What if...
What if...
no one got involved in your neighbourhood?
Successful neighbourhoods need interested and involved local residents. They need people who can form community groups, lobby for better facilities, or get involved in local politics.
Neighbourhood management is a way of making local services work for the benefit of a local community. A neighbourhood manager brings together a partnership of service providers such as the local council, the police, healthcare providers and employment services to coordinate their activities and focus them on local issues. In Clifton, Nottingham, for example, services now operate from a new building, the Clifton Cornerstone, at the heart of a local shopping centre and accessible to members of the public. There are now about 300 neighbourhood management schemes across England.
For neighbourhood management to work effectively, local people need to be willing and able to get involved in their locality. Residents are usually strongly represented on neighbourhood management boards. A vocal business community can focus attention on issues such as rubbish collection and street lighting, helping to make local shopping centres safer and more attractive.
A key aspect of neighbourhood managers’ work is to get to know local community groups and organisations. These can range from a tenants’ and residents’ association on a council estate, which represents residents and ensures they are getting a good service from their landlord, to sports clubs or arts groups that might want to improve their facilities or stage a local festival.
Neighbourhood managers will also work with local community leaders, from elected councillors to leaders of mosques or churches, helping them to get involved in the wider community and resolving potential conflicts.
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