Youth and Community Resilience Across UK
Jul 30, 2017
Resilience Consortum Research
Since the Resilience Consortium was formed in the days following the disturbances of August 2011, we have worked to balance the discourse about why the riots happened and what is needed to prevent future disturbances. To ensure this debate is not dominated by the voice of blame, we wanted to include the expertise of the youth sector together with the important but unheard voices, of the young people living in those communities.We secured funding to commission the research and production of this report, believing it would help us to understand the experience of the young people living in the areas affected by the riots and would be the first step to creating a meaningful and effective resilience to public disorder in those and other potentially volatile communities.
Jul 30, 2017
Using Social Action in the African Diaspora to Create Community Resilience
CREATING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES THROUGH SOCIAL LEADERSHIP
This project is a social leadership training programme that aims to develop participants' personal and professional social leadership skills. The learning activities will give participants new frameworks for enabling positive change in their communities. The project involves a UK consortium of 4 organisations and 2 receiving European partner organisations who will provide training input: Change Lab Theory facilitated by Impuls in Berlin, and Appreciative Leadership course run by Fractality in Athens.
The key objectives of our project are:
- To strengthen the capacity of individual organisations to anticipate threat, plan for change and develop new initiatives
- To develop leadership skills by gaining new knowledge, insight and understanding of effecting personal, organisational and societal change
- To encourage collective action as a way of solving challenges that cannot be resolved by individual working
- To build our consortium to offer mutual support and to develop new areas of work
- To impart new skills that will enable participants of the project to successfully tackle and navigate the complex challenges that their organisations often face
- To develop pan-European connections and partnerships to meet identified development needs both now and in the future
- To share good practice and create future opportunities to facilitate European and international partners' learning as a 'receiving' UK consortium