Community Development is concerned with bringing services to individuals and communities.
Project development is a way of acquiring funding and organising our time to deliver these services.
What services?
- Information and advice
- Training (see below for further information)
- Support with running an organisation; constitutional matters, employment practice, writing bids
- Recruiting and supporting voluntary action
- Funding advice
- Creating and promoting forums and channels used by government and other bodies to influence decisions made about the Community
- Promoting ‘good practice’
- Consulting the community about services that they would like
Training
We run an on-going programme of training courses relevant to the Voluntary and Community sector. Follow this link to current training courses
Either complete your booking on-line via current training courses/events page or download our Course Booking Form (PDF File) complete and return to Debbie Grace, Community Development Worker:
Community First New Forest
Public Offices
65 Christchurch Road
Ringwood
BH24 1DH
Older People's Well-Being Strategy for Hampshire
The Older People’s Well-Being Strategy for Hampshire is being updated for the next 3 years and Hampshire County Council needs your views. Follow this link to a short questionnaire where you will be asked what your priorities are to enable older people to remain independent in their own homes with a positive quality of life http://www3.hants.gov.uk/bettertime/cx-olderpeoplesstrategy.htm The deadline for returning completed questionnaires is 24 September 2010.
Innovations
Under Hampshire’s Local Area Agreement, a flagship initiative has been set up to promote the well-being of older people. The underlying principle of Innovations is that it is primarily a preventative service that encourages and enables older people to engage in activities that promote their independence, health, wellbeing and self worth, thus reducing their need for emergency services, health and social care.
Community First New Forest currently employs four Community Development Workers who are part of our staff team, but who work with four Community Innovations Teams in the District who are part of the Community Innovations Partnership.
In each area a local Community Innovations Team will work with older people who are becoming more vulnerable with the aim of reintegrating them within their communities to boost their well-being, slow their growing vulnerability, and reduce their need for expensive and distressing emergency interventions.
Through this it is anticipated that there will be a reduction in the need for emergency hospital day beds, visits to and from GPs, admissions to residential care and home care. The development worker’s role is to develop the capacity of the voluntary and community sector to support vulnerable older people in the community.
For more information visit: www3.hants.gov.uk/adult-services/aboutas/structure/community-innovations.htm
Independent Safeguarding Authority - Briefing note for voluntary and community groups
To make an enquiry, please contact:
Community Development
Tel. 01425 482773
email: cdmanager@cfnf.org.uk |
