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The network for all community activists in Yorkshire & Humber
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A regional partnership for everyone involved in developing active citizenship
News and Features
What Makes Us Healthy?
'What makes us healthy? is the follow up to 'A glass half-full: how an asset based approach can improve community health and wellbeing is now published.
‘What makes us healthy? The asset approach in practice: evidence, action, evaluation', written by Jane Foot, has information on the evidence for the beneficial effects of assets such as social relationships and networks on health and wellbeing; ideas about how to put asset principles into practice; and help with assessing whether these new ways of working are having an impact.
Lessons for Localism: Tenant self management
This timely report maps the progress of Tenant Management Organisations (TMOs) across England. It explores their impact and provides an analysis of the different success factors and pitfalls relevant to TMOs success and sustainability.
A key purpose is to highlight the often neglected area of tenant managed services and explore what this tells us about the potential for more resident and user run services in the new Localism agenda
Asset Based Community Development
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) has been getting a lot of publicity recently. Some of you may have attended either the 2 day workshop in Manchester or the 1 day event in Shefield facilitated by Jim Diers and Cormac Russell.
Community Rights Made Real workshops
We are supporting Urban Forum and NAVCA in putting on two FREE workshops in the region to prepare for the practicalities, opportunities and challenges of the rights within the Localism Act. We want to support inclusion and equality in how the new rights are taken up; focusing in particular on the needs of communities who currently lack power.
The workshops will have three sections focusing: two on the two community rights and one on neighbourhood planning (in partnership with Planning Aid UK).
More details and booking online for
Localism
The Localism Act finally became law on the 15th November. It is a major part of the Coalition Government's drive for decentralisation and has five key areas ( Government page on the five key measures)
Community Rights * Neighbourhood Planning * Housing * General Power of Competence * Empowering Cities and other local areas.
People, Power, Money
Date and time:
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 09:30 - 14:00
Venue:
St Georges Centre, Leeds 
Exciting FREE conference
Key note speaker: Shazia Hussain
Director of the Tower Hamlets Partnership, where local residents decided how £4.8 million of council money was spent effectively.
Shazia's presentation is now available to download below
A conference report will be available shortly
Residents Action in the Community
Date and time:
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 10:00 - 15:00
Venue:
Leeds Church Institute 
Speakers and Workshops
John Grayson on the residents/tenants’ movement as a radical and campaigning force
Richard Crossley on the framework of tenants’ organisations, their rights and capability
Community Challenge
YCAN are runningt an exciting 'Community Challenge' as part of the YHEP conference Challenging Scoiety? taking place on September 23rd in Bradford.
The session will comprise a fast moving quiz format, where YCAN will be posing a series of questions and issues for the conference participants to address. Participants will be people from Locasl Authorities, Voluntary and community organisations, mostly those involved with community engagement or community empowerment activities. They will be asked to come up with solutions to key issues facing communities.
Challenging Society?
Date and time:
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 10:00 - 15:00
Venue:
University of Bradford 
People, Power, Policy and Place
Participants enjoyed a thought provoking conference last Friday with 3 fantastic speakers and a range of challenging workshops. The speakers presentations are now available below and the notes from the workshops plus evaluation feedback will be posted shortly.
The afternoon 'quiz' Community Challenge session hosted by YCAN produced a huge number of ideas and solutions in response to the questions posed. All of them will also be posted on the YCAN website in the next few days
Speakers
- Phil Coppard, CEO Barnsley Council - Download Presentation
- Liz Richardson, Manchester University, author of DIY Community Action: Neighbourhood problems and community self help - Download presentation
- Davy Jones, ex audit commission, freelance commentator on government and public services - Download presentation
Open Public Services White Paper
The Government's White Paper on reforming public services has just been published. You can download a copy here - attached below. There is also a new government website about the proposed reforms called Opening Public Services
http://www.openpublicservices.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
You can also use the link below to the Cabinet office website and see a video of the Prime Minister's speech on Public Services
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-public-services-white-paper
