Related pages
- Enfuse report
- testimonials
Contact
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By Phone
01472 315437
By Email
enfuse@vanel.org.uk
Contact Jenny Hodson, Enfuse Team Manager for any other matters via jenny@vanel.org.uk
The project started in April 2013 and will run through until March 2016.
For some context, here is a description of what the project set out to achieve in its first year.
Voluntary Action North East Lincolnshire: BIG LOTTERY Reaching Communities Programme:
“Helping Young People to Help Communities Help Themselves”
The aim of our programme is to mobilise all communities across North East Lincolnshire to become stronger and more involved with local life, by developing more active and involved citizens, better able to work together to tackle their collective issues. This will be achieved by developing a coordinated team of young community based and community managed development workers to support, guide and work alongside a range of community members.
The programme will help local people in local communities address their own problems by enabling them to mobilise their own community peers to become more involved. Community residents are currently not involved as shown by low levels of volunteering, lack of actively involved communities, low voter turnout, low income and high dependency on public sector services and benefits.
Existing development workers for funding, rural and health, managed by VANEL, along with two Ward based workers have established a development workers network. Feedback via this network has demonstrated a need for communities to be managing their own community development rather than being dependent on others to provide it, hence helping communities to help themselves.
Sustainable changes in those communities with the worst problems, situations and barriers to overcome are seen to happen where self-sustainable communities are created. In its first year this programme will benefit from the knowledge and expertise gained via the development worker network to support community based apprentices, leaving a further 3 years to embed the young people in communities across North East Lincolnshire. As previous experience has shown it takes up to 2 years to set up and establish such programmes before impact can really begin to effect change.
People who will benefit from our programme include all North East Lincolnshire communities. However the highest impact will be in those communities highlighted as having the worst problems, situations and barriers to overcome. Specifically targeted will be communities that are:
- most deprived e.g. people on low incomes
- least mobile / disabled e.g. people with physical difficulties
- less educated / trained e.g. long-term unemployed people
- most isolated e.g. older people in rural communities
- most vulnerable e.g. people with mild mental health issues
- less integrated e.g. ex-offenders (at low risk of harm to communities)
- most excluded e.g. young people.
We want to ensure the programme harnesses and maximises the energy of the young people in order to change their attitudes towards volunteering in and engaging with their community, in order to see it as a life choice rather than just a fallback for NEETS (young people not in education, employment, education or training). In addition the groups that support the above communities will benefit via the support of the apprentices on this programme who will themselves benefit as both individuals and as members of the communities they live in. The Apprentices will also learn skills in community games; health improvement; digital technology; victim support; probation (youth & adult); coastal communities and tourism; recycling; minority communities; restorative practices.