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London Big Local spring event
Saturday 25 April 2015, 10.30am – 3.30pm
10.00 Arrival, hot drinks and breakfast
10.30 Welcome, get to know each other activity and update on Big Local
Debbie Ladds, chief executive, Local Trust
11.20 Workshops – choose which workshops you want to attend
11.30 Problem solving
What are the barriers to
good problem solving?
Join this workshop to learn
some problem solving skills.
Find out how to overcome
the barriers and discover
ways to bring creativity into
finding the best solutions
and making effective
decisions.
The Directory for Social
Change is a training
provider, delivering courses
for Big Local areas.
Mike Phillips, the Directory
for Social Change
Room 1
A locally-led response to
employment and skills
The Mill - a volunteer run
community hub
Social entrepreneurs and
Star People
Untold stories of
volunteering
David Hinton set up
Hastings Works and has a
shop on the high street to
provide a range of services
to help people to find and
develop in work.
The Mill, an ex-council
library building in St James
Street Big Local area
involves 200 volunteers
being supported by two
members of paid staff to
ensure it opens daily as a
public building.
Star People is an additional
source of funding and
support for Big Local. Star
People know their area, the
challenges and opportunities
and have a great idea to
benefit their community. We
call these people social
entrepreneurs. Find out how
UnLtd support a culture of
entrepreneurship within
areas, as well as support
links between Star People,
Big Local partnerships and
other local and regional
partners.
Untold stories of
volunteering looked at why
people volunteer and used
ground breaking creative
methods for gathering
information.
Discover how Hastings
Works did it and what David
learnt along the way. There
will also be the opportunity
to share and discuss how
other Big Local areas are
supporting people to find
work and develop skills.
David Hinton, Hastings
Works
Endsleigh suite
This large group of volunteer
support developed when
local residents decided they
wanted to keep The Mill as a
community asset. Hear their
story.
Alison Griffin and Ingrid
Abreu Scherer, The Mill and
St James Big Local
Elizabeth Fry suite
Rebecca Luff, UnLtd
The Light
The findings are told as
stories and help us think
about volunteering by asking
‘when have we ourselves
volunteered in our own lives
and why?’
Mihaela Kelemen, Keele
University
William Penn suite
12.15 Lunch
1.15
Margolis wheel: the
wisdom of groups
Reviewing your Big
Local plan
Urban Wilderness - a
volunteer run
community garden
Fun and active
consultation
Using creative activities
to empower and get
people involved
Everyone has
knowledge and
experience worth
sharing. The Margolis
Wheel is a problemsolving technique where
people can help each
other to come up with
solutions to the issues
that they face.
How do you know Big
Local is working in your
area? What do you need
to know to plan what you
are going to do next?
Urban Wilderness is a
community garden in
Plaistow, Newham. It is a
council owned piece of
land which has been
loaned to local residents
for the next 10 years.
Canvey’s Big Local has
been speaking to lots of
people in the area in all
sorts of ways. Rather than
hold another formal
meeting, they organised a
successful fitness day
where they talked to
people about Big Local
and local issues.
Sue Moffatt designed
many of the methods used
by the Untold stories of
volunteering research
project.
You’ll also learn how to
use this technique in
your own groups.
Leila Wong, Local Trust
The Light
An opportunity to look at
what a plan review is and
how you might go about
reviewing your Big Local
plan. Find out how Big
Local areas have carried
out their reviews, share
your experiences and
hear about the tools and
help available.
Bountagu Big Local and
Jayne Humm, Local
Trust
Elizabeth Fry suite
Five years ago it was
overgrown and disused.
It’s now a green space
which benefits the whole
community, bringing
people together,
promoting healthy living
and organic food growing.
Hear how they did it.
Jacquie Parker,
Urban Wilderness
Endsleigh suite
The day attracted up to
250 people of all ages and
involved local partners
including health services
and clubs and
organisations offering
displays and
demonstrations.
Sue used creative
techniques to help
volunteers write short
plays, films, poems and
stories which helped those
people to explain why they
chose to volunteer and the
difference volunteering
made in their lives. Sue
will lead us through some
techniques - from
exercises used in theatre
and drama, to storytelling.
Zoe Watson,
Canvey Island Big Local
Room 1
Sue Moffatt,
New Vic Borderlines
William Penn suite
2.15
Reviewing your Big
Local plan
How do you know Big
Local is working in your
area? What do you need
to know to plan what you
are going to do next?
An opportunity to look at
what a plan review is and
how you might go about
reviewing your Big Local
plan. Find out how Big
Local areas have carried
out their reviews, share
your experiences and
hear about the tools and
help available.
Daniel Pearmain,
Local Trust
Elizabeth Fry suite
3.00
Afternoon tea and cakes
3.15
What next?
Tell your story:
recording change in Big
Local areas
An introduction to the
multi-media evaluation of
Big Local areas and an
opportunity to:
tell your Big Local
stories
be involved in making a
short film and podcast
see a film of Big Local
media to date
find out more about Our
Bigger Story, which will
be recording change in
Big Local areas.
Angus McCabe and Paul
Morgans, Third Sector
Research Centre led
team: University of
Birmingham
Endsleigh suite
Debbie Ladds, chief executive, Local Trust
3.30
Close
Effective communication
The community chef
Additional funding
Why is it our
communication works very
well with some people and
not with others?
Newington Big Local’s
community chef is an
exciting initiative for
people in Newington to
learn more about
healthy eating, to
develop new skills and
even to get jobs… not
to mention to make
wonderful food.
Ann and others in South
Bermondsey Big Local are
trying to bring in at least as
much money as they are
paid, to ensure that Big
Local is sustainable and
increase the resources
available.
In this skills workshop find
out how our preferred
communication styles
influence the impact we
have, as well as exploring
some challenges in
listening and getting our
message across.
The Directory for Social
Change is a training
provider, delivering
courses for Big Local
areas.
Mike Phillips, the Directory
for Social Change
Room 1
But how did the idea
come about, and what
does a community chef
do? In this session we’ll
find out, as well as
share our own
experience of the role
of food and cooking in
Big Local.
Steph Todd,
Newington Big Local
The Light
Having been so successful
in securing additional,
match and in-kind support,
South Bermondsey will
share their tips for success
and also how they’ve
learnt from and used their
disappointments positively.
Ann Clayton and Christina
Wheatley, South
Bermondsey Big Local
William Penn suite