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Listening to the community | |||||||||
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The Communities First areas of Cornelly, Wildmill, Brackla and Sarn have embarked on a research project aimed at building an evidence base to inform the work of their emerging Communities First Partnerships. |
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Communities First officers, community members and representatives of agencies working in communities are working closely with the Programme for Community Regeneration at the University of Glamorgan to deliver a range of research methods, including a community questionnaire. | |||||||||
The final audit report for all four Communities First areas will be published early in 2010. |
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Check out the Cornelly, Wildmill, Brackla and Sarn Communities First websites to keep up-to-date. | |||||||||
Minister opens Wildmill Community Hub | |||||||||
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Carwyn Jones, Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Business and Communications, recently opened the community hub building in Wildmill. |
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The building will provide a new focus for the community of Wildmill and a home for the Communities First Partnership. Visit Communities First Wildmill’s website for more details. | |||||||||
New partnership for Outcomes Fund demonstration project | |||||||||
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The Communities First Partnerships of Cornelly and Wildmill have been chosen by the Welsh Assembly Government to deliver a Demonstration Project under the Communities First Outcomes Fund. The innovative Family Employment and Social Enterprise Initiative was one of only seven successful applications. |
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The project is a partnership between Communities First, Bridgend County Borough Council’s Economic Development Unit, Valleys to Coast and the British Trust of Countryside Volunteers. | |||||||||
The aim of the project is to create supported pathways to employment and training by engaging individuals and families in the delivery of small scale local environmental projects and providing a comprehensive range of support services which address barriers to employment. |
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As well as providing a route to mainstream employment, the project will provide a focus for the development of estate-based social enterprises which will undertake environmental maintenance programmes under contract to Valleys to Coast, the housing association which manages the majority of housing in the two areas. |
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The key outcomes of the project will be increased numbers of local people in work, greater opportunities for families and individuals to participate in a wide range of small-scale community environmental opportunities, and a clearer pathway to the development of self-employment, co-operatives, community businesses and social enterprises. |
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