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Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee

Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee. Peter Allan Community Planning Manager Dundee Partnership and Dundee City Council. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee. National Principles Mainstreaming the Fairer Scotland Fund - Targeted activity - Funding communities

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Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee

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  1. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee Peter Allan Community Planning Manager Dundee Partnership and Dundee City Council

  2. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee • National Principles • Mainstreaming the Fairer Scotland Fund - Targeted activity - Funding communities - A project in detail • Challenges ahead

  3. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee Equal Communities in a Fairer Scotland Principles • Root causes – not symptoms • Early intervention in vulnerable communities • Effective joint-working including Voluntary and Private Sectors • Improving employment and employability • Community empowerment and influencing CPPs

  4. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee Fairer Scotland Fund in Dundee • £8m per year till 2010/11 • 80+ projects • 5 Community Regeneration Forums • Ring fence removed in April 2010

  5. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee Community Regeneration Forums • Five across city based on SIMD 15% • Each with budget of £150,000 p.a. • Only community members can vote • Physical improvements, youth work and small grants • Endorsed through Dundee City Council

  6. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee Dundee Healthy Living Initiative • Health improvement – targeted • Whole lives – not just health • Social opportunities crucial to mental well-being • Exercise, healthy eating, taking classes, giving talks, leading walking groups etc • Having a laugh

  7. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee DHLI – lessons • Innovative community engagement • Creating connections and referrals • Influencing mainstream service providers • Influencing voluntary organisations However … • Assume responsibility for partners • Connections go both ways • Ticks the box • Quality costs

  8. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee So what happened? • Evaluation of all FSF activity • 58 projects continue - £5.4m (savings approx £1m) • Maintained focus on SIMD areas • Maintained funding commitment to community regeneration activity • Council projects mainstreamed and “notionally ringfenced” • Voluntary projects given 3 year funding • 6 Community Regeneration Forums sharing £750,000

  9. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee Challenges • Right approach – rotten timing? • Inequalities to get worse? • Responding to statutory duties? • Retreating to silos and finding savings in house? • Employment and opportunities to reduce? • Communities not engaged in big decisions?

  10. Principles Root causes – not symptoms Early intervention in vulnerable communities Effective joint-working including Voluntary and Private Sectors Improving employment and employability Community empowerment and influencing CPPs Challenges Inequalities to get worse? Responding to crises? Reverting to statutory duties? Retreating to silos and finding savings in house? Employment and opportunities to reduce? Communities not engaged in big decisions? Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee A real test .....

  11. Mainstreaming Community Regeneration in Dundee Now more than ever … • We need to learn and integrate lessons • We need to consider financial solutions collectively • Disadvantaged could fall much further behind • People in deprived areas have the right to influence decisions which will seriously affect them

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