1. Creating the Foundations for Individual & Community-led Change 27 th January 2016 1

2. 2 Context Increasing relative inequality 10.9% cum. real term budget cut 2011/12- 2015/16 Christie Commission Health & Social Care Reform Community Empowerment Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy Harry Burns’ ‘Sense of Coherence’ GCPH’s work on Resilience & the ‘Glasgow Effect’ Ramsden’s ‘Persistent Poverty in Glasgow’ Marmot’s ‘Fair Society Healthy Lives’ Scottish Approach

3. 3 A context that… Increasing relative inequality 10.9% cum. real term budget cut 2011/12- 2015/16 Christie Commission Health & Social Care Reform Community Empowerment Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy Harry Burns’ ‘Sense of Coherence’ GCPH’s work on Resilience & the ‘Glasgow Effect’ Ramsden’s ‘Persistent Poverty in Glasgow’ Marmot’s ‘Fair Society Healthy Lives’ Scottish Approach …Calls for Community Engagement & Citizen Participation …Recognises the importance of social connectivity & aspects of aspiration, confidence, self-esteem & resilience

4. 4 Our ‘theory of everything’

5. Gallatown 42mths Leith 45mths Gorbals 40mths Chancers – local womens group TOTAL ENGAGEMENT @ 30 SEP. 2015 12,036 participants including 758 volunteers Silly Soccer DJ Workshops Community Gardening Gardening Bingo Fruit & Veg Stall Biking 2334 Participants incl. 113 Volunteers Make my Neighbourhood Beautiful Friends of Lorne Primary Cooking Pop-up farm/beach & cafe Big Breakfast Club Soggy Sports Bike club Internet cafe & Community information Creative writing Drumming Guitar Group Culture on Every Corner Athletics Group Arts & Crafts Youth Cafe Community Cafe Community Family events Cooking Women’s Group Community Gardening 1216 Participants incl. 55 Volunteers 1505 Participants incl. 129 Volunteers 1310 Participants incl. 98 Volunteers 80 Participants incl. 8 Volunteers Cinema Archery Gardening Open Cafe Music @ Barn Pop-up Museum Cinema Lunch Club 1664 Participants incl. 115 Volunteers 803 Participants incl. 19 Volunteers Photography Dads group Youth Activities NW Kilmarnock 46mths Litter Picks Befriending Archery 1425 Participants incl. 161 Volunteers Community Gardening Bingo Community information Darts Craft Group Inter-gen Sessions Cinema Self defence Men’s Group Gardening Sewing Group Tea Dances Larkfield + N Motherwell (Both Ended 31/7/14) Saltcoats 12 mths Upcycling Dry Cafe Children & Families Toddler Group Cooking group Possil 44mths Muirhouse 41mths Family swim Bingo Cinema Tenants group 1240 Participants incl. 21 Volunteers Archery Arts Chess Photography Kelly’s Cafe ADHD Group Alloa 44mths Community Football Cinema Street Dance Young Parents ‘Man Up’ Women’s Group Roots & Boots Women’s Football Women’s Circuit Training Bowmar Group 459 Participants incl. 39 Volunteers Youth Drop-in Whitfield 40mths Bingo Dance Community cafe Crafts Community Action Group Walking

6. 10,085 social connections between people that might otherwise not have met 617 volunteering and helping others in their community 155 previously isolated but now engaging 218 attained skills/competency based/qualification/award 120 expressing desire to work 56 employed 84 attained food hygiene qualification 34 reduced alcohol consumption 101 re-engaged with formal decision-making structures Increasing self-efficacy (and resilience?) 34 reduced tobacco consumption 20 reduced drugs consumption 27 reduced some form of daily medication Transformational change for some… 43 secured university/college place/traineeship 6

7. 7 … and increasing community organisation

8. 8 W.R.M – Process is critical “This has been the best year of my life for learning new skills, meeting new friends, and people believing in me.” Comprehensible Manageable Worthwhile WELL BEING +

9. 9 W.R.M - Empowered worker with the ‘right stuff’ Empowered through strong asset-based principles and a way of working which:  Starts by asking what’s good  Is not about enforcing external agendas  Gives significant autonomy to develop and ‘flex’ approach in-line with the local context  Provides flexible funding so ideas can be turned quickly into action  Encourages a culture of working round personal and institutional barriers to change. Creative Mediator Risk taker (measured!) Resourceful High emotional intelligence Brave Really cares Energetic Perseveres Sees best in people Active learner, but reflective

10. When it comes down to it 10 CONNECTING PEOPLE BUILDING PEOPLE’S CAPACITY TO HELP THEMSELVES & EACH OTHER EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO TAKE CONTROL