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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
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.
One of three studies in a series illustrating the contribution that community development can make to community empowerment.
One of three studies in a series illustrating the contribution that community development can make to community empowerment.
This collection of 15 case studies will highlight real examples of good practice between public sector bodies and VCS organisations and groups in rural communities. The profiles will detail how the partners from the two sectors collaborate effectively and gain a collective value from their shared expertise and activities.
Launched in 2008, Altogether Better is a five year programme designed to deliver innovative evidenced based models of engaging and empowering communities to improve their health and well-being.
The Programme, hosted by NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, is a regional-local collaborative partnership. There is a project
within every Primary Care Trust locality across Yorkshire and the Humber
This story of neighbourhood activity illustrates the holistic nature of community activity and how one thing can lead to another. Haris Livas-Dawes shares with us the journey of community activity in one Hull neighbourhood.
This is the story of how One Barnsley kick-started the process of involving local people in looking at how to get rural issues discussed, taken seriously and included.
The first two stories in a series from the 'Connecting Communities' areas within Yorkshire and the Humber have now been published.
Connecting Communities is a programme of activity designed to promote cohesion and specifically, to address the marginalisation felt amongst some sections of the community in deprived neighbourhoods.
In September 2009 a group of practitioners, policy officers and academics met with two international participation activists, to reflect on 'the case for participation'. The purpose of the workshop was to encourage people to move beyond what we already know about the challenges and opportunities of participation, and to think creatively and constructively about how to embed and develop this agenda.
People Power
01/10/2010 - 10:00 - 15:30
How Yorkshire and the Humber Works
14/10/2010 - 13:00 - 16:00
Big Society Unplugged
11/11/2010 - 09:00 - 16:00
