Annex 1
CASE STUDIES
THE COAL
INDUSTRY SOCIAL
WELFARE ORGANISATION
(CISWO)—BASED IN
ROTHERHAM WHICH
IS A
FAIR SHARE
AREA
Region: Strategic grants
Amount: £911,398
Date:03/04/2002
Project summary:
The Coalfields Industry Social Welfare Organisation
(CISWO) was set up in 1991 as a successor to the Miners Welfare
Fund which originated in 1920. Its brief includes; the welfare
of people connected with the mining industry; supporting miners
welfare charities and community welfare and development. Its work
is now directed at former mining areas in general, and not solely
at those people connected with the mining industry. This three-year
development project seeks to continue the funding for seven Community
Development Officers. A major part of the their brief is to establish
a network of One Stop Shops that will co-ordinate the delivery
of services and information in former mining communities.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FUND PROGRAMME:
FAIR SHARE:
TRANSFORMING YOUR
SPACE
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside
Amount: £2.2 million
Project summary:
Doncaster MBC's strategic application under
this programme contained a variety of objectives to regenerate
urban Doncaster, its rural hinterland and the coalfields communities
surrounding it, focusing on disadvantaged communities within these
areas. The proposal links into regional strategies, including
that being developed by the Doncaster Strategic Partnership, the
Regional Development Agency, the Rural Development Area Plan,
Objective 1 and SRB 6. Local community forums across the area
offer a means of improving consultation between statutory agencies
and the local community.
As well as funding some new initiatives, fair
share: transforming your space funding will provide a source of
match funding for some existing regeneration initiatives. The
programme will also work alongside projects funded by Sport England
and Community Fund fair share. This can be seen particularly at
Miner's Welfares, which are developing community and recreational
facilities and opening up access to the wider community
WHEATLEY HILL
COMMUNITY REGENERATION
PARTNERSHIP
Region: North East
Amount: £37,036
Date: 03/07/2002
Project summary:
This bid will provide administrative support
for an active volunteer-led community partnership made up of several
groups working in Wheatley Hill. Members include the mothers'
club, community centre, local history club, football club, churches
and the youth theatre group. It aims to regenerate the area and
combat the continuing demise of the village following the collapse
of the coal industry.
DIAL MANSFIELD
AND DISTRICT
Region: East Midlands
Amount: £235,413
Date: 07/01/2003
Project summary:
Dial Mansfield provides telephone and office
based information and advice for disabled people. Dial also provides
disability rights information, "access" information,
and an advocacy/representation service.
The project will enable Dial Mansfield to target
their services (see above) at rural areas/former coalfield communities.
A Rural Outreach Supervisor will map out target areas, develop
a village pack, train volunteer advisors (on disability issues),
run nine outreach sessions (in the target areas) and set-up a
session for students at Portland college (a training college for
disabled people). The Communications and Information Officer will
develop publications and provide training for staff and volunteers.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FUND FAIR
SHARE TRUST
Wansbeck MBC
Region: North East
Amount: £818,000 (over 10 years)
In Wansbeck, the local strategic partnership
identified the East Ashington neighbourhood for targeting under
the fair share programme. East Ashington is a neighbourhood of
15,000 people and a former coalfield area. The local agency, Community
Foundation for Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, has established
a local panel who will work to establish neigbourhood priorities
and define criteria for projects to be funded. The panel consists
of representatives from Sure Start Ashington, Community Network,
the local strategic partnership, the North Care Trust, Wansbeck
CVS and the district council, as well as five community representatives
and the chair, who is from the local agency.
The panel's breadth of knowledge, experience
and network of contacts will ensure that the Fair Share Trust
can support a programme which meets local priorities, but also
fits strategically with other funding streams.
Fair Share funding is likely to be available
to projects by the beginning of the financial year 2004-05.
SOUTH EAST
SHEFFIELD CITIZENS
ADVICE BUREAU
Region: Yorkshire & Humber
Amount: £235,825
Date: 04/03/2003
Project summary:
The project will allow an existing outreach
and home visiting advice service, previously funded by the Coalfields
Regeneration Trust and a Neighbourhood Renewal grant, to continue.
One-to-one work will help ensure that elderly people, the long-term
sick and disabled people are receiving all the benefits and services
to which they are entitled. Specifically, it will continue the
work of well-established outreach sessions in Woodhouse and Beighton
and a recently established session in Scowerdons Farm. It will
also mount campaigns to raise awareness of the benefits that are
available to these groups of people, with the aim of increasing
take up.
ASHWOOD COMMUNITY
RESOURCE (BASED
IN FAIR
SHARE AREA)
Region: East Midlands
Amount: £200,000
Date: 03/09/2002
Project summary:
The purchase and refurbishment of the building
will enable the group to run parent/toddler nursery, soft play
and sensory play centre, toy library, after school/homeworking
clubs, creative arts, drop in for young people, breakfast club,
sexual health and pregnancy counselling, debt counselling, holiday
club, parenting skills, mentoring programmes, cyber cafe, training
centre, general community centre and garden
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