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BREAKING NEWS: Roaring Success for Council and Community Cooperative Action.

With latest reports showing the impact of innovative work in one area of the region, RE:generate is proud to have played a key part alongside local Councillors and Strategic Partners in helping to bring a fresh outlook to relationships between residents and public servants in Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES).

18 months ago the LSP and ward councillors in BaNES started to look for alternative solutions to some deep seated problems facing residents and public services in a particular area. They invited RE:generate to attempt to engage with residents and help them to resolve some of the difficulties they were dealing with.

RE:generate facilitated a process of building trust, respect and networked relationships that encouraged the community to work together to find solutions and organise how to deliver the change they needed to achieve their ambitions.

The recently published report highlights the positive impact of the work and the changes achieved by residents working together with their councillors' support.

Crime and fly tipping has been signficantly reduced - with local papers reporting that ov er £1 million has been saved in the last year! Volunteering has increased dramatically and 8 social enterprises have been developed including environmental enterprises dealing with litter and bulky items, garden services and young people's music, theatre and the arts initiatives. This enterprising community has to date received new investment of over £10000 and they are developing confidence and skills to deliver sustainable change.

A real personal and community success has been achieved by a young man who was challenged and encouraged to develop his artistic talent. He volunteered to support local community enterprises and began working with RE:generate and the residents team and meeting with local Councillors Dine Romero and Paul Crossley. This process took him into a public art exhibition that has showcased his talents, is raising funds for local community projects and charities, and most importantly is showing his peers how "you can turn yourself around" and still be "cool" as you do something positive and creative with your life.

RE:generate is an enterprising social action charity working all over the UK and internationally. We deliver a dynamic and empowering process designed to relieve poverty by encouraging local people to:

take action and participate in public life
develop local and enterprising solutions to problems
wake up to potential to make change happen in their lives

We link people’s personal growth to local action that impacts on the way communities do business: locally; regionally and nationally.

Annual Report

Download our Annual Report for 2008 / 2009.

Latest Projects

Southwest Bath

RE:generate is currently working in Southwest Bath. Led by Nick Gardham, UK Projects Director, the project is building community capacity and having a significant impact on improving environmental issues, reducing crime and increasing involvment.

To date, over 400 people across the local community have been listened to. Over 20 project ideas have been explored and both young and old are now looking at working together to develop sustainable projects to improve their local area.

Example of success:

Report to Local Strategic Partnership

Deep Clean Keep Clean

See the projects page for more information!

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Latest News

SailTrade

RE:generate believes that successful social entrepreneurs are those that have great visions as well as the drive and determination to succeed. SailTrade is a vision and a concept that is designed to give young people opportunities for apprenticeships and the charity the opportunity to sustain itself. SailTrade is first and foremost a business that is designed to tackle some of the most complex problems in Britain today.

If you are interested in helping to develop this vision read the concept paper and get in touch with us.

RE:educate

The RE:educate School- RE:generate launches new schools concept

DCLG Funding

RE:generate has secured funding from the Department for Communities and Local Government to roll out their Community Animator programme across two additional areas of Bath and North East Somerset.

RE:generate appoints two new Trustees who will be effective from January 1, 2010. Pam Stewart, Chair of Urban Forum and Linda Jack,

The 'Infectious' Academy that was supported by RE:generate and the Community Development Foundation Grass Roots Grants Programme hold another successful show at The Lighthouse in Poole.

RE:generate has built a relationship with leading charity TeachFirst to recruit top graduates and Ambassadors of the TeachFirst programme to deliver RE:generate's work in challenging communities. Nick Gardham, Project Manager, said, 'This is a really exciting relationship that has developed. This work is highly specialised and we are going to work with the best people in this country, the leaders of tomorrow, who will be able to mentor and support Local Authorities, agencies and communties to effect long lasting transformation'.

In a meeting between Lord Alex Carlile QC and Stephen Kearney Lord Carlile reaffirmed his support for the work of RE:generate and was encouraging the RE:generate team to develop strong working relationships with Academies, Universities and Teacher Trainer Providers.

RE:generate to attend Urban Forum Annual Conference with Dr Vince Cable MP.

Dr Anthony Seldon, political author and Master of Wellington College, discusses how we need to build trust in communities to rebuild society. Talking about his latest book "Trust", Anthony says "I support RE:generate's work 100%. Their work is exactly what I am talking about in my book. I am incredibly pleased to have been in touch with them." Read Anthony's views on rebuilding trust in The Independent.

Anthony's book 'Trust: How we lost it and how to get it back' is available from most major high street book retailers.

Nick Gardham (UK Projects Director, RE:generate and TeachFirst Ambassador) talks about his involvement with leading charity TeachFirst and and how he is supporting them to address their mission to address educational disadvantage through the work of RE:educate programme. Read the interview.

Jeanne Socrates sets sail on a Round the World trip to raise awareness of the work of RE:generate.

See TV coverage from London Tonight of Jeanne preparing to set sail here.

Lads lead the way for football goal posts.

Community take the lead and organise clean up

Residents will be inspiration behind community project

Impact in Scotland

While working in Glasgow RE:generate's team had a significant impact leading to the Scottish Government adopting RE:generate's work through CEIS and Community Renewal. Stephen Kearney and Julia Olsen built the structure of the Listening Process delivered by local Community Animators. Bob Mashall who initially had the idea of Full Employment Areas worked with the RE:generate team to enthuse the Scottish Government who later completely adopted the work.

Stephen Kearney, CEO of RE:generate, said,' The impact of the work in Scotland was fantastic but it was just the start. The team we worked with concentrated on just the worklessness agenda and not the broader holistic work of RE:generate so the impact could be far greater'.

Impact in Wales

Julia Olsen, Development Director, founder of Cae Post Recycling has stated that, ‘I am delighted that Mike Membury has received the green hero award. When I founded Cae Post Recycling and worked on the project for many years I did so in the knowledge that it would be good for Wales from an environmental point of view and it would also provide opportunities for people with learning disabilities to make their way in life. My congratulations go to Mike Membury. I am pleased that the project is continuing to be a success’.

'RE:generate's Listening Matters process is a crucial innovation that takes development and engagement to an extremely effective level. Anyone with a responsibility or interest in engagement can use their process to achieve great results and I would encourage them to do so.

RE:generate enables deprived communities to develop their own sustainable solutions to the problems they face. Working from the ground up, they support community-led actions that tackle the issues that matter to people in ways that make sense. Their approach deals with exclusion and deprivation on a day-to-day basis. The work harnesses the resources and enthusiasm of local people to take action,speak up and achieve fantastic things.'
Toby Blume - Chief Executive Urban Forum

Choreography for Effective Engagement and Transformation

If you are interested in RE:generate's Choreography for Effective Engagement then get in touch to find out more

What's in the box - Outline

What's in the box - Detail

The Choreography - Product List

Listening Matters - A Handy Guide will provide you with a basic introduction to how it works. You can buy the Handy Guide for £10 using the PayPal link below.

Find out more about RE:generate's other products

RE:congregate - Faith in action for church communities

RE:educate - a school's companion for citizenship, leadership and enterprise

RE:form - new accountable politics for Councillors, MPs and Prospective Parliamentary Candidates

Root Solution - Transformation Training - short paper on RE:generate's Transformation for Change programme


	'I met the people who run RE:generate, which creates community activists by going door to door, listening to people’s concerns…. These social enterprises are dealing with some of the most intractable problems facing society, family breakdown, chaotic home environments, persistent unemployment, drugs, crime. Just as business entrepreneurs have helped cure the British economic disease, so social entrepreneurs can help cure Britain’s social malaise…. They are vehicles of innovation' Full text David Cameron - Prime Minister

International News: Zambia

RE:generate Africa Team start to develop business and enterprise school. Building links with the City and Education providers, RE:generate Africa are inviting leading companies to invest in their future. For more information click here

Some of RE:generate's Impact

From co-founding the UK Youth Parliament to training and supporting people to lead sustainable projects in Zambia RE:generate's team has had real success across the UK and internationally. A time line of some of our achievements is listed here

Impact in the North East

After 5 years as Director of RE:generate's work in the North East, Julie Cruddas has taken her experience of delivering the Listening Matters process and applied it to form a pioneer Community Interest Company in North Tyneside. 'The Good Life' in Long Benton is a model project that is delivering change and empowerment locally and across the wider community.

Julia Olsen, Development Director of RE:generate says that, 'Julie and Karen of Justice Prince demonstrate the transformative impact of the listening matters approach. They have put into practice all that they learnt from working with RE:generate and from their training with Ann Hope and Sally Timmel in South Africa which our Trust supported them to attend. They have demonstrated how a systematic approach that builds trust through respectful listening changes lives, empowers people and delivers what people need and want. They have taken the model, applied it in their situation - and delivered great results."