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the TRUST team
The
Trust for Developing Communities
was formed in 2000, with the intention of working alongside local people
and voluntary
and statutory organisations to expand access to community development
training, work and support across Brighton & Hove.
Managed by Barry
Hulyer, who has been largely responsible for development and delivery of
the WICO (Working In Community Organisations) Training Course, the Trust
has a board of Trustees drawn from a variety of sectors with
a common interest in community development.
Gill Sweeting provides administrative
support for the Trust, and in July 2003 we were joined by Liv Singh,
Community Buildings Development Worker and Linda Saltwell, Community
Development Worker (CDW),
both working across the City. As
a result of Trust work undertaken in disadvantaged areas, Neighbourhood
Renewal funding was secured recently for three new workers: Tom Warder,
Queens Park/Craven Vale CDW, Catherine Mitchell,
Bevendean CDW and Darren Calder, Millwood Community Centre Manager - Catherine
and Darren starting in September.
The Trust employs a group of very experienced and skillful workers, and
is therefore in a position to assist various community groups and service
deliverers with complex and intensive research work to aid the development
of communities and the development of more relevant services to those
communities.
research
Commissioned
by the 2020 Community Partnership (LSP), Barry Hulyer, Joanna Martindale (consultant) and
Liv Singh spent the early part of this year working on an audit of
community infrastructure in deprived areas.
In each of the neighbourhood renewal
areas we identified and
updated information on
the presence of 6 key indicators of the community’s capacity to engage
in regeneration. This report is now available.
the TRUST partnerships
The Trust values partnerships very highly.
Our Chairperson is elected as a CVSF
representative on the 20:20 Community Partnership (LSP) and
Trust workers are involved in partnerships as appropriate, for example
the Workers Infrastructure Network
(WIN).
The Trust’s manager is a partner in the:
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ALTogether
Programme Steering Group – developing ‘Action Learning’ for community members/professionals
in the delivery of Neighbourhood Renewal
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Foundation
Degree in Community Development Curriculum Group – chairing the ‘Work Based Learning ‘
sub-group
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Area
investment Framework Partnership
as elected representative from the community and voluntary sector and
chair of the ‘Community Capacity Building’ sub group
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Community
& Voluntary Sector Learning Consortium – currently delivering ESF and LSC Co-Finance
Community Development Training
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community and voluntary sector’s Infrastructure
Strategy Group – looking at the future of voluntary sector
infrastructure strategy across the city
work with other infrastructure partners to investigate
the possibility of a new home for organisations
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