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- Communities and neighbourhoods
- Community empowerment
- Promote Community Empowerment
- Guide Neighbourhoods
Guide Neighbourhoods
The Guide Neighbourhoods programme received £4.35 million government funding to enable strong, successful resident-led neighbourhood organisations, to share their knowledge and experience with other neighbourhoods trying to tackle similar problems. Fourteen Guide Neighbourhoods were directly involved in the 27-month action research phase of the programme, which ran until March 2007; along with a number of other neighbourhood organisations through the National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations.
The evaluation report of the Guide Neighbourhoods Programme is due to be published on 17 October 2007. A summary of the report will be available to order soon, while the full report will be available via the communities website.
Experienced resident guides are central to the learning opportunities that the programme offers.
The Guide Neighbourhoods are:
- Balsall Heath Forum, Birmingham
- Castle Vale Community Housing Association, Birmingham
- Witton Lodge Community Association, Birmingham
- Royds Community Association, Bradford
- Goodwin Development Trust Ltd, Hull
- Hope in the community Limited, Kent
- Leicester North West Community Forum, Leicester
- Burrowes Include Centre for Neighbourhood Management, Liverpool
- Eldonian Initiative, Liverpool
- Poplar HARCA, Tower Hamlets, London
- Pembroke Street Estate Management Board, Plymouth
- Seedley & Langworthy Trust, Salford
- Stubbin Neighbourhood Association, Sheffield
- Street Tenant Management Organisation Limited, Walsall
In the second phase of the programme, up until March 2008, the network of Guide Neighbourhoods will disseminate the lessons learned from the action research phase and promote the resident to resident approach to transferring knowledge and experience.
The programme is co-ordinated by Housing Justice-Regenerate which is a project of the national charity Housing Justice.
For more information on the guide neighbourhoods contact Housing Justice-Regenerate on 020 7723 7273 ext 229 or visit www.housingjustice.org.uk/hjregenerate/index.htm (External link)
Further information can also be found at www.direct.gov.uk/togetherwecan (External link)
Related publications
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Learning to Change Neighbourhoods: Lessons from the Guide Neighbourhoods Programme - Evaluation Report
- Published: 17 October 2007
- Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
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Learning to Change Neighbourhoods: Lessons from the Guide Neighbourhoods Programme - Summary Evaluation Report
- Published: 17 October 2007
- Site: Communities and neighbourhoods
