Voices

Sharing best practice in youth engagement

This voices was produced by the Brathay Trust based on 5 case studies of interviews with young people. The document highlights the young people's perspectives on youth participation, youth voice and youth empowerment, set in the context of current literature and practice.

It demonstrates some of the complexities of adult-youth partnership working and draws out 10 key points for good practice

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Migration Workers in rural areas - 7 years on

Report from a seminar bringing together people working with migrant workers -seven years after workers from the new EU countries were allowed to come and work in the UK. As the Workers Registration Scheme ends, how had things improved - or remained difficult - for them and for the communities in which they have settled

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Supporting rural empowerment through community enterprise

In February 2011, the Plunkett Foundation hosted two workshops to share the realities and successes of rural community enterprise. In this briefing, we provide four case studies of Yorkshire rural enterprise

The implications of the Localism Bill for rural community development workers

This Voices is a record of an event organised by the Yorkshire & Humber Community Development Network in February 2011, in Goole.

It highlights the inputs made on the day together with key points arising from the workshop and plenary discussions

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Re-imagining Community Involvement case studies

This new set of case studies showcases the key facilitation role that voluntary and community organisations play to support people getting involved in decisions that affect their lives. The case studies were commissioned by the Yorkshire and Humber Empowerment Partnership and produced by the Yorkshire & Humber Forum.

Hard copies are also available from the Yorkshire & Humber Forum. www.yorkshirehumberforum.org.uk

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Voices from Experience - Davies Court Dinnington & Maltby Model Village Community Association

Part of a series of stories about communities within South Yorkshire designed to show how communities can achieve visible change within their locality by working together and with local service providers.

The stories have been compiled by Ray Hearne, Chair of the No Masters Co-operative that celebrates writing of prose and songs that address issues from communities.

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From Engagement to Empowerment

The purpose of the ‘Champions’ workshop was to enable people to ‘think outside the box’ - to
listen to each other’s perspectives and learn from international experiences of participation
– and to kickstart dialogue that would inform and inspire future strategies for empowerment
across the region.

Participants spent 2 days listening to each others’ perspectives, analysing their different
experiences and developing a range of new ideas about what might be done locally, regionally

Causing an Effect?

What the national indicator scores tell us about the Third Sector and empowerment in Yorkshire and the Humber.

The Yorkshire and Humber Regional Forum has collated and compared various data sets relating to citizen involvement and the third sector, to examine whether there are any significant connections between empowerment and the shape, ‘health’ and size of the sector.