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Community participation Box 3 Brenda’s story Brenda Grixti has lived in Benchill for 35 years and, in 2004, won an award for Best Contribution to the Community in Manchester City Council’s annual Community Awards. With the range of things she is involved in, it is not hard to see why. She is employed as Co-ordinator for Benchill Community Centre, which she was instrumental in setting up. She sat on the board of the Wythenshawe Single Regeneration Budget partnership. Through the Centre, she has been involved in SureStart and invited to become a governor of two local schools. She remains an active board member for Wythenshawe Voices, the Community Empowerment Network’s geographical partner for the area. She organises residentials and consultative panels for young people to feed into the Tenants and Residents Conference. She also attends meetings of the local Patient Advice and Liaison Service and monthly sessions of the Primary Care Trust (PCT). Brenda has also been appointed as one of the community representatives on the board of the Wythenshawe Forum, a £20-million, community-based cultural and leisure facility. Figure 3 Brenda’s governance activities and institutional affiliations SureStart Tenants and Residents Conference Participant Committee Community centre Youth panels Organiser BRENDA GRIXTI Co-ordinator Board Board Board Grant recipient Area Regeneration Partnership Board Housing association Community-based cultural/ leisure facility Local sub-network of Community Empowerment Network and Local Strategic Partnership geographical partner Two school governing bodies 24
Community participation in two deprived neighbourhoods One thing leads to another The second common theme to emerge from many of the insiders was that their heavy involvement in governance had tended to spring from the connections between different opportunities for participation – getting involved in one had led to getting involved in another. This was true of both the breadth and depth of their involvement. For example, Mike Jones’ participation in educational governance began with volunteering at his local school. That led to him being invited to become a school governor. Participating in events with other school governors in the area then led to him being nominated as a Parent Governor Representative on Cardiff City Council’s Education Scrutiny Committee. Sixteen-year-old Chloe was born and brought up in Ely. She belongs to the Cardiff Young People’s Panel and through that, was asked to represent Ely on Funky Dragon, the national Welsh youth forum. She was also asked to co-chair a youth consultation panel for Cardiff Council on education issues, and recently helped to organise the annual Cardiff-wide Youth Congress. Chloe now often finds herself courted by organisations wanting to consult and engage with young people. Before he would let our research team meet her, her youth worker was careful to find out exactly why we wanted to speak to her, and it’s easy to see why he should be protective – Chloe is a girl in demand. It’s who you know that counts Third, the main reason why different governance opportunities were so interconnected, and that involvement in one led to involvement in another, was the overlapping social networks between the people involved. There was a good deal of cross-recruitment, with participants in one governance arrangement persuaded to join another by people they met who happened to participate in both. Youth worker John Hallett’s participation in governance began when he was inspired to join LETRA, his local tenants and residents’ association, by the example of a visionary member he had met. Through youth work at the Dusty Forge community centre he came into contact with the Ely Development Forum, which held its meetings there. Through the Forum he learnt about the opportunity to participate on the Communities First Partnership. 25
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