Locality ‘13
Convention programme
Day one
9.15am – 10.45am
Registration and refreshments
10.45am – 12.00pm Welcome to Leicester - Priya Thamotheram, Highfields Centre
Plenary - Building possibility: the challenge of austerity
Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society; Mary O’Hara, journalist;
Rob Berkeley, Runnymede Trust; Ed Cox, IPPR North
Across the UK, vulnerable and marginalised people are wrestling with a
combination of drastic cuts to services and far-reaching welfare changes.
At the same time, many of the community organisations on which people
rely heavily for support are battling to survive as grants dwindle and local
government contracts either vanish or go to private firms – while others are
developing new and innovative approaches in response. So where do we go
from here?
12.15pm – 1.15pm
Lunch, drop-in surgeries & networking
1.15pm – 3.00pm
Workshops, masterclasses, debate and visits
Workshops
Get information and inspiration from one of our practitioner-led workshops:
• The Community Rights to Bid, Build and Challenge: what do they offer you?
Featuring Stephen Rolph, Locality; Caroline Forster, SIB; David Alcock, Anthony Collins
Solicitors; Jon Stevens, HACT
• Your community, your choice: how you can use the Supporting
Communities in Neighbourhood Planning programme.
Featuring Carole Reilly, Locality; Geoff Botting, Woodcote Parish Council; Dave Chapman
• Community enterprise for beginners: an interactive ‘speed learning’ session
to test and develop your enterprise ideas. Featuring Sophie Michelena, Locality
• The universal language: how local food can build community.
Featuring Sophie Antonelli, the Green Back Yard; Jennie Street, Rhubarb Farm
• Positive volunteering: demonstrating real community leadership and
engagement. Featuring Sona Mahtani, Selby Trust; David Symes & William Buchan, Island
Community Action
• A kick up the arts – using community arts to engage and involve.
Featuring Catherine Ralph, Staffordshire University; Rachel Abrahams, Charnwood Arts
Masterclasses
Develop your skills and understanding at a masterclass:
• Raising your profile through the press and social media.
Featuring Paul Barnard, Media Trust
• Measuring impact: what to measure, who to ask and what to ask them.
Featuring Andy Cheng and Penny Shimmin, Newhaven Community Development Trust
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Visits: Seeing for yourself
Visit one of Leicester’s outstanding social and community enterprises to see
innovation and excellence in action:
• LCB Depot and Makers’ Yard: dynamic, entrepreneurial hubs for many of
Leicester’s most exciting creative industries.
• Highfields Community Centre: a former local authority-owned multipurpose community centre brought into community ownership after a ten
year campaign.
• Soft Touch Arts: use arts, media and music activities to inspire and engage
young people and help them to develop creative, social and employability
skills.
• Saffron Resource Centre: Youth and Acres projects: two for the price
of one! Catch a Saffron Resource Centre Youth project and then visit a
once neglected four acre site transformed into a thriving allotment and
community garden.
3.00pm – 3.30pm
Refreshments, networking and drop-in surgeries
Workshops, masterclasses and Organising in Action
3.30pm – 5.15pm
Workshops
Get information and inspiration from one of our practitioner-led workshops:
• Social finance and social investment: an overview.
Featuring Hugh Rolo, Locality; Caroline Forster, SIB; David Hutchison, Social Finance;
Simon Borkin, Community Shares Unit; Ged Devlin, Cooperatives UK
• Joint ventures: is collaboration the way forward for the sector?
Featuring David Alcock, Anthony Collins Solicitors; Michaela Howell & Mick Binns, Bardford
Trident
• An untapped resource: transnational European funding and the 2014-20
Structural Funds.
Featuring Sandra Turner, NCVO/BIS; Russell Yates, Progressive European Solutions
• Community housing: a new opportunity for the sector?
Featuring Catherine Harrington, National CLT Network; Jo Gooding, UK Cohousing
Network; Mike McCusker, Fresh Horizons
• Contract readiness: procurement, preparing tenders and co-designing
services. Featuring Chris Beety, Community Ventures (Middlesborough); Chris Hart, Pulse
Regeneration Ltd;
• Meanwhile use: bringing life back to the high street.
Featuring Nicola Greenan LS14; Eddie Bridgeman, Meanwhile Space CIC
Masterclasses
Develop your skills and understanding at a masterclass:
• Raising your profile through the press and social media.
Featuring Paul Barnard, Media Trust
• Measuring Impact: what to measure, who to ask and what to ask them.
Featuring Andy Cheng and Penny Shimmin, Newhaven Community Development Trust
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Ambitions for Community Organising
Join our demo to see how community organising can change people,
organisations and places. Learn how to grow community power through
broad-based organising. Find out how a trained Community Organiser could
build the strength of your organisation and your community. Be part of the
debate about the future of community organising. Featuring community organisers
from around the country and the CO programme team
5.15pm – 6.00pm
Refreshments, networking, drop-in surgeries and fringe meetings
Fringe meetings give you an opportunity to set your own agenda. Let us know
what you want and we’ll try to arrange it!
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Pre-dinner reception and drinks
A chance to meet old friends and make new ones in a relaxed and informal
environment. Be ready to network, share your stories and learn from others.
7.30pm - 9.00pm
Convention dinner
Relax and enjoy an evening of fun, good food and good company in the
unique setting of The Curve Theatre.
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Day two
8.30am – 9.45am
Registration, refreshments, surgeries and networking
9.00am – 9.45am
Locality AGM (members only)
9.45am – 11.00am
Plenary: Doing things differently
Duncan Sloan, RBS; Annemarie Naylor, Common Futures; Pam Warhurst,
Incredible Edible; Ben Haggarty, Crick Crack Club
There are communities ambitious for change across the country. New and
innovative approaches are being developed and this session will introduce
cutting edge thinking and practice around local economies, community
enterprise and community cohesion. You’ll be left full of ideas and inspiration!
11.00am - 11.30am
Refreshments, networking and drop-in surgeries
11.30am – 1.15pm
Workshops, visits and The Imagination Station
Workshops
Get information and inspiration from one of our practitioner-led workshops:
• Managing in difficult times: lessons from Locality’s member crisis
management ‘lifeboat’ programme.
Featuring Neal Trup, Locality; Dave Clarson, Burton Street Foundation
• Heritage assets: how can your community successfully own and manage
historic land and buildings?
Featuring Ian Lush, Architectural Heritage Fund; Jess Steele, Jericho Road Solutions
• The next frontier: using cutting-edge technology for community benefit.
Featuring Annika Small, Nominet Trust; Marc De’ath, Creative Co-op
• The Social Value Act: what value is it to us?
Featuring Jeff Scales, Blackburn Council; Sarah Lines, Anthony Collins Solicitors
• Opportunities within the health agenda.
Featuring Mark Gamsu, Leeds Metropolitan University; Dave Dawes, Nurse First
• Neighbourhood Budgeting and the Our Place programme: putting
spending in the hands of local people.
Featuring Steve Wyler and Margaret Adjaye, Locality; Ron Ley, Illfracombe Town Council
• Community-owned public open spaces: the next great challenge?
Featuring Andy Jackson, Heeley Development Trust; Mark Walton, Shared Assets
The Imagination Station
A ‘mini-plenary’ on multi-disciplinary youth initiatives and engaging young
people. Be inspired by the creativity on display and share ideas about what’s
needed from the sector to involve and challenge young people to become
active citizens in these difficult times. If you work with young people then this
is a must! Featuring Vince Attwood, Soft Touch Arts
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Visits: Seeing for yourself
Visit one of Leicester’s outstanding social and community enterprises to see
innovation and excellence in action:
• Saffron Resource Centre: Youth and Acres projects: two for the price
of one! Catch a Saffron Resource Centre Youth project and then visit a
once neglected four acre site transformed into a thriving allotment and
community garden.
• B-Inspired (The Braunstone Foundation): creating a successful
neighbourhood through embracing and nurturing talent and potential in an
exciting and diverse community.
• Highfields Centre: a former local authority-owned multi-purpose
community centre brought into community ownership after a ten year
campaign.
• The Race Equality Centre: challenging discrimination and actively
promoting a racially just, fair and equitable society.
1.15pm – 2.15pm
Lunch, drop-in surgeries and networking
2.15pm – 3.45pm
Plenary: Building Possibility – a new deal between community and
state?
Bernadette McAliskey, South Tyrone Empowerment Programme;
Dawn Austwick OBE, BIG; Lucy de Groot, Community Service Volunteers
We want to see communities where people can feel a sense of pride and
ownership. However, whether driven by spending cuts, changing demography,
increasing demand, advancing technology, or by aspiration for better public
services, there is widespread recognition that things simply can’t continue as
they are. So what does the future hold? Is there a better way?
3.45pm
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