http://www.www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/ Latest News Headlines from www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/assets/images/rss/maceandjones.gif http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk en neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk sport Wed, 15 May 2013 11:36:53 BST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/thank-you-from-neighbourhoods-nw..html It's the End of an Era! We are sad to say that Neighbourhoods NW will be closing its doors at the end of this month. We have been inspired by so many who share our drive to improve neighbouhroods.... Thu, 09 May 2013 10:11:33 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/12669/neighbourhoods-nw-and-keep-britain-tidy..html #Despite The Cuts: Engaging People, Engaging Places. This event is aimed at generating new ways of thinking around creating national models for citizen-led action in the places we love. It is free to ... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:21:00 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/census-key-statistics-and-downloads.html At the end of last year the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published their analysis of the 2011 Census. The Key Statistics download is a 43 page document covering the Census results for 3 key ar... Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:42:04 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/local-government-time-for-some-different-skills.html Here at Neighbourhoods NW we have worked closely with communities, residents and local delivery teams to establish the essential local working skills needed to work effectively in neighbourhoods. From... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:18:00 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/12656/happy-new-year.html Happy New Year Here's to an innovative and positive 2013 for neighbourhoods and all who live, work and lead in them! Get your ideas flowing and your know-how off to a flying start check out our ... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:42:22 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/making-it-easier-for-civil-society-to-work-with-the-state..html The Cabinet Office has published the latest document in it's update around Civil Society, it's called 'Making it Easier for Civil Society to Work with the State'. It is a stock take of... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:03:09 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/neighbourhoods-nw-policy-forum-building-neighbourhoods-from-a-grass-roots-approach..html Our latest Policy Forum gave attendees the opportunity to learn how Warrington Borough Council and LiveWire Warrington Community Interest Company have collaborated to unlock capacity, create savings a... Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:00:49 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/12647/12648/neighbourhoods-now-and-keep-britain-tidy-team-up-to-keep-engagement-high-on-the-agenda.html Neighbourhoods NOW has been asked to partner Keep Britain Tidy to share our Community Engagement expertise and resources with their growing national network. Last week we were at the National Keep Bri... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:26:29 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/neighbourhoods-nw-and-keep-britain-tidy..html Keep Britain Tidy are holding their annual Network Conference and Awards in Sheffield on 27th and 28th November 2012. This event aims to assist land managers improve performance in local environmental... Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:05:38 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/welcome-to-welfare-the-new-families-in-need-of-support.html Welfare reform and its impacts on local communities is a major focus for neighbourhood teams as we work in partnership locally to establish who will be affected, how and what services will still be av... Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:30:31 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/new-north-west-community-empowerment-award-launched..html North West Together We Can have launched their new Community Empowerment Awards for 2012. This scheme awards community projects that have made a positive difference in their communities over the last ... Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:43:00 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/our-next-policy-forum-is-available-to-book-on.html 'Building Neighbourhoods from a Grass Roots Approach.' - we can now share details of our next Policy Forum being held at LiveWire CIC in Warrington on 14th December 2012. This event will showc... Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:15:15 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/neighbourhoods-nw-strategic-panel-welfare-reform.html The theme of this event was all about participating in practical sessions to review and focus on front line teams meeting the needs of residents as Welfare Reform impacts. We were very pleased wtih no... Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:13:52 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/new-research-from-citizens-advice..html Citizens Advice launch social housing survey that has found landlords could help tenants save around £40 a month by offering one-to-one financial skills training. On average those given the train... Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:39:31 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/crowdfunding-and-neighbourhood-improvement-projects..html Crowdfunding is a way of funding projects by getting usually small contributions from many funders. Spacehive is the first funding platform for neighbourhood improvement projects. For people with an i... Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:47:14 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/dglg-have-updated-potential-funding-for-community-spaces-..html This document sets out the potential funding available to community and voluntary organisations to start either a food growing or community orchards project. It identifies the different grant schemes ... Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:12:10 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/universal-credit-pilots-named..html Twelve local authority led pilot projects will support people to claim Universal Credit. They will run from this Autumn and include help for claimants to build computer skills to claim Universal Credi... Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:09:39 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/monatgue-report-review-of-the-barriers-to-institutional-investment-in-private-rented-homes..html This long awaited report commisisoned by Grant Shapps has finally been published. It presents a series of recommendations for speeding up the timescale for building privately rented homes and thus inc... Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:36:14 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/supporting-empowerment-of-older-people-to-live-a-fuller-role-in-the-community..html This Lloyds TSB Foundation Fund aims to support innovative and proactive work that encourages empowerment and independence of older people living in difficult financial circumstances. It is aimed at c... Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:30:39 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/-caring-for-our-future-reforming-care-and-support-white-paper-published..html The Department of Health has published the 'Caring for our future: reforming care and support' White Paper, which sets out the vision for a reformed care and support system. Local Authorities ... Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:43:29 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/troubled-families-report..html Governmet advisor Louise Casey has published 'Listening to Troubled Families' in which she interviewed 16 families to compile the report detailing the task facing the government. The programme... Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:42:43 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/neighbouhrood-planning..html There has been a new report launched by the Minister for Local Government Greg Clark MP, published by ResPublica and the Royal Institute of British Architects which calls for greater formal recognitio... Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:10:01 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/dwp-publishes-reseach-report-into-proposed-changes-to-the-welfare-system.html Between October 2013 and the end of 2017, all existing claims to income based Jobseekers Allowance (JSA), Income Support (IS), income based Employment Support Allowance (ESA), Housing Benefit (HB), Wo... Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:05:46 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/community-events-developing-relationships.html Together at our recent Policy Forum we explored stories, experiences and ideas to build upon the community events energy and commitment from resident volunteers to create long term, sustaining legacie... Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:01:17 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/your-place-and-mine-report-launched.html Neighbourhoods NW have today launched our latest report on neighbourhood working across the region. Sheila Battersby, Policy Manager NW, Office for Civil Society and Tim Birch, Neighbourhood Manager, ... Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:01:10 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/new-fund-for-innovative-community-learning.html The Skills Funding Agency has launched the £4million Community Learning Innovation Fund (CLIF). Managed by NIACE, the fund will provide grants from £10k up to £65k to groups and organis... Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:37:41 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/cih-conference.html On Tuesday Neighbourhoods NW sent our membership coordintator, Rae to meet with housing professionals at the CIH exhibition. Rae met lots of organisations that she believed offered practical solu... Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:03:53 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/community-right-to-build..html The Community Right to Build became law on 6th April 2012 and forms part of the neighbourhood planning provisions contained in the Localism Act 2011. On 29th May Housing Minister Grant Schapps announc... Thu, 31 May 2012 10:47:35 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/new-community-rights-website..html The Department for Communities and Local Government have launched the Community Rights Website to give people more information about the new powers and opportunities open to them under the Localism Ac... Tue, 29 May 2012 11:11:40 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/communities-in-action-get-on-the-map.html The Department for Communities and Local Government have launched an online Communities in Action map on which local groups can add thier projects. The idea is to highlight projects that are making a ... Tue, 29 May 2012 10:21:06 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/elections-day.html It's elections day and in addition to the local elections residents in two cities across the North West will be voting for an elected mayor, which is a significant change in how residents can be ... Thu, 03 May 2012 11:53:20 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/clasp-project-support-funding.html CLASP is now accepting new applications for project support funding. Funding of up to £15,000 per project is available for Local Authority led projects that: Tackle critical and immediate barri... Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:41:41 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/there-has-been-an-open-public-services-white-paper-update..html In this update David Cameron claims that as global economies continue to deteriorate the case for radical reform has become even stronger. He states that given the fiscal constraints the only feasible... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:11:52 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/northwich-and-rural-north-area-partnership-board-launch-their-community-engagement-plan-and-tookit.html Included were voluntary groups and Elected Members as they are an integral part of the APB Membership and have an active role in engagement activity. The plan maps and promotes engagement activity acr... Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:17:09 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/neighbourhoods-nw-regional-policy-forum-social-values-and-impact.html We all learnt alot at our last policy forum which was framed around exploring the process to collate, measure and report your social value. You can catch up with the information offered at the event i... Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:24:36 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/undoing-the-challenges-around-community-engagement.html Neighbourhoods NW were invited to host 2 workshops as part of the Lancashire and Cumbria Integrated Working Conference, 23 Mar 2012, as part of their ongoing work on the upcoming Your Place & Mine... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:18:15 BST http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/what-will-the-budgets-mean-for-the-north-west.html It's very early to understand the full implications of the budget announcements for the North West, but in this article we bring together some voices with opinions of what it could mean for our re... Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:06:51 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/neighbourhoods-nw-to-present-mentoring-workshop.html Neigbourhoods NW are hosting an introductory workshop on Mentoring. The workshop has been developed to support the introductory stages of the enterprise mentoring journey. This half day training work... Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:44:24 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/a-monumental-piece-of-legislation-that-will-affect-you-and-your-communities.html The introduction of the Public Services (Social Value) Bill will require public bodies including councils, for the first time, to consider the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of an area w... Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:40:23 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/the-big-society-the-big-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html Yesterday we were at the The Big Society: The Big Divide conference led by Just West Yorkshire. We enjoyed listening to speakers including Anna Coote from the New Economies Foundation talking abo... Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:23:52 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/12577/find-out-more-about-community-renewable-energy.html Wrexham Environmental Network are hosting an event on Saturday 17th March - Energy Saving and Renewable Energy Event and Neighbourhoods NW's Liz Boylan has been invited to run taster workshops. Th... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:31:36 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/the-blackburn-with-darwen-local-invovlement-network-link.html The LINk is an independent organisation here to listen to the local people and organisations of Blackburn with Darwen, helping to improve the quality of services to all that use them. Through legisl... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:17:29 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/great-results-and-feedback-from-recent-courses.html All our recent training programmes have received outstanding feedback from the participants with the evaluations from the last one - Community Renewable Energy Course - showing a continuation of our e... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:59:20 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/new-challenges-for-neighbourhood-working-need-new-skills.html Our capacity, monitoring, resources and perceived roles in neighbourhoods have all been challenged to some extent and for some, have changed beyond recognition. Measuring Impact has been consistently ... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:14:43 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/new-joseph-rowntree-report-serving-deprived-communities-in-a-a-recession..html Local authorities serving the most deprived communities have been hit the hardest by public spendiung cuts this report by Joseph Rowntree Foundation concludes. The study provides an insight into how l... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:52:26 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/attracting-investment-to-create-thriving-neighbourhoods-membership-strategic-panel.html Our series of Membership events this year have been all about Collaboration and January's Strategic Panel, Attracting Investment to Create Thriving Neighbourhoods, was no exception. The Panels are... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:57:49 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/police-commissioners-elections-november-2012.html With the election of police commissioners, the referendums for city mayors and a predicted government reshuffle there is talk about a new democratic landscape. For local working a key development will... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:53:29 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/welfare-reform-bill-update..html The Welfare Reform Bill is progressing through its report stage in the House of Lords. Most recently, this week they have suffered defeat over the benefit cap plan but Ministers have said that they wi... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:16:27 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/reports-from-the-government-s-citizenship-survey-now-available..html This survey has been commissioned every year since 2001 and asks questions around race equality, faith, feelings about community, volunteering and participation. Three new topic reports, based on this... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:12:08 GMT http://www.neighbourhoods-nw.co.uk/news/archive/12562/working-in-neighbourhoods-level-3-pilots.html As part of the development of this new programme we ran two pilot courses with groups of willing volunteers, both courses ran for 5 days each. At the end, we worked with the participants to evaluate ... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:02:30 GMT