confidence and self esteem • Role models and enhancement of transferable skills