Year 2 Study Visit Brochure 2017
Focusing on place, working as one
Central to Neighbourhoods that Work is the understanding that the resilience of communities, the quality of services, and local economic growth potential are fundamentally inter-connected and co-dependent.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Neighbourhoods that work (NTW) is a dynamic partnership between residents, communities and local organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors. It works with a creative and human focus, to drive and facilitate positive change for the people living in the borough of Great Yarmouth. Through our delivery we work to inspire pride and self-belief, enabling people to become more resilient and making communities stronger.
NTW is deliberately different to the short-term 'here's an issue let's fund a solution' project, which is still common across the wider social sector. Instead, NTW focuses on the place and all of the factors affecting the residents that live within it. This requires creative approaches to developing outcomes and prioritising the things that matter to communities.
NTW represents a fundamental shift in the way we approach our work with communities. Whether public sector or voluntary community service, commissioners, businesses, practitioners or a person using a service, we have all come to recognise that all our challenges are inter-related. This leads us to the conclusion that they cannot be tackled in isolation.
Changing Great Yarmouth's stories
Over the last 2 years NTW has been on a journey to develop a much more integrated way of working across the social sector. Our lens for seeing the world has been established from the previous 10+ years of neighbourhood working in Great Yarmouth - ensuring that people's strengths, capabilities and assets are held in focus, rather than continually looking for what is wrong. With NTW delivery partners working in this way 'as one' and collectively working with other partners in Great Yarmouth, we have started to see more sustainable solutions being developed with communities, not only creating wellbeing and stories of positive change but preventing many issues from escalating or even arising in the first place.
