A List of Our Previous Projects
The Guide Neighbourhoods Programme
Cultivating Communities Conference
The Guide Neighbourhoods 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.
Current Guide Neighbourhoods
- Balsall Heath
- Burrowes Street Tenant Management Organisation
- Castle Vale Community Housing Association
- The Eldonians
- Goodwin Development Trust
- Include Centre for Neighbourhood Management
- Leicester North West Community Forum
- The National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations
- Neighbours4U
- Pembroke Street Estate Management Board
- Perry Common Regeneration Partnership
- Poplar HARCA
- Royds Community Association
- Seedley and Langworthy Trust
- Stubbin Neighbourhood Association
Please visit the Housing Justice’s website to get more information about the Guide Neighbourhoods.
Below is a list of some of the visits along with some photographs the Seedley and Langworthy Trust has hosted under the Guide Neighbourhood Programme;
The Central Residents Action Group - Ashton-under-Lyne
Include – Liverpool
Ashfield Cheviot Resident Association – Salford
Cultivating Communities Conference
The conference was organised by the Seedley and Langworthy Trust, in partnership with Salford City Council Neighbourhood Management Team and the Northwest Together We Can Network. The conference was also the Annual conference of NWTWC and supported by Manchester Metropolitan University and Guide Neighbourhoods Programme. It was a full day conference and took place at Buile Hill Park in Salford on 24th June 2008.The aim of the conference was to look at practical ways of how communities can use their immediate environment to increase community engagement and cohesion and to bring about sustainable change. The conference was themed around the clean and green agenda and offered an invaluable opportunity to showcase the best of community-led environmental initiatives and partnership projects in Salford.
The conference attracted a wide range of delegates from different parts of England with 140 delegates attending the conference, including local authorities and voluntary & community sector organisations. A host of inspirational workshops explored good practice in developing the Cleaner and Greener agenda in local communities whilst coach visits took delegates on tours of Salford to see how the city was changing and meeting the challenges of improving the physical environment and increasing community engagement / cohesion.
Key note speakers included Toby Blume Urban Forum, Hilary Wainwright journalist and Councillor John Merry Leader Salford City Council, who covered local, national and global perspectives on the issues of environmental justice, economic development and participatory democracy as a means to influence and broaden decision making.
The conference was important for the Seedley and Langworthy Trust because it was the first time the Trust organised a regional conference on this scale and brought a staggering 140 delegates from a wide range of organisations including the public, community & voluntary sector organisations to Salford, and promoted Salford as an emerging city, whilst showcasing the Salford’s regeneration initiatives and projects.
A report and evaluation of the Cultivating Communities Conference is now available. For further details contact The Seedley and Langworthy Trust on 0161-7379918.
