Community Development

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
Archstone House
Pullman Business Park, Pullman Way
Ringwood, Hampshire.
BH24 1HD.

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. 

As part of the support, advice and guidance offered by Innovations, Directories have been compiled with contact details for a vast range of services relevant to older people.  Follow the links for Directories covering the Avon Valley, South West, Totton and Waterside areas of the New Forest.

For more information visit: www3.hants.gov.uk/adult-services/aboutas/structure/community-innovations.htm

ISA briefing from community organisations – September 2010 (PDF file size 24Kb)

To make an enquiry, please contact:

Community Development

Tel. 01425 482773

email: cdmanager@cfnf.org.uk

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Archstone House, Pullman Business Park, Pullman Way, Ringwood BH24 1HD

Telephone: 01425 482773            Fax: 01425 482666            Email: admin@cfnf.org.uk

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