1. Ideas Shop Experiment Perspective Create Listen Challenge
The Challenge:
Build a Peoples Partnership between people who live, work and make decisions in neighbourhoods.
People living in a neighbourhood
A Peoples Partnership made up of ‘System’ people and people living and working in a neighbourhood. Shared power, collaborative work and place-based change
People working in a community and making decisions in a neighbourhood
Experiment
Perspective
Ideas Shop
Supercharged Ideas created and led by communities to tackle local issues, supported by public services and systems
System Challenges and a commitment to coproduction
Create Listen
Action demonstrating place-based, person and community centred approaches in neighbourhoods
Community Priorities and local knowledge
Challenge
Collaboration

2. Connecting to Wider Strategy
The One Rochdale Health & Care -Our Neighbourhood Partnership Approach, says we will:
• Ensure that neighbourhood health and wellbeing initiatives are co-produced and involve local residents.
• Build and further develop community based assets.
• Ensure communities who do not identify with a place feel truly represented.
• Engage with local residents to identify grass roots ideas and priorities for the development of ORHC.
The Strategic Place Board (SPB) is the merging of the Rochdale Health and Wellbeing Board and Rochdale Borough Public Service Reform (PSR) Steering Group and states we will:
Bring together public services, citizens and businesses, utilising the strengths of communities alongside service providers in the shared leadership and strategic development of integrated, collaborative and needs driven public services.
The Peoples Partnership, will be developed through Ideas Shops and feed into the above and wider strategy:
An inclusive and neighbourhood focused approach to coproduction, bringing together ORHC and Neighbourhood staff grassroots organisations and local people to share perspectives, tackle challenges and create solutions together in creative and inspiring ways
Support physical community assets by using, resourcing and involving community venues
Connect public service activity with local knowledge, people and activity.

3. Potential idea topics could be:
A new project or service re-design
A problem that needs community and system perspective
A community story that needs to be shared to inspire others
An opportunity to shape a strategy or plan
A way to allow the public sector to experience the reality of a community
An engagement activity that allows local people to influence what happens where they live
Ways in which visitors might engage with these ideas could be:
A creative activity
A conversation-based activity
An experiment-based activity
A reflection activity
Who will do the work?
6 Collaborator groups will lead this work, with Action Together. Members of these groups will need to commit to approx. 5 days over a 12 month period, beginning in September.
Members will develop ‘idea topics’ to take to the shop and hold and Ideas Shop event, inviting wider community and workforce to visit. At these events visitors will engage with idea topics and as a Collaborator group you will have the opportunity to supercharge ideas with seed funding and resources.
This work is funded and supported by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) Person and Community Centred Approaches team.

4. Excited? Sceptical? Intrigued?
We are looking for expressions of interest from 4 categories:
Local community experts (People who live in the community and VCFSE grassroots leaders)
Creative People (artist, creative thinker or maker living or working in the Rochdale Borough)
Public Sector leaders (neighbourhood lead, PCN lead, a commissioner, strategy lead or portfolio holder -someone who makes decisions that affect the neighbourhood)
Frontline workers from public sector or VCFSE sector organisations
Please your name and why you are interested in being part of this work, along with which of the above categories you would be interested in representing, to:
Kerry Bertram, Strategic Locality Lead, Action Together Rochdale
Deadline for expressions of interest 15th September 2019.
These will be reviewed by the PCCA Informal Steering group with work beginning late September.