£1Million Port Community Resilience Fund Community Conversation 19 th November 2016 9.30am – 2pm Lawrence Weston Social Club
Agenda 9.30 Networking 10.00 Welcome and introductions – Helen Holland, Cabinet Member for Place 10.15 Thriving High Streets – Sarah Morrison 10.25 Employment and Enterprise – Paul Gaunt 10.35 Community Facilitates and Social Impact – Keith Houghton 10.45 Group activity 11.00 Ways to allocate funding 11.25 Comfort Break 11.40 Workshops – Community Facilities , Employment and Enterprise, Thriving High Streets 12.40 Feedback from workshops 1. 00 Lunch and Networking, a chance for people with project ideas to network and explore options/form alliances
Helen Holland
Sarah Morrison Thriving High Streets
Thriving Highstreets Vacancy Rates Area or Centre Total Occupied Vacant Occupancy Rate Vacancy Rate Bristol 5,473 5,067 406 92.6 7.4 Avonmouth Village 14 13 1 92.9 7.1 Ridingleaze (Lawrence Weston) 19 19 0 100 0 Shirehampton 53 48 5 90.6 9.4 Shirehampton Road 17 17 0 100 0
Thriving Highstreets • Survey Results – CCTV: 93% agreed or strongly agreed while 7% disagreed or strongly disagreed – Pavement improvements: 93% agreed or strongly agreed – Benches/ Improved seating: 86% of businesses either agreed or strongly agreed – Litter Bins/ Recycling Facilities: 80% agreed or strongly agreed – New/Improved signage: 80% agreed or strongly agreed
Paul Gaunt Enterprise
ENTERPRISE ISSUES • One of lowest business start-up rates in the city • Lack of suitable premises for small businesses – both in the villages and the industrial area • Limited advice and support services available locally for business start up and growth – past and present • Business support from the SevernNet Working Project will finish end March 2017 – no further Big Lottery funding • Enterprise ‘culture’ and successful ventures can be found in each village, but need more visibility and promotion ? • For long-term well-being and ‘resilience’, communities need a healthy mix of enterprises – private and social ?
ENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITIES • to build on 30+ enquiries and support for start up / existing businesses provided by SevernNet Working project • new city-wide programmes for enterprise support for 2017-20 period which will target resource on ALW ward to develop new office or workshop space for start ups and • and/or existing small businesses – plus support - in: - new developments, eg. LW Community Hub - refurbished buildings, eg. on Avonmouth Road • to create ‘local supply chains’ - offer goods & services to: - medium / larger companies in Avonmouth industrial area - new housing and community developments in ALW
Not ready for work : I need some support to overcome my Sources of referral barriers and identify my assets DWP I will work with my Navigator and specialist agencies. The agency will help Housing Providers me overcome my barriers and work on my Health Providers assets to get me ready for work A referral is made to one Self Referral Service Providers of a team of Navigators Nearly ready for work : I am close to the work market, have my – Each linked to own asset map and a plan into work. I referring agencies across Bristol want to become more independent. VCS Organisations Support Agencies A Navigator will work with me to identify my skills, work through my barriers and improve my confidence and set achievable goals. I will work with a specialist service provider Initial Assessment Assets – What I’m good at Ready for work : Barriers – What’s stopping me I am ready for work and I have an asset Commitment – What’s needed to get and keep map, skills and a reference. I will work a job with my Navigator to improve my Development – What more I need to get and experience, get specific qualifications or keep a job clearance, (DBS, CSCS etc.) and help with job searching, CV’s and application forms - Navigator and participant produce a personal pathway plan to get individual into work In work : I have got myself a job and I may need some support to help me stay there. My Navigator will remain in contact with me and work with specialist agencies, providers, and if required, my employer, to ensure that I am able to remain in my role.
Out of work benefits 300 250 200 150 100 50 0
Keith Houghton Community Facilities and Social Impact
Community buildings and facilities • The NP Plan wants to support: Communities with sustainable, thriving facilities which meet the needs of all community members
through the following actions: • Support the development of quality Library services which enhance community facilities in Avonmouth, Shirehampton Public Hall and Sea Mills • Support resident groups to enable them to improve local facilities • work with BCC to develop a community-focused process for using the £1million Port sale fund proposed by Mayor
Resilience • People in a community have the capacity to survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter • This investment should enhance the capacity of Community Facilities to do that to deliver good social impacts – particularly for the poor and vulnerable • What sort of capacities might that be for community facilities in Avonmouth, Lawrence Weston, Sea Mills/Coombe Dingle and Shirehampton?
A Project should? • Contributes to communities’ health in widest sense • Builds people’s confidence, skills, capacity to earn a decent living • Is strongly supported by people in the local community • Gets more people participating and active in their community and increases the sense of belonging and having a stake in their community
• Increases its ability to generate income, reduces reliance on any one source of income/grant/support, such as the Public sector • Becomes more energy efficient, cheaper to run and reduces negative impact on environment • Makes effective partnerships with other groups/organisations to achieve its aims • It’s well-run and is planning realistically for its future
What sort of organisation might able to apply? • Local community groups • Local Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies • Public sector organisations PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE INCREASING THE IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY OF A LOCAL COMMUNITY ORGANISATION/FACILITY
Who can’t? • For private profit organisations • Activities promoting religion or political beliefs
Our Workshop will: • Look at what sort of resilience and social impact the fund will deliver • Recommend what sort of addition ‘match’ value the fund will ask for • Recommend what methods the fund uses to decide which projects succeed in getting funding
Different ways to administrating funding – Hayley Ash
Grants- open bidding similar to the Well Being Process Pros Cons • Strong paper trail • Does not give much development • Completing the application time and could be seen as a lot of helps applicant to think work for something that is not about how their project guaranteed. needs to work • Only a few people are involved in the • Clear criteria and process decision making process • Clear scoring process • Construction projects will need a very detailed application form
Grants - Open Bidding - Similar to the Bristol Impact Small Grants Fund Detail This was a 3 stage process 1. General eligibility and plausibility 2. 15 minute conversation to further explore 3. Application form
Grants - Open Bidding - Similar to the Bristol Impact Small Grants Fund Pros Cons • Applicants only have to complete a Only a few people are involved in the short application at stage 1. decision making process – • Strong paper trail • Completing the application helps Construction projects will need a applicant to think about how their detailed application form at stage 3 project needs to work • Clear criteria and process Can be resource heavy to manage • Clear scoring process • Applicants know early on if they will be considered
Grants –Participatory budgeting 1. Detail • A short application form asking about eligibility, plausibility, a brief outline, and costs – this will be assessed by a small group • Eligible applicants invited to an event where each proposed project have a stall, and 5 minutes to talk to the audience about their project • Everyone at the event gets to vote. • The top projects (up to or slightly over the amount available) would be asked to proceed to the next stage • The next stage would enable each project to have a small sum of money to work up their project (this would be used towards profession fees linked to the build project e.g architects etc.) • 3 months to fully plan project, raise match funding and develop a full business plan. • Scored assessment process by an assessment board
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