London regeneration conference - March 23rd

Tue Mar 15 22:51:58 GMT 2005

Hello everybody

I'm sending these conference details around in the hope that you might be 
able to attend and forward the details to anybody you know who would have 
an interest.

Thanks

Glenn Jenkins

ITS TIME TO SWIM AGAINST THE TIDE
All too often regeneration money flows into an area and then ebbs out 
again.  This half-day conference explores how to make regeneration funding 
stick by using the Organisation Workshop to release the economic potential 
of communities.

 From the Conventional to the Inspirational
Wednesday 23 March 2005
10am to 2pm
Friends House
173 Euston Road
London

IF WE BUY A FISH, THEN WELL EAT FOR ONE DAY&
BUT IF WE ORGANISE OURSELVES AND LEARN HOW TO FISH - WELL EAT FOREVER.

A damning report, published jointly by the Prime
Minister's Strategy Unit and the OPDM in January of this
year, has now officially established that the regeneration
system is largely failing poor areas. Not much new there
then. An extensive body of research, stretching back
fifteen or more years, has catalogued a long history of
failure of regeneration policy.
Or, if you can't get hold of those reports just talk to the
local communities living in deprived and disadvantaged
areas. They have seen regeneration programmes come
and go and yet make little real difference to the social
and economic fabric of their areas.
Millions of pounds of public investment have flowed into
some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Britain, only to
'leak' out again. Very little appears to have 'stuck'. So the
challenge in regeneration is one of retention -
fundamentally a local economic issue based upon local
ownership and control. How can regeneration funding be
used more effectively to generate wealth and prosperity
for the local community, to grow the local economy, and
to create sustainable income and enterprise opportunities
for local people?
The prevailing ethos of regeneration in the UK seems to
be stuck in a 'provision' culture', which by definition
is unable to genuinely 'enable' or 'empower' local
communities. If regeneration funding is to make a real
and lasting impact it must be directed less at doing things
for, or even with local communities. Instead it must be the
catalyst for encouraging communities to do things for and
by themselves.
In other words it should be fostering, not inhibiting
community enterprise.
Fortunately, in other parts of the world there are various
local development models that are proving to be much
more successful in achieving community self- sufficiency
and long- term sustainability. One such approach, based
on principles first established by Clodomir Santos de
Morais, is called 'Organisation Workshop' or OW
for short.
The OW has an exciting track record of releasing the
entrepreneurial potential of 'excluded' and 'hard- to- reach'
citizens, with remarkable success rates in achieving
durability and sustainability. The approach has now been
successfully deployed in developing countries across three
continents - and in each case the OW has proven to
'work', regardless of the different social and economic
contexts, within which it was taking place.
So the challenge is to adapt this unique and wholly
innovative way of adult community and individual learning
and organisation - sometimes also referred to as
'Enterprise Literacy' - to a UK 2005 context.
This half day conference is the national launch of the OW
method in the UK. It is aimed at anyone with an interest
in regeneration, local economic development, and
community development. On Marsh Farm, in Luton,
a feasibility study is already underway.

9.30 Registration
10.00 Introduction by the Conference
Chairperson Glen Jenkins, Marsh Farm
Community Outreach Project.
10.15 SEU presentation 'Jobs and Enterprise in
Deprived Areas' Ben Merrick -
Implementation Team - Jobs & Enterprise -
Social Exclusion Unit
11.00 Local Alchemy (Reinventing local
economies) Bernie Ward, Programme
Director, New Economics Foundation (Co-
author of 'Plugging the Leaks: making the most
of every pound that enters your community').
11.45 Coffee
12.00 Organisation Workshop Method
Dr Raff Carmen, Manchester University
(co- author of 'A Future for the Excluded').
Ivan and Isabel Labra,
Gavin Andersson
1.00 Lunch and networking opportunity
2.00 Close.

Glen Jenkins was a founder member of the
Exodus Collective. For four years, he served as
a community director on the Marsh Farm
Community Development Trust. He is the Chair
of the Marsh Farm Community Outreach Project.
Dr Raff Carmen was for 17 years a senior
lecturer in adult education and community based
development at Manchester University. He is the
author of 'Autonomous Development' (ZED 1996)
and the co- editor of 'A Future for the Excluded'
(ZED 2000).
Isabel and Ivan Labra are educational and
social psychologists. They have directed more
than 60 Organisation Workshops in South Africa.
Both have worked for the FAO, and Isabel served
as the Norwegian People's Aid Resident
Representative to Mozambique from 2000- 2004.
Gavin Andersson was until recently the CEO
of the Leadership Network for South Africa.
Before then, he was Executive Director of the
Development Resource Centre in Johannesburg.
Ben Merrick works in the Social Exclusion Unit,
within the implementation team for jobs and
enterprise in deprived areas.
Bernie Ward is Programme Director of Local
Money Flows at the New Economics Foundation.
She is co- author of 'Plugging the Leaks: making
the most of every pound that enters your community'.

PROGRAMME SPEAKER BIOGS.BOOKING FORM Swimming against the Tide, Wednesday 
23 March 2005, 10am to 2pm, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London
Name of delegate
Position
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Postcode:
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Booking Price
Voluntary/ Community Organisations: £50 (plus £8.75 VAT) = £58.75
Others: £95 (plus £16.63 VAT) = £111.63
Please indicate how you wish to pay:
Enclosed is a cheque for _______________
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Cancellations must be made in writing, no later than 10 days prior to the 
event and will be subject to an administrative charge of
£20+ VAT. There can be no refunds for failure to attend after this time. 
Substitutions can be made at any time. A VAT receipt will be
issued on receipt of payment.
Please return this form together with your remittance to:
Microfish Communications
1b Luke Street
London
EC2A 4PX
Hotline: 020 7729 0601
Email: shabana@ microfish. co. uk
www. microfish. co. uk

Marsh Farm Outreach are a
community enterprise based
in Marsh Farm Estate,
Luton, Bedfordshire

Or contact Shabana on:  020 7729 0601, email: 
<mailto:shabana at microfish.co.uk>shabana at microfish.co.uk

Or book online by <http://www.regen.uk.net/tide/book.asp>clicking here

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