1. Portsmouth COUP Networking
Tuesday 11th March 2014
Giles Piercy

2. A genuine Community Budget
• Introduction
• The White City Estate
• Lessons we’ve learned
• Locality Matters’ approach
Page 2

3. Overview of the White City Estate
• 10,000 population
• £50m of public spend pa
• Multiple agencies
looking for similar
outcomes
BBC
Westfield
QPR
HMP Wormwood Scrubs
Page 3

4. White City Enterprise
1. Take on services from statutory bodies that we can
deliver better and cheaper
– E.g. assessment
2. Provide services to Local Business
– E.g. consultation or community engagement
3. Provide services directly to residents
– E.g. direct payments
Page 4

5. What are we doing
• Running the community centre
• Parent Network programme
• £2m of Big Local funds
• In the pipeline…
– Take on new buildings
– Handyman / repairs service
– Adult Social care
• Shared Lives, Domiciliary care, Time Banking
– Review of all council services
– Community Engagement work for private sector
We are really at the start of the journey
Page 5

6. Six key lessons
Page 6

7. 1. You need a standard bearer
• Harry Audley
• Chair of the residents’
association
• Chair of the White City
Neighbourhood Forum
• Extraordinary tireless
advocate for the community
Page 7

8. 2. Get hold of a physical asset
• White City Community Centre
• Formerly being used by tiny
section of community
• Thriving community hub
• Now run at a surplus by the
community
• Opportunity to take on more
community assets
• Community Right to Bid - to
register “assets of community
value”
– QPR’s Loftus Road ?
Page 8

9. 3. “Replace” don’t “Augment” services
• Billions have been poured into communities
• But how many communities actually run their own services?
• Only 1 Parish Council in London!
• Don’t ask “what do you need” ask…
Toxteth 1981 New Labour Big Society
“the public sector collectively spend x million a year providing
this service, do you think we could decide how to spend that
more effectively and deliver it for less?”
Page 9

10. 4. Marketing and branding are key
White City
Neighbourhood
Forum
White City
Residents’
Association
• Council Officers
• Local Residents
• Businesses
Page 10

11. It is very confusing
White City
Neighbourhood
Forum
White City
Residents’
Association
Page 11

12. 5. Work out which services are attractive
• Agree the criteria e.g.
– There is duplication across public service providers
– There is a willing commissioner
– The service is not already contracted out
– The community has the required skills
– Services that are about to be procured
Work in partnership, be wary of using the
Community Right to Challenge
Page 12

13. 6. Work from an “Asset” not “Deficit” basis
• Communities must be seen as places where there is
abundance not a deficit
• Understand the skills, capabilities and assets in a
community that can be better used to
– Deliver better services
– Build stronger communities
• Get a clear understanding of what these assets are:
– Individual skills, hopes and aspirations
– Associations and community groups
– Institutions
– Physical assets
Page 13
183 unpaid carers in the WCOA and public sector spend
significantly every year in the community on Care

14. Developing stronger communities
Agree criteria
for assessing
community
strength
Identify
candidate
community(s)
for support
C.) Assess LG services
that could be delivered
by community
A.) Community
Engagement:
Assess service delivery
landscape inc cost
B.) Community
Engagement:
Community Asset
Mapping
Plan Deliver
Stage One Stage two Stage three Stage four Stage five
Page 14

15. Thank you
• Tales of the White City - BBC Outreach musical
Stories are incredibly important
Giles Piercy, Locality Matters
07710 381 436
gilespiercy@localitymatters.co.uk