Community Empowerment Programme Library

*All information in the Library can be produced in Braille, Big Print or Tape if required *

 Children and Young People Documents

  • Every Child Matters: next steps
  • CYPF – task group contact list
  • CYPF – a glossary of words and phrases used by health, education, social work and youth justice agencies in Wigan
  • Supporting the health of young people in Wigan Borough
  • A Guide for Parents with Disabilities – pushchairs, baby carriers, high chairs, safety gates, bottles, warmers and sterilisers
  • Disclosures – frequently asked questions
  • Positive Futures and Connexions – various team leaflets / general information / newsletter
  • Smart Start – helping young people get the best start in their new home (County Palatine)
  • Sure Start leaflets
  • Young people’s participation strategy October 2003
  • Record of meeting – Youth Participation Strategy launch
  • Sure Start magazine
  • National Youth Crime Prevention Initiative – delegate pack
  • Wigan and Leigh Young Carers information pack
  • Together: The essential magazine for lone parents from One Parent Families
  • LEAP – What happened to 40 Bold Street ?
  • A National Voice: making a positive change for children & young people who are in or have left care (leaflet)
  • Zip it video box – a record of consultation with young people
  • The National Youth Agency – various leaflets
  • Parent Partnership newsletter
  • Wigan Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership newsletter
  • A Second Chance: Developing mentoring and education projects for young people
  • Family Literacy – changing the story
  • Greater Manchester Youth Network newsletter
  • Wigan Toy library leaflet
  • CYPF - Index of Multiple Needs - Report to Strategic P'ship

Community Development

  • Ideas on a Postcard – North West Community Development Network event June 2004
  • Community Social Work leaflet
  • Urban Research Summary: Searching for solid foundations – community involvement and urban policy (2003)
  • Federation news – community development learning (magazine)
  • CDX News (newsletter on community development)
  • Standing Conference for Community Development annual review 2002-2003
  • ABCD Handbook – A framework for evaluating community development
  • Community Development Foundation – Working with communities; Policy, Best Practice, Community Initiatives
  • Survey of Community Development Workers in the UK – Summary Report
  • Involving lay publics in developing policy and services: lessons from Salford Action Research Project (draft only)
  • Standing Conference for Community Development – Strategic Framework for Community Development
  • Building the future together in the Borough of Wigan – Community development strategy; a partnership approach
  • Community Matters membership form
  • Federation of Community Work Training Groups – Review 2000
  • Federation of Community Work Training Groups – Making Changes a strategic framework for community development learning in England
  • Federation of Community Work Training Groups – Sharing community development training ideas; learning from practice
  • Community Matters information
  • Cheshire County Council – Community Enterprise Toolkit A guide to setting up and running a community enterprise
  • The Journal of Community Work and Development Issue 3, 2002
  • Urban Forum jargon buster 2002
  • Celebrating Community Involvement – Deborah Peel and Nick Bailey
  • SCCD – ‘Achieving Better Community Development’ an introduction
  • Participatory Appraisal in Hull and East Riding (NACVS Feb 01)
  • Prove It! A briefing from the Centre for Participation; measuring what happens
  • Bassac leaflet – supporting people sustaining communities
  • Building Community Cohesion into Area Based Initiatives

Community Empowerment Fund

  • Neighbourhood Renewal Community Empowerment Fund guidance summary (January 2002)
  • Review of community participation – PowerPoint presentation slides
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit – Single Community Programme Guidance (November 2003)
  • Community Empowerment Fund – Preliminary guidance for Government Offices in the regions and community and voluntary sector organisations
  • Record of meeting – Local Strategic Partnership Network Event 2/10/03
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit – Community Empowerment Fund preliminary guidance (July 2001)
  • Power to the people! (Extract from NACVS July 2001, looks at CVS’s role in Community Empowerment)
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Community Empowerment Fund guidance summary
  • Government Office North West – documentation around Performance Management
  • Electoral reform services - leaflet

Community Empowerment – Elsewhere

  • Tameside Third Sector Coalition
  • Burnley Community Network – Making the Pieces Fit
  • Kirklees Voluntary Action Network leaflet
  • Rotherham LSP / CDIP draft agreement for representatives
  • Salford Community Network – Animator magazines
  • St Helens Network – Be part of the solution (newsletter), mapping exercise report, planning day information pack, leaflet, representatives training write up
  • Oldham Community Empowerment Team – Meeting write up, introduction letter, Strategy for Oldham , Oldham Voice (newsletter), LSP structure, information sheet, training strategy, BEAMS – the Black & Minority Ethnic Network
  • Community Network 4 Manchester – Annual Forum 2002 report and programme, LSP Views (newsletter), A rough guide to CN4M, Meeting write up, Communications infrastructure report, report to Annual Forum 2003,
  • VOX Wakefield CEP – various bits of info, magazine
  • B:CEN Birmingham CEN – development plan 2001/02
  • Network News: Journal of the emerging Wirral voluntary and community sectors network
  • West Cornwall Community Network – leaflet
  • Padlock Community Matters – newsletter
  • Hull Developing Our Communities – information sheet
  • Urban Forum annual reports and briefings
  • Making it Work - Community Dev in Practice
  • GMCVO and Sub-Regional Thematic Networks
  • Community Pride Initiative
  • Parenting Education & Support Forum

Community Empowerment Wigan & Leigh

  • Community Involvement Strategy – draft by Wigan & Leigh CVS, August 2001
  • Wigan & Leigh CVS –CEP early presentation pack
  • Community Empowerment Programme Mini Conferences Spring 2002 – presentation
  • Copies of all newsletters produced
  • Planning day – not sure where from

Community Plans General

  • A Vision for Sefton – The Community Strategy 2002-2007
  • 2020 – A 20 year vision for Bradford April 2000
  • Preparing Community Strategies – draft guidance to Local Authorities
  • Preparing Community Strategies – draft guidance to Local Authorities June 2000
  • Local Government Association – preparing community strategies issues and advice, June 2000
  • Summary points from Local Government Association
  • Oldham Together, Community Strategy Framework June 2002 (first draft), Community Strategy 2002-2003
  • NCVO – Preparing Community Strategies June 2000
  • The Community Planning handbook – Nick Wates
  • Audit Commission – Quality of Life; using quality of life indicators
  • Hollingdean Mapping the Future
  • UK Villages.co.uk - leaflet

Community Plans – Wigan & Leigh

  • Community Plan 2005-2008; workshop report Nov 2004
  • Community Development in Golborne, January 2003
  • Hag Fold – A Community Plan
  • Wigan Borough 2001 – Community Plan (mini leaflet, booklet, fold out flyer, in depth booklet)
  • Hag Fold Community Charter 2003
  • Firs Renewal area – draft Local Community Plan
  • Standish Community Plan Summer 2001
  • Wigan Council Partnership Development and the Community Plan
  • Community Plan – A partnership’s progress report October 2000
  • Community Planning – presentation by Simon Dale
  • Mapping the Millennium
  • Community Networks – Community Mapping
  • Community Mapping and Networking – Review of pilot phase (Spring to Autumn 1999)
  • Community Mapping – review of pilot phase

Community Safety Documents

  • Anti Social Behaviour Problem Profile
  • Wigan Council draft licensing policy statement 2005-2008
  • Wigan Public Reassurance Programme (May 2004) – Investigating the role of communication in reducing fear of crime and raising public reassurance in vulnerable communities
  • Wigan Domestic Violence Executive – an interagency response to domestic violence (Dec 03)
  • Community Safety Strategy 2002-2005 – As safe as we all make it
  • Crime and Disorder Audit 2001
  • Community Safety Consultation Report
  • Domestic Violence Executive – Domestic Violence in Wigan an Inter Agency Response (draft 2002)
  • Greater Manchester Police Authority 2001 survey of residents – Report for the Wigan Division
  • Partnership newsletter
  • Programme of meetings May 2004-April 2005 and details of structure
  • Neighbourhood Action Against Crime (conference report, January 2003)

Community Safety minutes

  • Latest partnership minutes

Community Safety Regional / National Documents

  • Home Office Passport to Crime Reduction
  • Neighbourhood Renewal – Crime leaflet
  • Crime Concern conference information
  • Crime Concern Perspectives on Prevention – issues, approaches and practices for tackling local crime problems
  • Crime Concern’s Neighbourhood Safety Development Unit leaflet
  • Tackling Vehicle Crime – a practical guide for local community safety partnerships
  • Stonebridge Community Safety Strategy
  • Crime Concern – Drugs and Community Safety
  • Crime Concern – Keeping Section 17 on the agenda
  • Crime Concern – Tackling Domestic Violence
  • Crime Concern – Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour
  • Crime Concern – Keeping Young People Safe and Out of Trouble
  • Crime Concern – Working with health services to reduce crime and disorder
  • Crime Concern – Young people in rural Britain : partners in crime prevention
  • Crime Concern – Reducing neighbourhood crime
  • Crime Concern – Setting and using targets
  • Crime Concern – Funding community safety
  • Safe as Houses – A community safety guide for registered social landlords
  • Greater Manchester Police Authority Annual Report 2000-2001
  • Greater Manchester Police Racist Incident Report 2000-2001
  • Tackling Drugs as part of neighbourhood renewal
  • Neighbourhood Warden newsletter
  • Quest conference – Tackling Anti-social tenants
  • Hate Crime The Facts

Compact

  • A Compact for Tameside
  • Our Compact – a commitment to working together through Brent’s voluntary, community, public and private sectors
  • Compact note – a short summary of what document is about
  • Local Government Association – Compacts, Strategies, Partnerships; Exploring relationships between local authorities, the voluntary and community sector
  • Towards a Common Cause ‘A Compact for Care’
  • Local Compact Guidelines – getting local relationships right together
  • Compact – report of the 2 nd Annual meeting
  • Compact – funding: a code of good practice
  • Compact – code of good practice on community groups
  • A Compact for Manchester – info sheet

Consultation

  • Consultation database – user guide
  • Council, Social Services - Public consultation strategy 2001-02 – Giving People a Voice, Acting on the Outcome
  • ARVAC Community Research – Getting started: A resource pack for community groups (to right of magazine file)
  • Young people’s participation strategy October 2003
  • Zip it video box – a record of consultation with young people
  • Regeneration & Renewal – The guide to using consultants in regeneration 2003
  • Consultation Toolkit – Wigan Council (to the right of magazine file)
  • A-Z of Consultants in Regeneration 2004-2005

Culture Documents

  • Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust Annual Review and Report 2003/04
  • Culture at the heart of regeneration
  • Multi Sports Club – research report and action plan 2003-04
  • Artreach – Wigan Pier Theatre Company feasibility study 03
  • Federation of Stadium Communities – information pack
  • North West Arts Board Information Digest (newsletter)
  • A New Arts Strategy for Wigan 2001-06
  • Northern Soul – A Cultural Strategy for Wigan & Leigh CVS
  • Arts Exchange News
  • Hag Fold Arts At Home Day – event write up (Feb 04)
  • Information about ‘Promotion & advertisement of local arts / cultural events’

Culture minutes

  • Latest partnership minutes

Disability / mental health

  • Lowton, Golborne & Ashton Mencap Society (leaflet)
  • Foyers – moving out; project information
  • Disabled Living – Annual Report and Review 2001 to 2002
  • CDR Update – newsletter
  • MS Wigan Branch newsletter
  • Disability Rights Commission – Making access to goods and services easier for disabled customers – a practical guide for small businesses and other small service providers
  • Disability Rights Commission – 2004 what it means to you: a guide for service providers
  • The Wigan & Leigh Disability Forum leaflet
  • Wigan and Leigh Scope leaflet
  • Social Service and Wigan & Leigh Housing – statement on access to services and facilities
  • Multiple Sclerosis Regional Therapy and Support Group Ltd leaflet
  • Special Abilities Ltd –information / consultation / training for parents and or carers of a special needs’ person – general leaflet

Economic Development Documents

  • Wigan Community Legal Service – draft strategic plan 2003-2006
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Employment leaflet
  • Unify Credit Union leaflet
  • The Coalfields Regeneration Trust – regenews
  • Wigan Borough Business News
  • It’s Time for Me! – A Guide for Carers Thinking About Returning to Work
  • Rural agenda for community led enterprise
  • Development Trusts Association – information pack
  • Social Enterprise newsletter
  • Can Community Enterprise deliver Neighbourhood Renewal? (conference report, March 2003)
  • Wigan Borough Information, Advice and Guidance Partnership leaflet and newsletter
  • Community Enterprise Toolkit Training leaflet
  • NW Stakeholder Forum

Economic Development minutes

  • Latest minutes of the partnership

Education and Lifelong Learning Documents

  • Stepping Stones – building learning networks and consortium in the voluntary and community sector
  • Learning & Skills Council Strategic Framework 2002/05 and summary
  • Skills for Social Inclusion and the Knowledge Economy
  • Coalfield Challenge Education Strategy – summary of project based evaluations
  • Wigan Council Education Department – Strategy for Inclusive Education (May 2002)
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation – How schools can contribute to area regeneration
  • Community Development Foundation – Outside chances, the community contribution to the alternative curriculum
  • Discussion paper – A Learning and Development Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal
  • Scoping paper – A knowledge management system for neighbourhood renewal
  • Local learning and development strategy: Skills and Knowledge Programme
  • Sefton Local Learning and Development Plan
  • Mutual advantage: Working with voluntary and community organisations on learning and skills
  • Wigan LEA – Strategy for inclusive education consultation report October 2002
  • Education Strategy Annual Report 2001-2002
  • Local Action Learning Plan
  • Success for All: Reforming Further Education and Training (November 2002)
  • A focus on early years education in Wigan
  • The Learning Curve – Developing skills and knowledge for Neighbourhood Renewal (main report, summary, and PowerPoint presentation, October 2002)
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit – Skills and Knowledge for Neighbourhood Renewal fact sheet (October 2002)
  • Skills + Knowledge = Power – Sharing skills and knowledge to deliver better neighbourhoods
  • Summary from internet on Learning Curve
  • Don’t get by get on – details of campaign from Department of Education and Skills

Education and Lifelong Learning minutes

  • Latest partnership minutes

Education / Training – general information

  • Capita course directory 2005
  • Take Part – participatory appraisal in Barrow 2002-2003
  • Take Part - participatory appraisal in Barrow – food in Hindpool
  • Directory of Social Change – training for the voluntary sector 2004
  • Rod Laird Organisation – 2004-2005 training
  • MiDAS – Minibus Drivers handbook and supplement
  • Greater Manchester Open College Network – information for learners
  • Higher Folds Learn Direct leaflet
  • Upcoming training
  • Regen School – information
  • Unlocking community learning – write up of event and general information
  • Adult learning yearbook 2002-2003
  • Discover (newsletter)
  • Open University Business School – Certificate in Management, Winning Resources and Support, Course information 2003-2004, Health and Social Care 2004/05, Employment Law and Practice, Professional Diploma in Management
  • Local Communities Network (newsletter)
  • Update: Skills for Life (newsletter)
  • Learn Direct booklet
  • ASDAN newsletter and info on ‘Community Volunteering’ course
  • Wigan & Leigh College – prospectus 2003, adult guidance leaflet
  • Quest information
  • Wigan Borough Information, Advice and Guidance Partnership leaflet and newsletter
  • Young Movers - Inspiring Community Contribution with Young People
  • Training in Religion and Belief
  • Relate Programme of Courses
  • Trafford Hall - Training Courses for Tenants & Volunteers

Environment and Development Documents

  • Planning Aid North – engaging communities in planning
  • Red Rose Forest : A Place for Life
  • Agenda 21 – full document
  • Wigan Unitary Development Plan – first draft January 2003
  • Groundword – newsletter for Groundwork Wigan & Chorley
  • Source magazine
  • Agenda 21 – Executive Summary
  • Community Development Foundation – A better place to live, a guide for community groups to local action on sustainable development
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Environment – leaflet
  • GMCVO – Transport bulletin
  • The Waterways Renaissance Awards 2002
  • Growing Places newsletter
  • Changing Where We Live by Chris Church with Charlie Grant (CDF book)

Environment and Development minutes

  • Latest partnership minutes

Faith – General

  • Northwest Regional Forum of Faiths – launch ( 3 rd Feb 2005 )
  • Operation Eden newsletter and leaflets
  • The Interfaith Network for the UK 2003-2004 Annual Review
  • Interfaith Organisations in the UK – A Directory
  • UK Express – a Buddhist magazine
  • Interfaith Network leaflet
  • Peace One Day 21/9
  • The Inter Faith Network for the UK – 2001-2002 Annual Review
  • The Inter Faith Network for the UK – 2002-2003 Annual Review
  • Faith Bridge Builder – information leaflet for worker in Liverpool
  • Inter Faith Update – newsletter
  • The Churches’ Community Work Alliance - newsletter
  • Religions in the UK 2001-2003
  • Diocese of Liverpool Directory 2001-2003
  • Wigan Family Welfare leaflet
  • Launch of NW Regional Forum of Faiths - 3.2.05 

Faith – Surveys, Good Practice

  • The Faith in Partnership Series – an information resource for people of faith as they engage with their local communities
  • Connect – different faiths shared values – information booklet aimed at young people
  • Participation and Partnership: A Challenge for Faith Communities
  • Building Bridges info (based in Nelson)
  • The Interfaith Council info (Borough of Blackburn with Darwen)
  • Faith communities and Local Strategic Partnerships – presentation by Martin Miller
  • Diocese of Liverpool – Homelessness and the Diocese
  • Faith Works leaflet
  • Faith Works Charter
  • Partnership for the Common Good: interfaith structures and local government, good practice guidelines
  • Faith in partnership – faith communities and public life in the North West (conference report 2002, Blackburn )
  • Active Community Unit and the Inter Faith Network for the UK
  • The local inter faith guide
  • The Project Worker – a guide to employing staff in church based projects
  • Faith in England ’s Northwest – the contribution made by faith communities to civil society in the region, November 2003
  • Flourishing Communities – engaging church communities with government in New Deal for Communities
  • Faith and community – a good practice guide for local authorities
  • Local Interfaith Activity in the UK : A survey
  • Faiths, Hope and Participation – celebrating faith groups’ role in neighbourhood renewal
  • Building Good Relations with people of different faiths and beliefs
  • Faith, voluntary action and social policy: a review of research – The Journal of the Institute for Volunteering Research

Health and Social Care Documents

  • Sport, Health & Physical Education stakeholder day Sept 04
  • Coronary Heart Disease – equity audit for Wigan Borough
  • North West on the Move: The North West Plan for Sport and Physical Activity 2004-08
  • At least five a week – evidence on the impact of physical activity and its relationship to health
  • Wigan Borough Carers’ Strategy 2004-09
  • Mapping Poverty in Wigan : A preliminary report
  • Commission for Patient and Public Involvement: be a voice for health
  • A report of the Joint Review of Social Services in Wigan MBC (February 2004)
  • NHS Consultation Document – specialist services
  • The Wigan Borough Health Survey 2001
  • Patient Advice and Liaison Service – leaflet
  • Drugs and neighbourhood renewal
  • The Wigan Borough Health Survey 2001: Results from the health survey commissioned by the Wigan and Bolton Health Authority
  • A Physical Activity Strategy for the Borough of Wigan
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Health
  • Do You Want to Have Your Say in Your Health Service? (leaflet)
  • Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Primary Care Trust Health First newspaper
  • Your NHS: Advice, Support and Having Your Say (leaflet)
  • Active Living Team – various bits of information
  • Wigan Social Services Department Joint Review November 2002
  • Primary Care Trust Development – Wigan : A Consultation Document 2001
  • Supporting People Policy into Practice
  • Wigan Council: Supporting people action plan
  • Some of the Common Drug Related Questions in the Community – leaflet
  • How to tackle the damage drugs cause in the community – leaflet
  • A guide to Social Services in Wigan
  • Wigan Anti-Poverty Strategy
  • National Association of Hospital & Community Friends info pack
  • NHS Foundation Trust Status leaflet
  • Evaluation of the Sunflower Project
  • Willow information pack
  • Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT – Local Delivery Plan 2005 – 2008 : Draft 7

Health and Social Care minutes

  • Latest minutes of the partnership

Housing Documents

  • North West Regional Housing Strategy 2003
  • 2003 Housing Needs Survey
  • Arms length management for Wigan ’s council housing 2002/03 to 2005/06
  • Wigan Council – who gets a council house? Promoting choice
  • Housing Strategy Statement 2000
  • Taking Control in Your Community – a guide for housing association tenants
  • Housing Partnership newsletter
  • Regeneration in Hulme – an overview
  • User involvement / resident participation / tenant participation
  • Tenant Participation Advisory Service – Annual Report 2001
  • Community Led Estate Regeneration handbook
  • Limehurst Village Trust – information booklet (Hollinwood, Oldham )
  • ‘ A Place for me’ – A homelessness strategy for Wigan 2003-2007
  • Wigan & Leigh Housing – Best Value Reviews summary August 2002
  • Wigan Council Neighbourhood Renewal – Housing leaflet
  • Wigan Council – Tenant Participation Strategy 2000-2001
  • Richmond Fellowship – leaflet
  • The Centre for Sheltered Housing Studies – leaflet
  • Taking Control in your community – discussion paper
  • Housing Corporation – Involvement policy for the housing association sector
  • Housing Matters, Autumn 2003 – latest news for Wigan & Leigh Housing tenants and leaseholders
  • Wigan & Leigh Housing – Partnership Agreement

Housing minutes

  • Latest partnership minutes

Local Government

  • Report of the voluntary and community sector conference on Manchester ’s proposal for a Local Strategic Partnership, December 2001
  • Greater Manchester Voices – Local Strategic Partnerships
  • Improving local services: local public service agreements
  • LGA advice note for working with the community and voluntary sectors
  • Leading lights – lessons learned by the beacon councils
  • An essential guide to the Northwest Development Agency
  • A Greater Manchester strategy – a consultation draft prepared by the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities
  • Beacon council learning activities 2002/03
  • Councils learning from councils - good, better, best: a guide for delivering innovation and success in front line services
  • LGA Power pack – using the power to promote well-being
  • DETR – Power to promote or Improve Economic, Social or Environmental Well-being – draft guidance to local authorities (December 2000)
  • LGA – local voices; the neighbourhood dimension to governance, report of the LGA’s Urban Commission hearings into neighbourhoods
  • NACVS – Another year, another local government White Paper
  • NACVS – We’ve got the power
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Modernising local government
  • Government Office North West Annual Review 2001-2002
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Community governance, community leadership and the new local government
  • The State of the Borough Wigan
  • Census 2001 : Wigan

Local Strategic Partnerships

  • The Local Strategic Partnership Delivery Toolkit
  • The role of Local Strategic Partnerships in Neighbourhood Renewal
  • Local Strategic Partnerships – government guidance summary
  • Responses to government consultation on LSP’s
  • Urban Forum – The LSP Guide
  • Accreditation guidance for Local Strategic Partnerships
  • Local Strategic Partnerships – a short briefing note
  • NCVO – Briefing on Local Strategic Partnerships and the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund November 2000
  • Evaluation of local strategic partnerships – report of a survey of all English LSPs Feb 03
  • Urban Forum – What are Local Strategic Partnerships?
  • Local Strategic Partnerships – government guidance
  • Local Strategic Partnerships ODPM newsletter
  • ‘A little local difficulty’ Regeneration & Renewal August 2003
  • Good partnership – adding value, a framework for evaluating LSPs
  • St Helens Local Strategic Partnership and Annual Report 2001/02

LSP – Community Participation

  • Active Partners Unit – effective regeneration through community participation
  • Research Report 13: Evaluation of the community facilitation programme (Nov 04)
  • Research Summary 13: Evaluation of the community facilitation programme (Nov 04)
  • Quest – Community Participation in Neighbourhood Renewal
  • Review of Community Participation
  • The future of the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit’s Community Participation programmes
  • Urban Forum – community involvement in local strategic partnerships
  • Quest – Community involvement in LSPs
  • A resource pack for Local Strategic Partnerships – Quest
  • Urban Forum conference reports
  • Partnerships in Focus consultation report, Wigan & Leigh CVS December 2002
  • Quest – consultation on Community Participation Review
  • Quest – Information Pack ‘Community Involvement  

LSP – Wigan Borough Partnership

  • A guide to Wigan Borough Partnership – protocol (draft for consultation – June 2004)
  • Annual Report 2003/04
  • Feedback on recent surveys to Wigan LSP
  • The Leader’s Forum – The Local Strategic Partnership for the Borough of Wigan
  • Partnership Convention 6 th February 2004
  • Accreditation submission January 2003
  • Helping to clear a path through the trees – a guide to some of the new structures set up locally produced by Katy Crowson
  • Partnership’s key issues (July 2003)
  • Wigan Council – report of Partnership Convention, Feb 2001
  • Partnership Convention 2003

Neighbourhood Renewal

  • The guide to careers in regeneration 2004/2005
  • Neighbourhood Renewal: case examples in getting communities involved
  • Networking in your region; learning to improve neighbourhoods together
  • Aiming High – The power of floor targets to create better neighbourhoods
  • Building Civil Renewal – government support for community capacity building and proposals for change
  • National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal: Policy Action Team Audit
  • Places, people, prospects – Annual review 2001/02
  • A new commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal – National Strategy Action Plan
  • National strategy for neighbourhood renewal – report of policy action team 16: Learning lessons
  • Changing neighbourhoods, changing lives – the vision for neighbourhood renewal
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit – general info leaflet
  • A briefing paper and initial questions for community and voluntary sector groups
  • National strategy for neighbourhood renewal – table of key ideas
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit – glossary of terms
  • Prove it! Measuring the effect of neighbourhood renewal on local people
  • What is neighbourhood renewal? – fact sheet
  • The national strategy for neighbourhood renewal – fact sheet
  • Renewal.net info leaflet
  • Neighbourhood renewal leaflets on context, health, partnership, planning, housing, crime, community, education, performance, environment, employment, culture
  • Neighbourhood management – fact sheet
  • Bending the spend – harnessing the power of public spending to build better neighbourhoods
  • Leading lights – lessons learned by beacon councils
  • Local Government Association briefing – a new commitment to neighbourhood renewal
  • Smarter Delivery, Better Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhood Renewal in Wigan

  • Neighbourhood Renewal Fund Allocations 2001
  • Neighbourhood renewal in Wigan
  • Neighbourhood renewal fund – processes and management
  • Neighbourhood renewal fund in Wigan – programme action plan
  • Information and application pack – neighbourhood renewal fund April 2001-March 2004
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy for Wigan
  • Wigan Council – slides from neighbourhood renewal information day Oct 02
  • Wigan Council – neighbourhood renewal fund and local strategic partnerships
  • Neighbourhood Renewal in Wigan March/April 2003

Older People

  • North West Regional Task Force for Older People – Genuine Partners of Token Reps? Report of a meeting for older people who sit on Local Implementation Teams, May 2002
  • Age Concern in Wigan Borough – Keeping in Touch (newsletter)
  • Forum Talk – Your Over 50s Forum newsletter (Wigan & Leigh)
  • Over 50s Forum leaflets
  • SSI Inspection of Social Care Services for Older People, Wigan Borough Council, Sept 01
  • Help the Aged newsletter
  • Age Concern Wigan leaflet
  • Better Government for Older People Forum (February 2002)
  • The Information Book – by Pensioners Link
  • Are you over 50? – a practical guide to advice, support and services across government
  • Retired & Living in Wigan , Leigh & St Helens – the local magazine for the over 50s
  • Life begins at 50 – a better society for older people

Operations Group

  • Latest minutes

Race Equality

  • Refugee Action – refugee awareness training
  • NACVS – Good practice in action, CVS working with BME groups
  • Wigan Councils Race Equality Scheme – summary leaflet
  • Neighbourhood renewal unit - Race equality action plan
  • Neighbourhood renewal fund – Race equality action plan October 2002
  • Report to ‘Investigate the impact of asylum seekers on the community’
  • BEAMS – the Black & Minority Ethnic Network, Oldham
  • CAB Refugee Awareness and Referral Guide
  • Service Provision for ethnic minorities in the Wigan Borough
  • Asylum Seekers Providers Forum notes
  • Wigan Council – A-Z Directory of Service
  • Asylum Seekers Providers Forum A-Z Directory of Services
  • Asyluym Questions and Answers
  • Ethnicity Monitoring: Benefit
  • You Are Being Lied To About Asylum Seekers

Sexuality

  • Report of the Bolton and Wigan Lesbian Health Needs Assessment
  • The participation of lesbian, gay and bisexual communities and organisations in the neighbourhood renewal and local regeneration agenda
  • Information for Parents leaflet

Social inclusion

  • Community Cohesion Forum ( 8 th Oct 2004 )
  • The Bigger Picture – Community Cohesion in Rochdale
  • A report from the 2 nd Community Cohesion Forum ( 30 th April 2004 )
  • A framework for Community Cohesion Spring 2004, draft for consultation
  • Voluntary Sector Research Group – the role of Councils for Voluntary Service in the Social Inclusion Agenda
  • Inclusion – The newsletter for those involved in tackling social exclusion
  • Record of meeting – Community Cohesion Forum 3.10.03
  • Community Matters – Meeting the challenges of social inclusion, annual review 2001/02
  • Office for Public Management – What is Social Exclusion?
  • Inclusion update – Wigan education department
  • National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal – Enterprise and Social Exclusion
  • Opportunity for all – Tackling poverty and social exclusion – a summary of the first annual report 1999
  • The reality of social exclusion on housing estates (www.jrf.org.uk)
  • The impact of social exclusion on young people moving into adulthood (www.jrf.org.uk)
  • Community Cohesion guidance, December 2002 – Urban Forum & Race on the Agenda
  • National Coalition Building Institutes newsletter – ‘building active and inclusive communities through prejudice reduction & conflict resolution

Townships

  • Township Programme – team leaflets
  • Township Forum Community Registration Pack
  • Township Programme – the story so far
  • Township Forum Evaluation Event – Summary Report 1 st July 2004
  • Townships 1991 Census Demographic Profile
  • Wigan Borough Township Programme – leaflet
  • Untitled News – insert from Volume One ‘Questions on Township Forums answered by Sian Jay
  • Insert from Community Plan folder – Developing the Township Approach
  • Wigan Council – Networks in neighbourhoods
  • Wigan Council – Supporting community leadership: Working towards a Township approach, July 2001
  • Wigan Council – Community Networks: A short guide March 2001
  • Developing Community Networks in Wigan – a research paper prepared for the Community Issues Team May 2001
  • Community Networks Survey
  • Wigan Council – Bringing Neighbourhoods Together Summer 2001
  • Community Networks – discussion paper October 2000
  • Wigan Council – Community Involvement
  • Early issues identified through Township Forums
  • Townships Forum - Getting Involved

Wigan Borough Partnership – The Board

  • Latest minutes from this group

Resources off the Bookcase

New Start January 2002-June 2003

New Start July 2003-present

Regeneration & Renewal March 2002-April 2003

Regeneration & Renewal May 2003-December 2003

Regeneration & Renewal January 2004-present

Young People Now January 2003-December 2003

Young People Now January 2004-present

Conference Reports

  • Township Review Event ( 1 st July 2004 )
  • Third Sector Workshop ( 30 th June 2004 )
  • Introducing Community Newswire ( 25 th May 2004 )
  • Leigh Township Forum ( 5 th May 2004 )
  • WIZ website and Making Connexions Launch ( 30 th March 2004 )
  • Disability Discrimination Act ( 11 th March 2004 )
  • Inter-regional Community Empowerment Network ( 18 th February 2004 )
  • Conference for Disabled People and VCS Organisations ( 21 st May 2003 )
  • Community Participation Programme Review ( 5 th August 2003 )
  • Local Action Learning Plan ( 25 th-26 th June 2003 )
  • Social Inclusion Network ( 14 th July 2003 )
  • Voluntary Sector North West Annual Conference - 17.1.05

Council Minutes – Various

  • Shevington Parish Council
  • Haigh Parish Council
  • WMBC Council Minutes
  • WMBC Council Minutes & Supplementary Papers – 27 April 2005

Funding

  • The Paul Hamlyn Foundation; publishing training for the voluntary sector
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chests – Helping your community help itself (information leaflet, August 2002)
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit – NR Community Chests – A grant programme supporting community involvement in neighbourhood renewal (information booklet on fund and management of it, October 2001)
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Skills and Knowledge Programme (booklet - December 2001)
  • Douglas Valley Community Chest application forms
  • Douglas Valley Learning & Skills application forms
  • Douglas Valley Community Annual Report 2001/2002
  • Small grants available in Wigan July 2003
  • Money talks magazine
  • The Funding Directory November 2001
  • Community Fund – information
  • Funding available in borough
  • Lottery Opportunities across the UK
  • General funding information
  • What does the Economic Regeneration Office do?
  • A-Z of funding 2002-2003 (Regeneration & Renewal)

Health – Getting involved locally

  • Patient Advice and Liaison Service – We’re here to help leaflet
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust – Have your say on the future of our services (application form and freepost envelope)

In-house LSP Guide

  • Helping to Clear a Path through the Trees

Media / Communications

  • Information on local newspapers – circulation, area covered etc
  • Introducing the Quest Network
  • Making Better Use of IT Where You Work
  • Neighbourhood Renewal Unit – Media and PR Toolkit – how to create effective, engaging communities
  • Voluntary Matters 4 – communications tips
  • Voluntary Matters 4 – A training resource to build the communications skills your organisation needs (video)
  • Fact sheet on ‘Dealing with the Press’ produced by Mavis Fairhurst
  • BBC GMR bus leaflet
  • Examples of CEP press releases and useful contacts in the media
  • Developing a media strategy – print out from web page
  • Wigan Councils Communication Strategy 2002
  • The Quest guide to networking
  • Quest – What is a telephone conference?
  • Quest – Chair persons and lead speakers? (telephone conferences)
  • Quest – Organising a telephone conference?
  • Introducing Community Newswire information pack
  • Public Media – information about new community radio project
  • Women’s Electronic Village Hall – Annual Report 2002

Newsletters – Various

  • 0-19: A new start for children and young people (newsletter)
  • The Linc – the paper for young people in Wigan & Leigh
  • WCVYS
  • CVS bulletin ( Wigan & Leigh CVS)
  • In Focus – community news newsletter
  • The Golborne Grapevine
  • Third Sector
  • GMCVO – information bulletin
  • Salford Gazette ( Salford CVS)
  • Community Matters
  • Jigsaw – Neighbourhood Initiatives
  • Inter-Action (Oldham CVS – called ODACA)
  • Urban Forum clearway
  • Participate
  • Grass Routes – The Community News Service
  • Bassac – supporting people, sustaining communities

Regional Issues / Info

  • Information on the Red Cross
  • Networking in Your Region – learning to improve neighbourhoods together
  • Your Region, Your Choice: Revitalising the English Regions
  • North West Development Agency – newsletter
  • The Regional Forum – the voice of the voluntary and community organisations in Yorkshire & the Humber
  • North West Regional Network for Community Empowerment Workers – minutes of meetings
  • RENEW information – Northwest Regeneration Centre of Excellence
  • Introducing Community North West
  • North West Regeneration Network
  • Voluntary Sector North West – annual report 2002-2003
  • NOF - Regional brief working in the North West

Research & Books List

  • Voluntary Matters 4
  • NACVS – useful contacts sheet
  • Inter Faith Network publications
  • Niace – promoting adult learning – publications 2004
  • Capita information
  • Arvac bulletin and annual reveiws
  • Community Development Foundation – publications 2003
  • Community Matters – publications 2002-2003
  • Book list – GMCVO bulletin
  • TPAS – information
  • ASDAN publications catalogue, Spring 2003
  • Community Fund Annual Report 2002-2003

Voluntary / Community Sector

  • North West Planning Aid – engaging communities in planning (leaflet)
  • Change Up – Summary of Recommendations
  • Policy Review magazine
  • Community associations and CVS working together
  • Volunteer Charter (British Red Cross)
  • Volunteer Rights and checklist (Volunteering Australia)
  • Volunteer Charter (Community Radio Station)
  • Wigan Borough Voluntary & Community Directory September 2002
  • Wigan & Leigh CVS Annual Reports
  • To be or not to be – a fifth function for CVS (NACVS)
  • NCVO briefing – Voluntary sector infrastructure: a model for the future?
  • Community Matters – The Visible Difference, Making it Happen, standards for community associations
  • Financial Services for the Not for Profit Sector leaflet
  • Home Office – Building Civil Renewal – a review of Government support for community capacity building and proposals for change, 2003

Wigan Borough Council

  • Local election results May 2004
  • Best Value Performance Plan 2003-04
  • Borough Life
  • Wigan Borough wards
  • Wigan Council’s performance project 2001
  • Customer Care Charter – summary
  • Customer Care standards
  • Customer Care complaints procedure
  • A directory of Wigan council services 3 rd edition
  • Names of councillors elected on 1 st May 2003
  • Cabinet membership 2003/04
  • Wigan Borough Guide
  • Trends 2000 – mapping and indicators of need in the borough of Wigan
  • Periodic electoral review 2002
  • The State of the Borough – an economic, social and environmental audit of Wigan , September 2003 and slides
  • Wigan Council – information pack
  • Wigan Council – Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000
  • The New Agenda in Wigan – Best Value

Bookcase shelves:

  • The Regeneration Game (boardgame)
  • Action Learning Matters – cards explaining what action learning is and how to set it up
  • Fail to Plan: Plan to Fail – a toolkit for black voluntary and community organisations
  • Making a Difference: a resource pack for people who want to become more active citizens
  • Wigan Borough Community Plan (part 3)
  • Partnership and Planning Group Pack – produced by Sefton CVS and supported by Sefton CEP
  • Urban Forum - The LSP Guide – extra copies
  • CVS Annual Report
  • The North West and Disability – Committed for Inclusion, Accepting the Challenge
  • Community Plan summary – extra copies
  • Wigan Borough Health survey 2001 – extra copies
  • Policy & Research from Manchester Enterprises – Area Profile : Wigan

The following additions have recently been made to the CEP Library:

  • Smarter Delivery, Better Neighbourhoods – How the Spending Review covering 2005-2008 will affect Neighbourhood Renewal (Neighbourhood Renewal)
  • Operations Group Mtg – 17.2.05 (Operations Group)
  • Wigan Council Planning & Regeneration Dept – Agenda and papers for Partnership Mtg 13.4.05 (Wigan Borough Council)
  • Getting Citizens Involved: Community Participation in Neighbourhood Renewal – Oct 2004 (Neighbourhood Renewal)
  • Neighbourhod Initiatives – Practical Tools for Community Action – Training Programme Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 (Education/Training General)
  • Sharing Community Development Training Ideas (Education/Training General)
  • Making Changes – A Strategic Framework for Community Development Learning in England (Education/Training General)
  • Federation for Community Development Learning – Using Mapping – Sharing Practice Sheet No. 5 (Education/Training General)
  • Working with Allies – Celebrating Success, Learning from Mistakes and Building the Future (Community Development)
  • Celebrating Achievement – Community Development Learning Fund Evaluation Report (Community Development)
  • National Statistics – Statistics about Wigan from 2001 Census (Regional Issues/Info)
  • Income Support Claimants - Wigan Stats 2001-2003 (Regional Issues/Info)
  • Roman Catholic Church Hierarchy (Faith General)
  • Enterprising – Report on Manchester ’s Social Enterprise Sector – Issue 4 (Regional Issues/Info)
  • Common Purpose Profile – For leaders who need local briefings (Education/Training General)
  • Common Purpose Matrix – For leaders who want more (Education/Training General)
  • Community Safety Forum - Contact Booklet 2004 Edition – St Helens (Community Safety Regional)
  • Crime, Disorder and Drugs Strategy 2005-2008 (Community Safety Documents)
  • The Guide to Careers in Regeneration 2005-2006 (Regional Issues/Info)
  • Mapping Poverty in Wigan – Report 3 – Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000 (Regional Issues/Info)
Greater Manchester Cares – Issue 15 – Employee Volunteering Opportunities (Regional Issues/Info)

 

 

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