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Empowering Brownsover: A Collaborative Community Transformation

Learn how Operation Echelon uplifted Brownsover, a difficult-to-engage community, from high deprivation rankings to engaged and empowered. With strategic investments and coordinated efforts, Brownsover saw improved living environments, active community involvement, and successful interventions for youths and families. Discover the milestones achieved, lessons learned, and the roadmap for sustainable change in other deprived areas. This success story showcases the power of community development, data assessment, and long-term commitment in creating positive transformations.

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Empowering Brownsover: A Collaborative Community Transformation

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  1. Background • A difficult to engage community • Operation Echelon • Brownsover Forum • A Better Brownsover • Index of Multiple Deprivation • Rugby Forward

  2. IMD 2004 • 1st in Warks for lone parents • 2nd in Warks for unemployment • 3rd in Warks for income deprivation • 10th lowest educational achievement in Warks • 16th in Warks for skills deprivation • Highest concentration of young people in Warwickshire, but still in bottom 30% in England for health deprivation

  3. Outcomes • Investment – streetlights, community parks, cycleways, defensible space,Alleygates, CCTV • Plans- Shops Masterplan • Funding –WCC, RBC , CDRP, Rugby PCT • Communication and action plans • Community Development and Community Engagement

  4. Brownsover – A Co-ordinated Approach • LSP Board • Brownsover Community Forum • Better Brownsover Partnership Board • Executive • Themes

  5. Action Plan Children and Young People • Co-ordinated youth provision (WCC, RBC, Voluntary providers) • Interventions for most vulnerable young people • Responding to young people’s concerns – DVD – places to hang out. • ‘Playing For Success’

  6. Action Plan Adults and Families • Community Information Shop • Children’s Centre, Extended School, enhanced GP practice • Co-ordinated Services for Parents • Drugs & Alcohol misuse

  7. Action Plan The Living Environment • Brownsover Central Masterplan • Co-ordinated Estate Inspections • Defensible Space • Alley-gaters • Cycle Routes • The Park

  8. Action Plan An Active Community • A new Community Association • Traders Association, Tenants Associations – vibrant local groups • Consultation & ownership over ‘Better Brownsover’ proposals • Community-run projects

  9. Non-Community Engagement • Lack of Community Groups. • Inconsistent Agency Presence. • Lack of Community-Agency Networks. • Few Facilities. • Fear of Crime.

  10. Community Engagement • Brokerage / Community Links. • Residents Associations. • Family Learning. • Traders Association/Community Architects. • Faith Communities. • Brownsover Workers Forums. • Brownsover Community Association.

  11. Masterplan for Shops Co-ordinated Estate Inspections Community Information Point Ennerdale Defensible Space Pilot complete June 2006 September 2006 March 2007 March 2007 Brownsover Milestones

  12. Defensible Space project to whole Lake District North Implemented Masterplan with new Community and Health Facilities March 2008 March 2008 Brownsover Milestones

  13. Brownsover Vision • Co-ordinated services for young people • All agencies working effectively together to address serious underlying problems educational attainment, substance misuse and unemployment • Pooled budgets and governance arrangement • Fully Engaged Community • No longer in list of most deprived communities in England 2011

  14. Lessons for Other Deprived Areas • Communities are different and will require a different approach. • Community Development works. • Tackle causes not just symptoms. • Need to assess the data. • Need a long term view.

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