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Fire Service Prince’s Trust Association

Fire Service Prince’s Trust Association . South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service Thursday 13 th January 2011. The Big Society January 2011. What is the Big Society?.

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Fire Service Prince’s Trust Association

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  1. Fire Service Prince’s Trust Association South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service Thursday 13th January 2011

  2. The Big Society January 2011

  3. What is the Big Society? Vision of a society where individuals and communities have more power and responsibility, and use it to create better neighbourhoods and local services.

  4. Rising long term unemployment Rises in VAT Rise in part time employment Potential rise in Youth Poverty Cuts to youth services e.g. Connexions Welfare reform Ministry of Justice reform Raising Participation Age to 19/ Apprenticeships What is the context for our client group?

  5. Philosophy of Big Society • Localism • Responsibility • Partnership • Payment by results • Value for money

  6. Vanguard areas Liverpool Eden Valley (Cumbria) Windsor and Maidenhead London Borough of Sutton Barrier Busting Unit Partnerships – Compact Participatory budgeting How Empower Society to Achieve?

  7. How Prince’s Trust involved? Youth Empowerment National Citizen Service Big Society Network Your Square Mile

  8. Youth Empowerment • Focus groups • Case studies Toxteth • Community Project at Mary Seacole, Granby Mental Health Centre for adults. The Team refurbished the kitchen and created a new arts room. • Refurbishment of Fire Fighters Memorial at Toxteth Cemetery. • Renovation and refurbishment of communal gardens at Beechwood Gardens, social housing complex part of Liverpool Mutual Homes housing portfolio.

  9. Your Square Mile • A “central nervous system for civic society.” • A brilliant digital platform and book that enables the interchange of ideas, advice, support and benefits to citizens throughout the UK : an i-phone for everyone’s apps. • A real-world presence in as many square miles of the UK as possible in the form of a Community Ideas and Activity Centre: a Big Society Marketplace. • A ring of supporters for local groups & social enterprises. • YSM will be a mutual, a “Union for Citizens.” • Every citizen in the UK aged over 16 can become a member for a very affordable fee e.g. £5 a year. • The aim is to increase the proportion of citizens engaged in social action/civil society by a factor of ten over five years. • Over 15 million members by 2020.

  10. Thoughts & Questions

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