Community Development Team
Our Community Development Team offers a FREE service to all local voluntary and community groups in the borough of Eastleigh, to provide information, advice and guidance around the complexities of running a local group or charity.
What we do:
- Help set up new groups
- Support groups in creating and using a constitution and polices
- Source funding for groups
- Advise on funding applications
- Support trustees and committees
- Develop action plans with groups
- Provide information about legislation and legal requirements
- Help groups voice their needs to statutory organisations
- Provide a range of training and information seminars for local groups
The Community Development Team is also keen to work together with statutory and public bodies to provide cohesive community development across the Borough of Eastleigh.
We are currently involved in a project called Community Innovations, which is designed to link social workers, district nurses and community development workers to provide support for older people before they need adult service care packages. It is a partnership between the county council, health service, district councils and the voluntary sector. The project is for people over 65 who are just beginning to find things more difficult than before, such as housework, social activities, cooking and gardening, but who currently do not meet the criteria for Adult Services Department support.
The Eastleigh Southern Parishes Community Innovations Team, one of the five pilot teams in Hampshire, comprises a social worker, two community nurses, a care manager, two support workers and our own Lesley Rattue, a community development worker with One Community.
Lesley engages with community groups and voluntary organisations within the area. Her role is to encourage them and offer guidance when help is needed with funding, governance and training issues. Her role also involves starting up new services where a need has been identified. For further information please contact Lesley Rattue, Innovations Project telephone 023 8090 2400. lrattue@1community.org.uk
If you want any support from the team or want to know more, please contact the Community Development Team on 023 8090 2400 or email info@1community.org.uk