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Your Choice, Your Voice. Leicestershire Together has made £20,000 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.
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Your Choice, Your Voice • Leicestershire Together has made £20,000 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 • Creating a cleaner, greener, safer environment • Improving facilities available for children and young people in the Forum area • Improving Shepshed Town Centre • Workshop – Generating & sharing ideas & putting them in order of priority • 11project 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
Workshop feedback Do you agree with the following statement? • I really enjoyed today’s workshop and I am glad I attended? 83% AGREED 0% Disagreed • I felt I had plenty of opportunity to share my ideas today 89% AGREED 3% Disagreed • I felt the way projects were prioritised was fair and inclusive? 74% AGREED 6% Disagreed
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 • 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 • What are we doing today? • Report from the Task Group on progress with the Priority Projects identified at the workshop • Task Group has made recommendations on how best to allocate the Forum’s budget in line with the results of the workshop • With Forum’s endorsement these recommendations will be passed to Charnwood Together for formal decision making
Your Choice, Your Voice Updates at the next Area Forum & on the Community Forum Website www.leicestershireforums.org