Upload
clinton-hopkins
View
215
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Community Action Planning
What is a Community Action Plan?
• An assessment undertaken by a community to reflect the needs and aspirations of local people – your assessment, your needs, your plan
• A developing and evolving process resulting in ACTION to benefit the community
Benefits of Community Action Planning
• Identifies what’s important to the community through a process led and controlled by the community
• Gets people engaged and involved. Identifies and recruits stakeholders and activists
• Supports existing / future community groups and projects
• Evidences what the community needs and where help may be needed from agencies
• To get people thinking positively – What’s good about living in your community? What do you value? What do you want to protect?
Community Action Planning - How is it done?• Set up a steering group
• List the issues and drivers for the process that you know already
• Identify key people you think would be able to contribute
• Agree a process – to involve as many people as possible
• Get wide input
• Feed back your findings
• Prioritise findings if necessary
• THEN implement the plan
– no point doing it otherwise
Community Action Plans - Scope
• Get people thinking broadly and creatively
• Use community planning themes to group responses:
o Community Wellbeing – includes health and wellbeing, housing, social services, community safety and community facilities
o Jobs and the Economy – includes business development, heritage, tourism and rural development
o Lifelong Learning – includes education, adult learning, and culture
o Sustainable Environment – includes environment, waste management, heritage, waste management, transportation and energy efficiency
o Developing our Partnerships – includes working between communities and statutory and other agencies, and working between agencies for communities.
Community Action Plans -
Things to remember
• Individual Community Action Plans reflect differences in community size, issues and
aspirations
• Can be time-consuming but with valuable outcomes
• Only worth doing if actions are then delivered
Community Action Plans – How MAP can help
• Time and energy to support and advise the group
• Some principles and a framework that you can adapt to your needs
• Experience of working with other communities
• Access to money for the expenses of the process and publication of the plan
• Potential access to small grants (<£1K) to help get projects started, and advice on sources of larger grants.