Transforming Neighbourhoods: Local work

Learning from what is happening on the ground in communities was an integral part of the Transforming Neighbourhoods programme. Between April 2005 and March 2006 the Young Foundation worked with 15 different local authorities on a series of projects exploring the challenges, opportunities and obstacles to effective neighbourhood working in different places. This work falls into four main themes:

1. Defining the local authority’s offer to neighbourhoods
2. The role of the frontline councillor
3. Embedding community engagement and involvement in local decision-making
4. Developing and implementing new structures for empowering communities

A summary of the findings from the local work will be available to download here in July 2007. You can download individual local work reports below:

1. Defining the local authority’s offer to neighbourhoods
• Exploring the local implications of the white paper and neighbourhood charters in Liverpool (2006/7)
• Embedding locality working in service planning in Sheffield (2006/7)
• Neighbourhood influence over devolved Local Area Agreements in Birmingham (2006/7)
• Exploring the feasibility of a district-wide model for local charters in Staffordshire (2006/7)
• Developing community involvement in public services in Suffolk (2006/7)
• Exploring the role of the local area partnerships steering groups in designing local activities in Tower Hamlets (2006/7)
• Supporting the Mayor’s commission on neighbourhoods in Lewisham (2006/7)
• Improving relationships between local authority area structures and neighbourhood organisations in Sheffield (2005/6)
• Developing a neighbourhood partnership in Kings Cross (2005/6)

2. The role of the frontline councillor
• Helping members to work effectively in localities in Haringey (2006/7)
• Local work in Wakefield: exploring the role of members in neighbourhood governance (2006/7)
• Developing the role of frontline councillors in Waltham Forest (2006/7)
• Exploring the member perspective on neighbourhood arrangements in Surrey (2006/7)
• Stronger relationships between community activists and elected members in Lewisham (2005/6)
• Using community forums and elected members to engage Newham residents in the Olympics (2005/6)
• Improving relationships between local authority area structures and neighbourhood organisations in Sheffield (2005/6)
• Tools to support frontline councillors in Wiltshire (2006/7)

3. Embedding community engagement and involvement in local decision-making
• Neighbourhood influence over devolved Local Area Agreements in Birmingham (2006/7)
• Improving relationships between local authority area structures and neighbourhood organisations in Sheffield (2005/6)
• New frameworks for empowering communities in Surrey (2005/6)
• Developing community involvement in public services in Suffolk (2006/7)
• Exploring the local implications of the white paper and neighbourhood charters in Liverpool (2006/7)
• Using community forums and elected members to engage Newham residents in the Olympics (2005/6)
• Developing a neighbourhood partnership in Kings Cross (2005/6)

4. Developing and implementing new structures for empowering communities
• Implementing a new neighbourhood management structure in Northumberland Park and White Hart Lane, Haringey (2005/6)
• New frameworks for empowering communities in Surrey (2005/6)
• Developing a neighbourhood partnership in Kings Cross (2005/6)
• Maximising town and parish council involvement in community planning in Wiltshire (2005/6)
• Improving relationships between local authority area structures and neighbourhood organisations in Sheffield (2005/6)
• Tools to support frontline councillors in Wiltshire (2006/7) 

You can also search for your reports about our practical projects by location

For more information contact Vicki Savage vicki.savage(AT)youngfoundation.org