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Coventry Partnership: Roger Lewis announced as new Chair of The Coventry Partnership

Roger Lewis is the Director and Company Secretary of Peugeot Citroen group in Coventry and has worked in the motor industry for 15 years from 1982.

He said "I see my year as Chair of the Coventry Partnership as an opportunity to harness the tremendous enthusiasm for Coventry which exists within the varied membership of the Partnership. As a theme I am particularly keen to focus on young people (15-20) at the key age when choices and opportunities are opening up for them, to make sure that they are best equipped to lead Coventry forward in years to come.

All in all, I want Coventry to be different to every other comparable city, and to be best positioned to take advantage of future opportunities for growth and increased prosperity in a vastly different economic and environmental climate" 

Roger has also put together a glossary of Partnership terms: click here to view the glossary

Coventry Partnership: Communications support

Just a reminder that the Coventry Partnership has its own Communications Officer, Tim Coleman.

If you need support with any communications for campaigns, designing websites, use of logos, posters etc please contact the Communications Officer who will be able to support and advise you.

There is also a Media and Branding Protocol in place for the Partnership, which gives guidelines in the use of the brand. click here to view the protocol. 

Coventry Partnership: New PowerPoint template

A new Coventry Partnership PowerPoint template has now been produce to coincide with the new look of the website.

Click here to upload the template.

 

Coventry Partnership: Inform, Consult and Involve draft Framework Consultation

A framework to steer the way that the Coventry Partnership informs, consults and involves local people in decision making has been jointly developed by a wide range of partners. The draft framework sets out the principles which the partnership will adhere to when informing, consulting and involving local people and includes a checklist of things to consider when conducting activities.

External funding has been secured to support training and development of communications and consultation practitioners and to enhance the partnership's communications mechanisms, which will help with implementing the framework.

Partner organisations and partnership groups are encouraged to read the draft framework and provide comments on it to help inform the final version.

To view the Framework, please visit Coventry Partnership Inform, Consult and Involve draft framework.

To share comments on the draft framework from your organisation or partnership group as a whole, please visit: www.coventry.gov.uk/pshipiciconsultation by 31 August 2010. 

Coventry Partnership: Information sharing to help make city safer

Coventry will be an even safer place in which to live, work and visit following an agreement between leading public sector organisations to share information.

Chief executives and chief officers of Coventry's biggest public, voluntary, community and business sectors came together to sign up to the Coventry Information Sharing Protocol.

The protocol helps services such as education, the police, social services and health to share relevant information, making sure that our citizens get the right level of support at the right time, and in the way that they need it.

The protocol sets out the principles and standards that organisations will adopt when they collect, store and disclose information about members of the public and provides a legal framework that enables data sharing.

The protocol is available for use by any partner agency and can be downloaded from www.coventrypartnership.com/CISP 

Community Safety Partnership: Not in My City YouTube video

A new YouTube video has been produced to compliment the Not in My City anti-violence campaign currently running across Coventry.
The new campaign brings together the work of a number of agencies delivering on-the-ground visible activity to tackle the problem of violence together with a clear message that if you are violent in this City don't be surprised if:-
• You are arrested.
• You are referred and required to receive alcohol treatment, drug treatment or anger management.
• Your housing provider writes to you to inform you that your behaviour is in breach of your tenancy conditions.
• You receive contact from social care services and particularly child care services if you have children.
• You are prevented from going to certain places in the city or from doing certain things.
• Your local neighbourhood policing team and partner agencies regularly monitor your behaviour.

The YouTube video can be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi4KlzlhFtY

Community Safety Partnership: launch of new Hate Crime campaign

A new campaign to tackle Hate Crime has been launched targeting young people in particular with a text reporting facility.

With a host of well-known faces and supporters from across the city featured on a range of posters, postcards and publicity materials, it's hoped the campaign will act as both a deterrent to incidents of Hate Crime and an encouragement to those who find themselves a victim to report at one of the now established Hate Crime reporting centres across the city or via the new text reporting line.

The campaign, entitled "Coventry is saying no to Hate Crime- do not suffer in silence" was funded by the Department for Education -Improving Support for Young Victims of Crime fund. It sits alongside the overall anti-violence campaign running across Coventry- Not in My City.

For more information contact:

Alison Quigley, Hate Crime Reduction Coordinator on
024 7683 2118, E-mail: alison.quigley@coventry.gov.uk  

Community Safety Partnership: Alcohol Awareness

With social marketing the new communications trend, particularly around alcohol and how we can influence behaviour and perceptions the Community Safety Team have embarked on a project to try and understand how people in Coventry think and feel about alcohol.

In an attempt to target high-risk drinkers in the city, various focus groups have been established to get people talking about alcohol. The results have been interesting and once analysed will help to structure future alcohol campaigns.

A drinking experiment has also been carried out with the help of Mercia FM. Andy Goulding the breakfast presenter drank throughout his shift to show listeners the effects it had on him mentally and physically. To view the experiment
visit www.mercia.co.uk.

For more information please contact Emma Davies on 024 7683 2422.

Cultural Partnership: Olympic football's coming home

Coventry has been chosen to be the Midlands venue for 2012 London Olympics football - making us an official host city for the 2012 London Olympics.

The announcement – which has been made by Olympics organisers at the Ricoh - comes after months of behind the scenes work and lobbying from key players across the city, including The Coventry Partnership, the Ricoh Arena and members of the Coventry and Warwickshire 2012 Partnership which was formed to promote the benefits of bringing elements of the Olympic Games to the region.

We beat five other Midlands towns and cities that wanted to host football matches for the Olympics, thanks to the quality of our facilities and the training facilities at Warwick University.

Cultural Partnership: Directors Club at Belgrade Theatre

The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry has brought together members of the local business community with an exclusive event for its Directors Club held in the award winning restaurant Petit Gourmand at the Belgrade.

Established in 2001, the Directors Club is the Belgrade Theatre’s business membership scheme, which currently boasts nearly 30 members including the Coventry Telegraph, Coventry Building Society, HSBC, Yorkshire Bank, Belgrade Plaza, Advent Communications, Alsters Kelley Solicitors and Shortland Horne Estate Agents.

As it nears its third birthday the Directors Club continues to grow and the latest members event provided the perfect opportunity to welcome newest members Fusion Contact Services Centre to the fold. In addition to this the event enabled members to network and develop relationships with other local businesses and discuss ways they can support each other by creating local partnerships, which is crucial in the current economic climate.

The purpose of the Directors Club is to strengthen the relationship between the theatre and the local and regional business communities, bringing businesses together in partnership with the theatre. In turn, Directors Club members can use their membership to entertain clients, target new markets, incentivise staff and demonstrate their commitment to the local community.

For further information or if you would like to become a member of the Directors Club please call David Jane, Head of Development on 024 7684 6722 or email djane@belgrade.co.uk

Transport Theme Group: Smarter Travel Personalised Travel Planning project

The Smarter Travel Coventry Personalised Travel Planning project launched on the 26 June at Jubilee Crescent is well underway.

To date, the team of locally recruited Travel Advisors, wearing their distinctive orange branded Smarter Travel Coventry uniform and holding a photo identification card, have encouraged 1,200 households to take part in the project. Each participating household has received a tailored pack of travel information relevant to their needs. Many of these packs have included the Jubilee Crescent Community Guide, which promotes local services in the area.

A recent survey of residents who had spoken with a Travel Advisor highlighted that 90% had found the discussion useful and 94% had felt that the level of customer service and quality of information was good or very good. Further monitoring work will be undertaken to establish the impacts of the project on travel patterns.

For more information about Smarter Travel Coventry, please call 024 7683 1698 email smarter.travel@coventry.gov.uk 

Transport Theme Group: Walkit.com

Walkit.com is an online walking journey planner which enables users to easily produce a tailored route map between any two locations in Coventry. The website will also display your journey time, calorie burn, step count and carbon saving for any walking journey in the City. It’s quick, free, healthy and green.

Walkit is now available for the Coventry area and can be accessed at www.walkit.com/coventry.

The City Council encourages all organisations in the City to use and promote the service, particularly to people visiting the City for the first time to help them plan their journey more easily.

For more information please contact Planning and Strategic Transportation on 024 7683 2169.

Transport Theme Group: Design and Technology Competition & Exhibition

In June, Coventry Transport Museum worked in partnership with Elm Bank – Education & Learning Services and the five Rotary Clubs in Coventry to produce the Design and Technology Exhibition and Awards 2010.

Pupils from 16 secondary schools and one special school in Coventry displayed 241 projects and demonstrated their inventions. This event took place between 16 and 23 June and was a great success. It acted as a showcase for young students in Coventry to show off their innovative ideas in the following categories: GCSE Food Technology; GCSE Textile Technology; GCSE Graphic Products; GCSE Resistant Materials; GCSE Product Design, GCSE Electronics, Engineering Projects and Construction Projects and A level.

A host of local, national and international companies sponsored the awards and some of them also offered half day visits as part of the prize. These included Broadweavers & Clothiers Company, Coventry University, Arup Associates, NP Aerospace, DENSO Sales UK Ltd, Hilton Hotel, Midland Group Training Services, Jaguar Land Rover, Worix Ltd, Parenthesis Ltd, AGCO Corporation, Institution of Engineering and Technology, Henley College and City College Coventry.

Environment Theme Group: Energy Saving Trust Green Communities support

Community groups, villages and neighbourhoods keen to reduce their carbon footprint are being offered free expertise and support by the Energy Saving Trust West Midlands advice centre.

The Green Communities programme was set up nationally by the government funded Energy Saving Trust to help residents work together to reduce CO2 emissions – and even generate their own electricity through renewable sources.

The centre is already supporting a number of such communities across the region – and is looking to extend its services to help more groups. These could be villages, estates or community organisations.

It is offering 30 days free expertise over a year and can help out on projects such as improving the energy efficiency of a community building, encouraging individual householders to install insulation or installing electricity generating technology to power the whole neighbourhood – and generate an income into the bargain.

One of its green communities was recently presented with a national Low Carbon award from a charity of which the Prince of Wales is president.

Projects carried out to date include offering motorists free smarter driving lessons to reduce their petrol bills by around £250 a year, giving householders free real time display monitors worth nearly £25 which measure precisely how much energy each appliance uses, offering ‘energy doctor’ visits and advising on suitability for solar heating for hot water.

Anyone interested should contact the Energy Saving Trust West Midlands advice centre on 0800 512 012, email edward.brown@est-westmidlands.org.uk or visit www.energysavingtrust.org.uk. 

Environment Theme Group: Care 4 Your Area

A new campaign designed to keep the streets clean and safe in Coventry is being piloted from tomorrow in the Paradise area of the city.

"Care 4 Your Area" will combine a process of assistance to residents with education to ensure that streets are easy to clean, kept free of litter, fly-tipping and wheelie bins in an attempt to bring back into use alleyways which are currently blocked.

Side waste is often ripped open by animals creating more litter. Evidence shows that an untidy environment makes the dropping of litter more likely. Wheelie bins left on the street have been subject to arson attacks in the past. In some cases they have been pushed against doors and set alight.

For more information contact: Joy Adams, Principal Environmental Health Officer, Coventry City Council on
024 7683 1806, 07985 183473

 

Equalities and Community Cohesion Group: The Big Lunch 2010

13 Big Lunches took place on Sunday 18th July across Coventry, from a simple lunch in the garden to a big community event.

The Big Lunch was a chance for different generations and backgrounds to hear each other out and share stories, skills and interests.

A big park lunch was lined up for Gosford Park and also, with the help of Whitefriars, in places like Willenhall and Foleshill. There were a total of 13 Big Lunches organised across the city. You can check out the locations at www.thebiglunch.com/map/find-a-big-lunch.php


These included: Gosford Park Primary School, FolesHillfields Healthy Summer, Godiva Mela - Edgewick Park, Foleshill (where the Lord Mayor attended).

The Big Lunch is led by the Eden Project with the support of a family of partners, The Big Lottery Fund, MasterCard, EDF Energy and the Department of Communities and Local Government who all want to break down barriers and build bridges within neighbourhoods.

Sue Bent, Director, Coventry Law Centre and Chair of the Equalities and Cohesion Thematic Group of the Coventry partnership said, “The big Lunches which took place across Coventry yesterday really built on the success last year. This year the feedback we've had so far has been really positive. The photos from across the city really bring to life the fun that people were having."  

Equalities and Community Cohesion Group: The first Coventry Community Cohesion Awards

Fourteen projects from across the private, public, voluntary, community and youth sectors in Coventry were shortlisted for the city's first Community Cohesion Awards, which took place on Wednesday 21 July at St. Mary's Guildhall.

The awards, run by the Equalities and Communities Theme Group of The Coventry Partnership together with Coventry Ethnic Minorities Action Partnership (CEMAP), were presented by the Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr Keiran Mulhall.

Sue Bent, Director of Coventry law Centre and Chair of the Equalities and Communities Theme Group said, "Everyone deserves to live in a strong community, where they feel safe, welcomed, where people get along with each other, where no-one feels excluded and where everyone has the chance to play a full part in local life. The Coventry Community Cohesion Awards have recognised the commitment made by many organisations and groups in the city to ensure that Coventry continues to be such a cohesive city.

For details of the winners, go to www.coventrypartnership.com/Cohesionawards

Equalities and Community Cohesion Group: Haggard Community Centre

The Haggard Community Centre, Remembrance Road, Willenhall, has recently been granted a 25 year lease by the Council. After a great deal of planning and negotiation the lease came into effect during July.

After months of hard work by both the City Council and the Haggard's management committee, including internal decoration and also some refurbishment, the centre is becoming a vibrant hub of activity in Willenhall.

If you have not been over to see the venue, why not pop in for a cuppa one day in their brand new café, book the games area or even hire out a room (or hall) for a meeting? They have a multitude of leisure activities and creative sessions going on that may be of interest to you.

For information about what's available, phone the centre direct on 024 7630 3947. 

Health and Well-being: Sporting Futures Summer Timetable

Sporting Futures summer activities timetable is now available. To view the timetable visit summer activities.

For more details please contact the Sporting Futures team on 024 7678 5198. 

Health and Well-being: PAYP Summer Activities

The Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP) programme provides diversionary and targeted activities for young people aged 18-19 years.

Voluntary and statuary organisations deliver these programmes in priority neighbourhoods, with the overall aim of reducing youth crime and antisocial behaviour.

Sharon Devine PAYP Operations Manager said 'We have Positive Activities taking place all over Coventry during the summer holidays to ensure young people have something fun to get involved in. There are lots of activities, from arts, dance, film and music programmes, various sports and trips available.

We want to ensure young people have something positive to do with their time by providing some great activities they can access over the school holidays."

To view the programme visit PAYP Summer Activities.

 

Economy, learning, skills and employment: Small Businesses recognised by local MPs

On Friday 16 July local MPs and the local authorities in Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull came together with small businesses to celebrate and build on the partnerships that have been formed.

At the Federation of Small Businesses ‘Small Business Lunch’ Lorely Burt MP for Solihull, Jeremy Wright MP for Kenilworth and Southam, Mark Pawsey MP for Rugby, Chris White MP for Warwick and Leamington, Dan Byles MP for North Warwickshire and Marcus Jones MP for Nuneaton joined representatives from the local authorities across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull, to share best practice in how best to support small businesses.

The FSB launched the ‘Small Business Engagement Accord’ in April 2009 to encourage a more productive dialogue with local businesses. It brings together various aspects of consultation, as well as specific proposals from the FSB designed to improve the level of participation by businesses in local democracy.

At the event the MPs also gave their commitment to Keep Trade Local by becoming ambassadors to the FSB campaign that highlights the importance of small shops, post offices and pubs to the local community. By signing up as an ambassadors they have pledged to:

- Forever remember that small businesses are at the heart of communities
- Support small businesses in their constituency
- Bring the small business voice to Parliament

For more information please contact FSB on 024 76403 895.

Economy, learning, skills and employment: R U Working?

The 'R U Working?' event, funded and hosted by Coventry NDC, was aimed at young unemployed people (aged 16-24) living locally and the wider north-east Coventry looking for work.

The unique event brought together a number of partners including Jobcentre Plus, Coventry City Council, The Workshop, Connexions, Henley College and Moat House Works to provide information and advice.

All young people who attended were given support around employment and training opportunities, alongside essential professional information and advice. There was also information on sexual health with representation by Clinic in a Box.

The event also gave anyone who was interested in a career in construction the chance to take part in training programme.

If you would like more information about employment support for young people please contact Louis at the NDC office on 0247662 2964. If you are interested in a career in construction contact Julie Venn-Morton from Coventry City Council on 024 7681 5240 or visit The Workshop in Riley Square.

Economy, learning, skills and employment: Success for local business

Three years ago, a Coventry-based company made its first tentative steps into the video production market and now, Pro-Mo Media are growing from strength to strength, having just expanded into their new premises in Coventry city centre and taking on new staff.

Pro-Mo Media was set up by three Coventry University graduates Brad Powell, Spencer James and Paul Kendall and to celebrate their third birthday they are offering a free high end promotional film worth over £2000 to a lucky individual or business.

Brad Powell said “After the success we have had through this tricky time we wanted to share our good fortune by putting up for grabs one of our popular film packages in the hope that our product will greatly improve the winners marketing and image, contributing to their own growth.

I hope other businesses that are starting out for the first time are encouraged by our story. We continue to develop a great deal within our industry and are more than happy to talk to anyone about the kind of work we do and how we can help.”

To enter for the chance to win a free promotional film worth £2000, simply enter online at Pro-Mo Media’s website at www.pro-mo.tv.

CYPSP: Children & Young People's plan 2010-11

The Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership have published the latest version of the Children & Young People's plan for 2010-11. The plan sets out how, as a Children & Young People's Strategic Partnership, it is going to continue to improve outcomes for children, young people and families in Coventry.  

The plan is divided into sections looking at:
• Priorities and objectives for the coming year
• How the Partnership is going to achieve these goals
• How it has consulted on the plans
• A detailed strategic assessment of what has been achieved in the last year
• A detailed action plan for the coming year

The plan can be found here Coventry's 2010 Children & Young People's Plan. 

There are no plans to publish hardcopy versions to save on resources. For more information contact James Lawrence at james.lawrence@coventry.gov.uk or call 024 7683 4337.

Housing Theme Group: Spirit Quarters redevelopment site

Work started on the Spirit Quarters redevelopment site last month (Wood End, Henley Green, Manor Farm and Deedmore) and was marked by a visit from Sir Bob Kerslake of the Homes & Communities Agency, who said “This scheme is a fantastic example of community regeneration with local people heavily involved in steering how their area is developed. I have met a lot of residents today who have been involved in this scheme for many years and the HCA is delighted to have enabled it to reach this important stage by investing in the first 154 new homes.


“When you look at the impressive community infrastructure here in the new neighbourhood and leisure centre, health centre, primary schools and the broad spectrum school currently being built by the HCA, you get a real sense of the potential this area has in the future.”

For further information about the Spirit Quarters redevelopment, contact Lynn Wassell at Whitefriars on
024 7676 7145.

Housing Theme Group: Whitefriars offer families lifeline to keep their homes

Families in Coventry who need support so they don’t face losing their home are being given extra help thanks to Whitefriars Housing Group.

Over the past three and half years Whitefriars Housing Group has helped 22 families keep their homes by referring them to the Coventry Family Intervention Project (FIP) which works in partnership with Whitefriars to provide intensive support to families.

Now, thanks to joint funding between Whitefriars Housing Group, various Government departments and the housing regulator the Tenants Service Authority through the FIP Housing Challenge Fund, Whitefriars will employ two FIP key workers to support families leading chaotic or dysfunctional lifestyles, who want to change their behaviour to avoid losing their home. The funding will help an extra nine families over the next 12 months.

One Whitefriars tenant who has been helped by FIP is Georgina Morris, from Radford. The 41-year-old mother of four was on the verge of losing her family’s home in April 2008 after a catalogue of anti-social behaviour. Georgina had experienced six years of domestic abuse from the age of 17, and was depressed and dependent on drinking alcohol.

Georgina said "When I first met Mandy from FIP I was scared but she spoke to me like I was human and listened to me. If it wasn’t for FIP I would be homeless, it is not there to make your life a misery, it is there to help"

If you would like to find out more about the Family Intervention Project call Whitefriars specialist anti social behaviour team on 024 7649 6747

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