Transcript Inspiring Communities East Shields

Attitudinal Barriers
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Economic deprivation and people precedent
Mental geography
Space and safety
Educational disconnection and parents
Community Twinning
• Construction of
Community Garden
• Opportunity to engage
in new outdoor
activities i.e planning
crops, environmental
impact, sustainable
living and healthy
eating
Community Twinning
• Encourage
intergenerational
activities, transfer of
skills and experiences
• Partnership working
with existing projects,
particularly with
individuals with LDD,
challenging stereotypes,
bridging gaps and
strengthening equality
and diversity
Community Pledge
• Stronger social networks
• Increased aspirations and beliefs of young people
and parents
• Clear aims and objectives associated with the
programme
• Sustainability
Participatory budget
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Holder House Community Project
SSCS Innovations
Harton Moor Residents Association
Blue Venture
Learning Resource Centre
Intergenerational Volunteering
Generation Games
Mutual understanding and respect between generations,
sharing cultural and social experiences, increase in
volunteering opportunities, enhancing skills and work
opportunities
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Carpet Bowles
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Knitting
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Gardening
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Cooking
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Bollywood
Intergenerational Volunteering
Carpet Bowles
• 9 pupils from SSCS were given
the opportunity to learn how to
carpet bowl
Knitting
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8 Students and 7 community
members volunteered to take
part in Knitting club, based
within the Business
Enterprise Centre
Intergenerational Volunteering
Gardening
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8 Students and 6 community
members volunteered to take part
in Gardening Club and called
themselves the “GO GO Gardeners”
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Cooking – follow on from
Gardening, working with foods
found in the garden, 10 students
and 6 community members.
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Bollywood – Scheduled to start in
February
Outdoor Activities
Summer Football Scheme
• The event was organised during the summer
holidays to encourage individuals to work as
teams, with members of the community they
wouldn’t usually work with. The event promoted
soft skills, how to identify these skills and use
them in everyday life
Outdoor Activities
Thurston
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Activities include rock
climbing, canoeing,
sailing,
Classroom based tasks
team building and
confidence levels
Evaluation techniques
Raising Aspirations
• Take Your Family to Work – new cultural experiences, meeting
people from a variation of organisation.
• Raising Aspirations Event – engaging local business into school
and providing role models.
• Skills Circus – family members learn new skills in a variety of
areas with their children, raising adult and children's
aspirations.
Sustainability
• Developed a Community Interest Company
Benefits include;
Apply for external funding opportunities
Further skills and development in business
enterprise
• Community Garden
• International exchange programme
IMPACT
• Improved reading ages and educational attainment
• Decrease in Anti Social Behaviour
• Increased engagement/participation in community
• Attitudes and Behaviour
• Aspiration levels
• Reduction in absence rate
• Increased take up of FE/HE opportunities
• Increased confidence and self esteem
• Role models and enhancement of transferable skills