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October 2015

ACHIEVEMENTS2015

We are a charity, helping to Rebalance theouter estates of Nottingham North with theskills, jobs, leisure and health opportunitiesneeded to develop balanced sustainablecommunities

Rebalancing the Outer Estates Foundation Annual Report 2015

What we do

Rebalancing the Outer Estates Foundation is a registered charity, wholly dependent on the energy andgood will of the people and partners that we work with. It facilitates, convenes and motivates anagenda for change focussing on building strong communities and improving access to jobs, healthinequalities, education, skills and training. We join up both people and organisations to work together-this is the unique added value of Rebalancing. We bring a strong focus to improving the NottinghamNorth locality and produce lessons across our city, our sub region and nationally by selecting a smallnumber of practical projects in jobs, health and the community. We hope to demonstrate that thingscan get done when we work together.

Real Achievements

Economic, Employment, Skills

The First Nottingham North Jobs Fair

The first annual ‘Nottingham North Jobs and Apprenticeship Fair’ held in March 2015 was attendedby nearly 1,000 people, 23 employers, 12 training/apprenticeship providers and 3 voluntary sectoragencies that deliver employability support services.

145 of attendees secured jobs and many others added totheir skills.

A proportionate decrease in the number of JSA claimants forApril and May in Nottingham North compared the rest of thecity, demonstrates the impact of this intervention (-6.9% (netfall of 222) versus -4.7%).

The Nottingham North Jobs and Apprenticeship Fairgenerated an estimated £430K- £570K in savings to the public pursethrough jobseekers coming off benefits, and added a further £1.8m added to the local economythrough these jobseekers now receiving salaried employment.

Reducing Barriers to Learning & Work

The Rebalancing Foundation has brought together key partners from D2N2 LEP, Nottingham CityCouncil, DWP, the Work Programme, the SFA, the Trouble Families Programme (known as ‘PriorityFamilies’ in Nottingham), New College Nottingham, and local community organisations and socialenterprises to develop Employment & Skills interventions specifically for Nottingham North, such asthe Jobs Fair. This has garnered a renewed focus on the Outer Estates of Nottingham North from keylocal and regional organisations.

Rebalancing worked with Nottingham City Council to ensure that part of the Youth EmploymentInitiative funding made available through European Structural & Investment Funds (ESIF) Programmewas focused on reducing Youth Unemployment in Nottingham North by raising awareness of the needwith Nottingham City Council and D2N2 LEP. This local intelligence was useful in the development ofthe Open Call document.

First Nottm North Jobs Fair 2014


Building the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Development Group

Another new partnership has been established by Rebalancing,bringing together the Federation of Small Businesses, the EastMidlands Chamber of Commerce, Invest in Nottingham, NottinghamMeans Business, Business in the Community, Nottingham BusinessVenture and local social enterprises such as BEST, Groundworks andRight Track to explore opportunities for promoting business supportservices such as marketing, accounting, tendering, strategic planning tolocal enterprises. The group is also helping to identify developmentopportunities for the local business community within the Rebalancingarea, such as the Sasie proposal to develop the old Nottingham CityGolf Club into an education centre for Sustainable Energy.

This partnership promoted the business support available to local business in a workshop organisedby Rebalancing at the new NBV Enterprise Centre in Basford. It has also added to the offer of localcommunity organisations to include enterprise and business start-up advice alongside employment,skills and other support to their clients within local neighbourhood.

Intervening early to help our NEETs

To help our young people classed as NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) we put forwarda proposal to have a Careers and Skills adviser in every one of our 6 secondary schools and for a 14-17 Pre-NEET college built into the new Basford Hall.

We convened our 6 secondary heads and OFSTED to meet and talk outside of an inspection about howbest schools can help and be recognised for helping young people whomay not get 5 A*-C’s at GCSE.

To do this we bid to the DWPs Youth Engagement Fund. Rebalancingcoordinated the creation of a partnership including the City Council,Nottingham Futures, the six secondary schools of Nottingham North,Tomorrow’s People, and social investors, Impetus-PEF and SocialFinance.

Disappointingly after all our efforts we did not win the bid. We are notgiving up, our partnership is now established to explore new funding

opportunities to deliver a Pre-NEETs programme in Nottingham North, which Rebalancing willcontinue to coordinate. Rebalancing Nottingham North has been included in the councils’Employability in Schools strategy published in September 2015 and continues to promote theimportance of employers supporting schools to develop the employability skills of their pupils.

FE development Basford Hall


Health

The evidence for public health interventions in Nottingham North is clear; to put it simply people inthis area die too soon, and live their lives with a degree of ill-health which is unacceptable.Rebalancing aims to shift some of these health inequalities through specific projects, which will targetthose most at risk and the most vulnerable in our population.

In the past 12 months we have started 3 projects:

1.Planning for a Health MOT for everyone

The objective is to get every 60 year old and over in frontof their GP, not least to identify lung disease in its earlystages enabling people to seek treatment earlier.

2.Getting free dental checks to every 3 year old

We have done the groundwork to raise awareness of the offer from the NHSfor a free dental check. We will also increase the number of under 3’saccessing dental check and fluoride varnish from 20% to 30% of theNottingham North U3 population by working directly with parents of youngchildren and linking into the City Council’s oral health improvement work.We have also successfully negotiated allocated visits from the “MobileSmiles” dental unit to the Rebalancing area, commissioned by NHS England.This unit has been visiting primary schools in Nottingham North 2 days perweek for the past 3 months and has seen just over 1000 children.

Rebalancing has attracted generous donations from local businesses.The Healthstore has donated 10,000 free children’s toothbrushes, and Boots have given 300 tubes oftoothpaste. We will use these gifts to enhance the offer made by the Oral Health promotion team,and to engage with parents and children.

3.Building a “Don’t drink when pregnant” campaign

Our message is clear: “Drinking alcohol while you are pregnant can cause harm to your baby”. We aredoing this by planning to raise awareness of the potential harms, working with young women to getthese messages heard and understood. Rebalancing intends to support pioneering work to establisha national study in Nottingham North to discover how widespread Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorderis in our community.

For each of these projects a steering group has been set up. It has given health professionals theopportunity to work creatively, build evidence and serve local communities.

There have been significant contributions from many partners which includes the time and experienceof senior and expert staff; including from Nottingham City Council, in particular the public health team,Nottingham University Hospitals, PHE, Universities, City Care, midwives, school nurses and GPs toname but a few.

Mobile Smiles dental bus 2015


Communities

We have developed a communication and engagementplan focussing on Rebalancing’s vision of improvinghealth and employment in the Nottingham North area.The plan has been informed by community insightgathered from our eight local focus groups held in therebalancing geography. This will also inform ourpartner’s future commissioning intentions.

A consortium of partners and frontline stakeholders, including Small Steps Big Changes, NottinghamCity Homes, Nottingham City Councils, lead organisations and local community groups andambassadors have been shaped to deliver rebalancing’s key messages to services to localcommunities. A couple of examples include 70 Small Step Big Changes Staff and Mentors working inBulwell and Aspley, promoting our agreed health messages. We have also brokered a relationship withNCN who have agreed for their students to deliver rebalancing’s health messages to local nurseries,parents, children centres, and hold local event as part of their curriculum.

We are building a network of local community ambassadors to champion messages andcommunication in local Communities. This work strand is in its early stages, however we have so farassembled a steering group of community leaders who will support the delivery of our key messagesthrough their local networks.

This year we have also supported the development of the Bulwell TownTeam and helped them develop their action plan and successfully secure£10,000 worth of funding from Mary Portis/Nottingham City Council.

Earlier in the year, rebalancing hosted an urban design event atCrabtree Community Centre. This was the catalyst for two regenerationprojects. Firstly, the Broxtowe Country Park Entrance, where a designcompetition was held to improve the look and function of the parkentrance and secondly the Eastglade eco housing project. Both projects

are currently under development.

With local partners, we are developing a Creative Eighth for Nottingham North. We have establishedthe concept and developed the steering group and an action plan to build and promote activity inNottingham North.

We are currently encouraging and promoting volunteering by facilitating local programmes. Forexample - Safe for Families (approx 75), Small Steps Big Changes, Roots of Empathy (Target 45) andNational Citizenship Programme.

We have also initiated our social media campaign with the launch of the “Rebalancing the Outerestates Foundation” website which can be found at www.rebalancingouterestates.com. Rebalancingnow also interacts via Facebook and Twitter – handle @rebalancenotts .


What can Rebalancing achieve over the next year?

It is my job to ensure that Rebalancing delivers on our promises, targets andpotential. If you have any queries or want to help, call me [email protected]. Kristian Roebuck, Rebalancing ProjectDirector

Economic, Employment, Skills

Expanding the idea of Nottingham North Jobs Fair (Part 2)Following the first successful Nottingham North Jobs Fair - the Rebalancing Foundation will work inpartnership with Nottingham City Council and Job Centre Plus and make this a regular annual event.Rebalancing will seek to improve the delivery of the Jobs Fair through a number of actions:

· Introduce a robust cost benefit analysis to demonstrate the financial benefits of gettingdifferent benefit claimants into work

· Look to increase the number of attendees year on year and have a greater and morediverse number of community-based referral routes for jobseekers attending the event

Lone parents employment support initiative

It is recognised that lone parents often face specific barriersto gaining employment such as child care, flexible hours,even meeting employers and understanding what support isavailable. To address these issues, Rebalancing plan toorganise six local community events across NottinghamNorth, where lone parents will be given opportunity to shareideas, meet local employers and training providers andimprove their options around employment.

Redesigned Pre-Neets Proposal

Producing an alternative proposal for our Pre-NEETs. We didn’t win our bid to the Youth EngagementFund so we are reworking it with our partners. Some students are not suited to academic learning andwill in many cases face numerous social issues associated with deprivation. This programme seeks tochallenge current practice by providing alternative provision for a group of 14-17 year old students,based on one to one support, employability, skills, and job oriented learning which is usually onlyaccessible post 16.

We are working on a new delivery and financial model to enable this programme to continue.Meanwhile we will continue to act as conduit between local schools and funders to redesign aprogramme specifically tailored to suit Nottingham North pupils aged 14-17 year.

Nottingham Jobs Pledge

We will be linking with Nottingham City Council to help promote the Nottingham Jobs Pledge,encouraging businesses and employers to sign up to the pledge.


Building a Nottingham North Employment, Skills & Enterprise Hub

Rebalancing is seeking to convene local partners to establish an Employment, Skills and EnterpriseHub in Bulwell town centre, where there is high footfall and to encourage ‘drop-ins’ by localNottingham North jobseekers.

This will be designed to provide a central focal point for community organisations and businesssupport agencies to directly engage with small businesses and unemployed local residents to helpthem grow their business, start-up a new enterprise, and access employment & skills provision to getinto work. It will involve:

· A multi-agency approach that combines the different projects, programmes and organisationsinto a single menu offer for potential clients

· Information on properties available, business grants, courses, events, and advice sessions toencourage enterprise in Nottingham North

· Guidance on support for people at various levels of work-readiness: from promoting localvacancies to helping people with personal confidence and appearance

If you have questions or contributions to make on jobs and skills in the Rebalancing area pleasecontact our Employment lead Alex Reader on [email protected]

HealthHealth MOTs for those over 60

The Rebalancing pilot starts in November in Bilborough. If, as we expect it is successful we will roll itout across Nottingham North and intend to have 1000 Health MOTs carried out by the end of 2016.

Dental checks for 3 year olds

The Rebalancing work starts immediately, we intend to get thenumbers of 3 year olds up from 20% of the Nottingham North U3population ) currently to 30% by the end of 2016 – an increase of 500children. Plans to achieve this target include better access to themobile dental unit. Involving dentists and public health in steeringgroups to shape future commissioning of child dentistry inNottingham North. Build an easier route to dental care for Under 3’sincluding specific dental session for 3 year olds with local dentists.

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

We also intend to have moved significantly towards the setting up of the National study on FoetalAlcohol Spectrum Disorder in Nottingham North.

If you want to know more about how to help on these projects contact our healthlead Jane Jobarteh on [email protected]


Communities

· Continue to support the development of Bulwell Town Team and help shape theirvision/neighbourhood plan

· Develop six focus groups in Nottingham North looking at Public Health and Employment andtraining to inform marketing

· Develop and deliver creative eighth action plan· Help 10 primary schools deliver “Roots of Empathy” -15 volunteer instructors and 15 sets of

parents with 15 babies – a total of 45 volunteers.· Help 20 families in Nottingham North with “Safe Families for Children” and support from 75 local

volunteers

If you want to join in our community building call our communitylead Lianne Taylor on [email protected]

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Background

Nottingham North – confronting our problems

Rebalancing helps to tackle some of our local problems. Nottingham North is a low incomearea with social and economic deprivation difficulties that need to be tackled.

· Unemployment: As of May 2015, 14,895 people in Nottingham North are claiming out ofwork benefits, over 24% of the working-age population, more than double both theregional and national average, and 50% more than the Nottingham City average. Fewerthan 60% of working age people are in work (12% below national average. 1 in 8 youngpeople are unemployed. Nottingham North is the 9th worst (of 650) constituency forunemployment.

· Skills: Nottingham North is one of only 20 constituencies to have more people with noqualifications (17.4%) at all than with a degree (17%). In addition, over 46% of the workingage population are not qualified to Level 2 (5 GCSE A-C or equivalent), which means onlylimited employment opportunities are accessible to them.

· Health: The health of people in Nottingham is generally worse than the England average.Life expectancy is 9.2 years lower for men and 8.7 years lower for women than theEngland average, many health problems are worse in the northern estates.

· Community: Our communities have been battered by the end of manufacturing. Four outof six secondary schools are in special measures. The area has the lowest number of youngpeople going to university in the UK and there are double the average of single parenthouseholds. They need to be helped to regenerate and strengthen.


Rebalancing’s Vision, Aims and Objectives

Our VisionOur vision is to drive forward new and innovative approaches not just to firefight but to break theintergenerational nature of outer estate deprivation, attacking causes and not just symptoms.The ‘Rebalancing Project’ is not about throwing money at problems but much more about findingout “What works”. We will work with central and local government to propose and trial flexibilities,discretions, innovations and freedoms in one place.

Our Aims and Objectives

The Object of the ‘Rebalancing the Outer Estates Foundation’ is: Over a generation to rebalance theouter estates of Nottingham North with the skills, jobs, leisure, health and other factors to developbalanced sustainable communities, turning around the lives of this socially and economicallydisadvantaged area by all or any of the following means:

The creation and brokering of a partnership of local andnational organisations and interests to focus on theRebalancing area and build stronger communityinfrastructure, revive the voluntary sector, and involvecharities, trusts and foundations, so communities andindividuals are better able to participate more fully in society.

The advancement of long term education, training, and skillsdevelopment to enable every person, especially youngpeople, to get a job.

The encouragement of inward investment that promotes sustainablemeans of achieving economic growth and the creation of training andemployment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings and /or land for use on favourable terms.

The diversification of the existing housing stock and its tenures to bringvariety, choice, affordability, and mobility to tenants resident in the area.

The improvement of local quality of life through an active social and publicagenda around culture and community safety including the preservationand use of buildings, the provision of recreational facilities and theprotection and conservation of the environment.

The provision of a specific package of appropriate and sustainable measures to reduce healthinequalities in the area, delivered through unique partnership approaches

Helping turn Hoewood derelict land intolocal green space

Private sector partnersMorrison’s, Carillion, Boots


Where we operate

Our team operate from the Riverside Centre, Bulwell(pictured below).

Our area stretches across Nottingham North including:

· Aspley· Basford· Bestwood· Bilborough· Bulwell· Bulwell Forest

Our website is:www.rebalancingouterestates.com

Our Twitter handle is:@rebalancenotts


Who we are

Rebalancing the Outer Estates Foundation was established in July 2014 by Nottingham NorthMP Graham Allen with help in kind from partners and seed funding from Government. In May2015 the organisation achieved charitable status and uses its resource and influence to focuson improving the area of Nottingham North and the lives of the people who live there.

ChairmanOur achievements do and will continue to depend upon the commitmentto our Charity from our Board and from our staff which, to date, havebeen seconded from our key partners, including Public Health England,Nottingham City Council, Carillion, Job Centre Plus, the InformationSharing Centre and we would like to thank them for their generosity andcontinued support to date

Board of Directors

Dawn WhitemorePrinciple NCN

Cllr Nick McDonaldNottm City Council

David RalphCEO D2N2

Nick MurphyCEO NCH

Graham AllenMP Nottm North

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