The Essex Local Delivery Pilot is part of a national pilot to create population level changes in physical activity. Over the past 30 years traditional approaches by lottery funders and sport and physical activity organisations has not shifted the stubborn levels of physical inactivity, hovering between 25% and 30% of all adults. As we all know, child obesity is also worsening across the country. A new approach is required.
The Essex LDP has decided to put system change at the heart of all its work and Asset Based Community Development is proving a valuable tool in the work. ABCD challenges the traditional deficit-based approach by demonstrating that local assets (people, physical assets etc.) and individual strengths are key to ensuring sustainable community development, and that people have a life of their own choosing.
So far, the impact has been significant. The work has been led by Chris Chinnock from Nurture Development, who has trained and mentored more than 300 people already involved with the LDP. Chris explains: “Too often, organisations assume they know what local communities need. They focus on what’s wrong, not what’s strong. Adopting an ABCD approach is uplifting for everyone. It focuses on the passions of local people and the power of social networks; where public sector organisations are equal partners in any new developments, not in control. In many cases the solutions are already present within communities, often hidden from organisations who have been too focussed on finding problems to fix, rather than working alongside communities already creating change for themselves”.
The LDP is now playing to the ABCD tune, seeking out ‘unusual suspects’, working hard at building relationships and trust, co-producing ideas and projects, and embracing innovation, risk and failure.
Chris and the LDP will be running a workshop at the Essex Assembly for those keen to learn more about ABCD. If you would like to book on to Essex Assembly and have not received an invite please contact Essex.Partners@essex.gov.uk
Instagram have announced the rollout of the Donate Sticker in the UK. Previously only available in the US, the sticker can be added to Instagram stories by anyone to allow donations to be fed directly into a campaign or organisation.
This toolkit will equip you with the next steps, best practice and a walk through guide to make the most of this exciting new feature.
Learn more with Media Trust’s next Digital Skills Training event with Google coming up in London on 10 October 2019
This is an exciting time for us, as we look to publicly launch The Essex Map and review how we work with charities, social enterprises, and community and voluntary organisations across the county.
To help us maximise our effectiveness, we are currently looking for people with a passion for connecting communities in Essex to join our Steering Group.
If you’d like to join us, and help shape how we build our community of communities, please complete the form below. Once completed, this will be reviewed by our existing Steering Group members at our next meeting on 6th August 2019.
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This is an exciting time for us, as we look to publicly launch The Essex Map and review how we work with charities, social enterprises, and community and voluntary organisations across the county.
To help us maximise our effectiveness, we are currently looking for people with a passion for connecting communities in Essex to join our Steering Group.
If you’d like to join us, and help shape how we build our community of communities, please complete the form below. Once completed, this will be reviewed by our existing Steering Group members at our next meeting on 6th August 2019.
Community Foundation’s across the UK are working with the Charity Commission to reinvigorate trusts that may have become dormant or are not achieving their full potential.
Trustees are encouraged to contact their local community foundation if they are struggling to spend their income, find beneficiaries or recruit new trustees.
To read the article, click here. To discuss how ECF can work with trustees of existing trusts to award grants in line with original objectives, please call us on 01245 355947.
This is an exciting time for us, as we look to publicly launch The Essex Map and review how we work with charities, social enterprises, and community and voluntary organisations across the county.
To help us maximise our effectiveness, we are currently looking for people with a passion for connecting communities in Essex to join our Steering Group.
If you’d like to join us, and help shape how we build our community of communities, please complete the form below. Once completed, this will be reviewed by our existing Steering Group members at our next meeting on 6th August 2019.
The Essex Alliance are proud to announce that we have launched The Essex Map – a community asset map of our county.
The Essex Map is designed to give our local residents a better understanding of the services available across our county, and help them to connect with these services. Users can search by location, category, and keyword tag to discover the wide variety of charities, social enterprises, community groups, and venues available to them.
As a member organisation of The Essex Alliance, we would like to invite you to add your listing(s) and showcase the work you are doing in Essex. You can add as many listings you like, and manage them from a single login – meaning it’s easy to keep all of your details up-to-date.
To add your listing, please visit The Essex Map website and follow the steps below:
Enter the details of your service, including up to 15 keyword tags that people might use to search for your service (e.g. ADHD support)
Click “Save and Preview” to see how your listing will look
If you would like to alter any details, click “Edit Listing” to go back to the previous screen
If you are happy with your listing, click “Submit Listing”
Your listing will then be reviewed by one of our team, and you will receive an email once your listing is live on the website
If you have any questions regarding The Essex Map, including advice on how to make the most of your listing, please do not hesitate to email us.
We hope that you will find The Essex Map to be a useful promotional tool for your organisation, but if you have any suggestions on how we can further improve this service please email us.
The recent Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Conference – Delivering through Partnerships – shone the spotlight on the breadth of partnership work making communities safer.
A focus on gangs and vulnerability, community safety and diversionary programmes provided hard-hitting insight for the more than 200 delegates attending.
The PFCC for Essex, Roger Hirst, told emergency service personnel, MPs and representatives from local authorities, town and parish councils, health, education, voluntary, the business sector and community organisations that by working together on intervention programmes, they are making a difference.
Exhibition stands, and an array of lightning talks introduced a number of partnership interventions taking place; The Essex Centre for Data Analytics; The Horizon Project by Phoenix Futures; Challenging Myths / Changing Attitudes in Thurrock; Street, Rail, School Pastors; Sensory Services; and Safe, Well and Secure by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.
Delegates had the opportunity to take part in a programme of workshops, including a Designing Out Crime session – delivered in partnership by Essex Police and Essex Partners as part of the Essex Communities programme. Delegates were challenged to take a whole system view to the decisions made as part of the planning process now, that would reduce crime for future generations.
The next Essex Assembly will take place on Tuesday 17 September 2019.
We’ll be exploring how together the Essex system can unite behind a sense of identity and strengthen communities through participation.
Citizens from across Essex will share their views on; how they identity with Essex; relationships within their communities; and building trust with the public sector. Their views will be captured by the ‘in conversation with…’ programme that is taking place this Summer when senior leaders will be out and about in Essex talking to citizens.
Attendees at the September Essex Assembly will also shape plans to celebrate the county’s rich history of achievement through the lens of Essex 2020 and engage citizens in the Future of Essex narrative.
Hold the date 17 September, 12-4.30pm Chelmsford City Racecourse. Invitations will be issued shortly. For more information email essex.partners@essex.gov.uk
