NRCCE to deliver £187,000 regional neighbourhoods programme

The Neighbourhood Resource Centre for Central England (NRCCE) has begun work to roll-out a £187,000 programme to help residents in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the Midlands.

Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands has commissioned the NRCCE, based in Darlaston, to provide a ‘neighbourhoods’ support programme to 14 West Midlands Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs).

The programme will help the Local Authority Partnerships come up with and put into action approaches that will help them meet improvement targets in deprived neighbourhoods.

The LSPs will be able to choose from a number of tailored projects as part of the programme including a training scheme to help the long-term unemployed.

Natalie Jones, NRCCE Manager, said: “Following our comprehensive review of neighbourhood working practices across the region, we were able to identify some generic support needs which we will address through the development of this programme.

“This programme provides an exciting opportunity to work directly with residents and communities to help build capacity and social capital at a localised level as we move into a new era of neighbourhood renewal.

“We also believe that our work will help to maintain the longer term engagement of both residents and services in areas to come together and co-design the neighbourhood services of the future.”