1. Helping People Make Better Places

2. Yorkshire Forward !
Partnership Skills Programme!
2005 - 09
Up-skilling Community Leaders
across the Yorkshire region

3. Yorkshire Forward Programme!
Context
Yorkshire Forward Renaissance Programme
• Evolves during 2001-2, runs up until 2011….
• A methodology for guiding RDA investment in regeneration
Key Ideas:
• The centrality of ‘design’:
Good design = good places = economic & social regeneration
• Involving key local stakeholders (LA’s, business, citizens)
• Meaningful engagement with local people
• 25-year Visions to identify ‘key projects’ for RDA investment
• Helped by selected experts – the ‘Renaissance Panel’
• ‘Town Teams’
…to be supported by a ‘Partnership Skills Programme’, managed
through Integreat Yorkshire.

4. Yorkshire Forward !
Partnership Skills!
Context
Yorkshire Forward Partnership Skills
Programme
Tender issued late 2004 --- i.e. 2 years in to the
Renaissance programme
Contract value c. £2 million
Possibly the largest investment of its kind at
regional level?
Huge, demanding set of expectations / outputs /
audit

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about the future of their towns.
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8. Who was it for?
The ‘Town Team’
A locally based team of individuals from a wide range of interests and groups. Town Team
members are active citizens, key local authority officers and members, private sector and
community representatives
Ensuring that the Town Team had the most appropriate skills to be able to turn
vision into reality was a priority.

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10. Developing Visions for the Future
Supporting town teams to conceive and
guide the delivery of 25-year Visions & Plans

11. Accredited Learning
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• Related to live public realm projects based on real regeneration
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• Each town received an individual package tailored to meet their
specific needs
• Enabled the town team to engage others in their areas
• Offered the town team promotion opportunities about its work
• Helped build the team
• Embedded partnership working
• Taught practical project management skills

13. Engaging Young People
• ‘I-Town My-Town’ – digital diaries
• Inspirational site visits
• Placecheck
• Film projects
• Design competitions
• Temporary youth café’s designed by young people

14. “Excellent conference with first class speaker George Ferguson offered inspiring !
advice and general renewed motivation.” Conference delegate. !
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• Build capacity within Town Teams.

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