The Guide Neighbourhood Programme

What is it?

The Guide Neighbourhood programme is a national programme offering advice and support to neighbourhoods preparing to improve their area. The Programme is funded by the Communities and Local Government department’s Community Empowerment Division as part of the Together We Can Action Plan. The aim of the programme is to make it easier for residents of areas undergoing regeneration and renewal to transform their neighbourhood for the benefit of all the community.

How does it work?

Guide Neighbourhoods are successful community organisations who have tackled issues such as crime, poor housing and unemployment in their community. There are 15 Guide neighbourhoods across the country, each different but all of whom share the experience of successfully transforming their neighbourhood. It is generally recognised that residents living and working in their neighbourhood 24 hours a day 7 days a week are the key to creating sustainable communities and quality public services.

Experienced residents who have first hand experience in transforming their neighbourhood act as ‘resident guides’ encouraging and inspiring residents from other areas so that they too can be the key to successful and sustainable regeneration and renewal.

Through arranging site visits, workshops, mentoring opportunities and a range of other learning opportunities the programme assists less experienced residents to learn first hand from other residents many of whom have experience of living in and transforming some of the worst neighbourhoods into some of the best – a truly ‘bottom up’ approach to delivering community-led regeneration.

The Seedley & Langworthy Trust is proud to have been invited to become a Guide Neighbourhood. We hope to offer an exciting and inspiring choice of learning experiences to visiting residents from other areas – both within Salford and beyond.