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What do we do?

 

Community development is about working with local people to help them identify issues that concern them and to find local answers to local issues.

 

Priorities for our work are supporting young people, young families, providing opportunities for people to work together through community arts projects and building up a strong community sector. The project offers hands on support. Often community development workers can only support a process – facilitate bringing together a group of people, provide a time limited support that helps people organise themselves.

 

While the project believes firmly in people taking responsibility and in empowering people, we are also able to go one step further – to provide a management framework when needed that enables things to happen.

 

We currently have a staff team of two full-time workers and 30 sessional workers. The Co-ordinator for the project is Julie Snelling. Mo Bell is the Office Manager and ensures the smooth running of the administrative side of the project. Ruth Cornish is the Youth Development Worker for Bradley Stoke and manages a team of staff who deliver detached youth work in the town, run three nights a week youth work at Baileys Court Activity Centre, a young mums group, a youth forum and a regular football coaching session in partnership with Bristol Rovers and the Police.

 

Our members can also benefit from low cost office services, such as photocopying, laminating, comb-binding etc and we have several software packages such as Funder Finder that we can help you use to track down organisations that may fund your group.

 

If you wish to become a member of the Southern Brooks Community Partnership, please fill in and return a membership form. A copy of this is available in the 'Downloads' section of this site.

 

Recent successes in Bradley Stoke include:

• Working with the town council, local churches and other organisations to put on a community festival.

• Organising a residents meeting to give local people a chance to talk to organisations such as the Police, the youth service and the town council about issues that concern them.

• Working with South Glos Council and the town council to undertake a community consultation about people’s unmet social, recreational and learning needs.

• Working with the town council, South Gloucestershire Council, young people and local residents to find suitable land for a skate park.

• Working with health visitors and local parents to set up a twins groups.

• With the town council, providing opportunities for people living and working in the community to meet over lunch or breakfast.

So, if you’d like help in setting up a new group, or support for an existing group, why not give us a ring at the office on 01454 868570.  We are happy to meet with people outside normal office hours.

 

Our members can also benefit from low cost office services, such as photocopying, laminating, comb-binding etc and we have several software packages such as Funder Finder that we can help you use to track down organisations that may fund your group.

 

Finally, if we don’t have the answers we normally know someone that does, we look forward to you contacting us.