St Mary Redcliffe Community Facilties Review

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1.Background In summer 2017 Vivid Regeneration were commissioned by St Mary Redcliffe Church to undertake a piece of community development work to inform and support the Church’s planned development project. This major development project aims to bring the Church back into optimum condition and provide the best possible visitor experience, with enhanced access to its great artefacts and the stories they have to tell. Importantly, the Church also wants to use this project to better connect with the local community on its doorstep and enable people to benefit through participation in shaping the development, learning, volunteering, work experience, family and community activities. It includes plans for a Visitor Centre which is welcoming, accessible and meaningful for all visitors, whether local or from far afield. The initial scoping exercise by Vivid identified the need to strengthen the ability of local community organisations to work together for the benefit of Redcliffe and to further build residents’ capacity, skills, confidence and involvement. This is with the aim of both enabling good quality and sustainable engagement with the development project and more broadly to build resilience for all the challenges and opportunities the community will face over the next few years. These outcomes have been the focus of our work since September 2017 and this community facilities review forms part of that work. 2.Purpose of the Report Community facilities and spaces which enable people to gather for group activities, social support, meetings, learning, sharing information, being creative, being physically active, are a vital tool in building a strong community. They can be instrumental in reducing social isolation, providing support for families, improving health and wellbeing, developing skills, improving community cohesion and promoting understanding and connection between different sections of the community. This review of community facilities aims to fulfil a number of purposes: • To provide a general overview of all the indoor community facilities for residents to access for meetings, learning, events, activities. This includes current availability, access, level of usage, and costs where available. • To set out details of each facility to ensure that residents and local workers have easy access to sufficient information to make the best use of the space available. This is particularly important at a time when local public sector support is being reduced or withdrawn all together due to cuts, and the need for residents to have the tools and information to organise themselves is stronger than ever. 1
• To make recommendations for encouraging and supporting the use of these facilities as appropriate, including physical and practical improvements. • To identify opportunities and ideas for further potential activities and uses, in line with the needs and aspirations of the community and to support community development. • To provide a context to inform future developments of the need for and viability of any further community facilities which may be provided. 3 Need and context 3.1 Short Profile of Redcliffe This review focuses on the community facilities available on or very close to the Redcliffe Estate which, following ward boundary changes is now part of Central Ward in Bristol. Central Ward represents a large area with a population of 15,000 people. It extends as far West as Park Street and the University of Bristol buildings, Stokes Croft (part) and Broadmead to the North and East, the Centre, North Redcliffe, and Queen Square. One of the advantages of Redcliffe’s location is that people who are live there are close to public transport hubs and to the wide range of social, shopping and cultural activities available in and around the city centre. However the ability of all residents to access the range of local activities and opportunities is varied and some are hindered by social, cultural, health and economic barriers from gaining the full benefit of what is on offer. Redcliffe Estate sits in a Lower Layer Super Output Area or LSOA, known as Redcliffe South. The accommodation in this part of Redcliffe is largely local authority flats, but the area is increasingly surrounded by privately owned or rented flats, some of which are very expensive, such as the new development at the General on the former hospital site. Because of this, and the increasing needs of people placed in social housing, inequalities within the local population are widening. To reverse this trend we need to make sure that all residents benefit from changes and developments in Redcliffe. The challenges faced by some residents in Redcliffe are reflected in the following statistics: • Overall Redcliffe South is ranked within the 3.3% most deprived wards in England, and 20 th worst performing LSOAs in Bristol 1. • It is in the top 1% most deprived LSOA in relation to Income Deprivation Affecting Children. 1 Deprivation in Bristol 2015 The mapping of deprivation within Bristol Local Authority November 2015 - https://www.bristol.gov.uk/statistics-census-information/deprivation 2
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