REGENERATING THE CLAPHAM PARK AREA

Clapham Park Project Directory

Business, Employment & Training

Construction Training Scheme
Generation Radio
Shop For Jobs
Clapham Park Volunteers Scheme

Community Safety

The Bikes Project
Neighbourhood Officers (Wardens)

Education & Youth

Empowered Youth
Inspiring Learning for all
Saturday School
Young Arts II

Health & Social Care

Healthy Living II
Smoking Cessation
Clapham Park Time Bank

Neighbourhood Management

Business Recycling
Community Development
Estate Redevelopment Programme
Neighbourhood Management

Construction Training Scheme

Contact: Shop for Jobs Tel: 020 8 683 9910

The Construction Training Scheme has been designed to support residents to gain employment within the construction industry. The programme will support adult trainees through college to achieve a National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 2 and provide the work experience that will allow them to acquire the experience needed to secure employment. For experienced construction workers without qualifications, the scheme will provide opportunities for them to obtain on site skills, assessment and accreditation based upon projects they have completed. The Scheme will support local construction traders by increasing their knowledge and understanding of the procurement procedures for securing sub contracts and providing general business advice. This initiative will equip residents with the necessary skills to take advantage of the employment opportunities created by the redevelopment of the Clapham Park area.

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Generation Radio

When: Monday – Sunday Where: In Clapham Park area Contact: Andy Sayers Tel: 020 8678 5900

Launched in June 2006, Generation Radio is run for and by the local community. The radio station provides a focal point for the community, acting as a notice board and a place to share ideas and celebrate successes. Groups and individuals can listen to a wide range of radio programmes created by local people representative of the rich cultural diversity. The Project provides training for residents in the full range of radio station roles, including broadcaster, DJ, researcher, features presenter, technician and station manager, as well as back office functions such as marketing. A Committee supports the Project. The radio station broadcasts throughout the year via the internet at www.generationradio.co.uk The Project also broadcasts for approximately one month every year on FM in October.

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Shop for Jobs

When: Monday 12.00 - 8.00pm, Tuesday - Thursday 10.00am - 5.00pm 1st Saturday every month from 9.30am - 12.30pm Where: 71 - 73 New Park Road, SW2 Contact: Shop for Jobs Team Tel: 020 8683 9910

Shop for Jobs provides advice and guidance services to unemployed Clapham Park NDC residents covering all benefit entitlements with linked vocational support. The Project also helps young people and adults through the critical first steps on the employment ladder during the transition from unemployment to opportunity seeker. Shop for Jobs has its own in-house training provision to support residents into employment and is delivered in partnership with: Jobcentre Plus, external training providers and employers providing a unique blend of centralised accessible services which facilitate a move away from benefit dependency into work. Shop for Jobs has helped hundreds of residents into training and employment, reducing local unemployment and improving skills.

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Clapham Park Volunteers Scheme

When: Monday - Friday Where: 1-4 Brixton Hill Place, SW2 1HJ Contact: Everstina Musamabik Tel: 020 8678 5900

This Project has been designed to co-ordinate voluntary activities within the Clapham Park NDC. A central register of volunteers and vacancies have been established that helps to match individuals to a suitable volunteering opportunity. The Project aims to increase routes into paid employment by providing volunteering opportunities that give practical learning and skills development, boosts confidence levels and ultimately contributes towards sustainable employment. The Volunteer Scheme has helped many residents find volunteer placements, some of which have led to full-time employment.

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Bike Project

When: Thursday & Friday 4.00 - 6.00pm Saturday 10.00am - 12.00pm Repairs Shop: Saturday 1.00 - 6.00pm Where: Bikes Project Workshop, Clapham Park Estate Contact: Mick Pettifer Tel: 020 8678 5924

The Project provides positive pathways for young people that enhances their skills in an activity they enjoy by providing cycle rebuilding and maintenance sessions. The Project provides cycle training to children and young people ages 8-16 years old to promote good cycle skills and improve road safety and reduce road traffic accidents. The Project will also pilot sessions with 16-19 year olds to help reduce the antisocial activities. The Project will provide cycle related activities and trips for young people and their families to minimise their vulnerability to get involved in crime. The Project will also operate a paid for cycle repair service for 4 hours per week on Saturdays, and will wherever possible, engage the young people who have learnt the bike repair skills through the workshop sessions to provide this service.

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Neighbourhood Officers (Wardens)

When: Monday - Friday 7.00am - 11.00pm Saturday & Sunday 9.00am - 5.00pm (These times are subject to change) Where: 44 - 46 New Park Road, SW2 Contact: Melinda Francis Tel: 020 8678 5223 or Freephone 0800 32 88 979

The Warden's role is to act as the 'eyes and ears of the community'. Their job is to:

• Offer advice and information
• Give safety and home security advice
• Observe, record and report incidents
• Encourage community participation in
• Community services, e.g. youth activities and health sessions.

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Empowered Youth

When: Various times Where: Various venues around Clapham Park Contact: Shaun Danquah Tel: 020 8678 5900

The purpose of the Project is to provide a coordinated approach to the delivery of youth provision at the same time as developing individuals and resident led social enterprises to deliver future services:

• Young people are empowered so that they are at the heart of the NDC, and its future Development
• Activities for young people that meet the needs of the community
• Youth workers are trained and equipped
• Community enterprises led by young people are created and supported
• The Youth Forum enables young people to debate and develop ideas and issues

For an up-to-date programme of youth activities across Clapham Park contact Shaun. The Project runs regular holiday programmes as well as activities at centres in and around Clapham Park.

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Inspiring Learning for All

When: Various times Where: Various venues around Clapham Park Contact: Eve Levic (Monday - Wednesday) Tel: 020 8678 5900

This Project was set up to develop a range of longer term and sustainable learning opportunities within Clapham Park in general and with targeted groups in particular, such as teenagers, the elderly, specific ethnic communities, under 5s and families. Inspiring Learning or All promotes literacy within Clapham Park. The Project aims to inspire people to learn something new and enriching; thus developing a lifelong learning culture that will impact on attainment, e.g., Key Stage 2, employment, further and higher education and general improvement and confidence. The Project will help to develop a future library service in the
area based on the needs and aspirations of residents.

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Saturday School

When: Saturdays from 10am – 1.30pm during term time Where: 1-4 Brixton Hill Place, London SW2 Tel: 020 8678 5900

Many pupils in Clapham Park are not achieving the educational standards that they are capable of, perhaps due to economic inequality or because English is their second language.
The Saturday School is run during term times between 10.00am - 1.30pm for juniors (8 -11 years) and seniors (11 -16 years). The aim is to work according to each child's individual needs. Preparation for SATs and entrance exams are also undertaken.

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Young Arts Project

When: Various times Where: Schools and Youth Centres Provided by: Arts Community Exchange (ACE) Contact: Maggy Ritchie Tel: 020 8683 9610

Young Arts enables children & young people to take part in high quality artist led projects and rewards and celebrates their creative achievements. It builds capacity in local artists and organisations by providing training, networking and volunteering opportunities, that brings them together in delivering and sustaining a Clapham Park wide arts programme. Workshops take place at local schools, nurseries, youth and community settings, and enable children and young people to work with artists to develop their creativity and explore a range of techniques and ideas. In the long-term ACE aims to develop a community arts facility as a ‘creative hub’ for Clapham Park, bringing artists and the local community together and developing arts practice and creative expression in the area.

Healthy Living II

When: Various times Where: Various locations within the NDC area Contact: Nicky Saynor Tel: 020 8678 5935 Provided with: Lambeth PCT Nutrition & Dietetics Dept and Lambeth Sports & Recreation Team

The project provides activities, information and support to help NDC residents adopt healthier lifestyles, including health checks, exercise classes, cookery sessions and one-to-one advice about healthy eating and exercise. The project will also provide training for residents and local organisations with a view to sustaining some of these activities after the project ends.

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Smoking Cessation

When: Various times Where: Various locations within the NDC area Contact: Nicky Saynor Tel: 020 8678 5935 Provided with: Lambeth PCT Stop Smoking Team

The aim of the project is to raise awareness amongst NDC residents of the harm caused by smoking and support available to help smokers quit. The project will work closely with GP practices, local groups and organisations to engage people who may not otherwise access Stop Smoking Services. The Clapham Park Project Smoking Cessation Advisor will provide extra support and advice to help quitters and encourage them to make quitting part of roader improvements to their lifestyle. The project will work with schools to discourage young people from taking up smoking. Local residents will also be offered training to become smoking cessation advisors or accredited Health Trainers.

Clapham Park Time Bank

The Clapham Park Time Bank is designed to promote the mental wellbeing of residents in the area and is delivered by South London & Maudsley FoundationTrust (SLAM). This project allows an innovative system of 'time credits' to be exchanged to address the gaps in provision of services and bring local people, groups and organisations together to improve mental wellbeing of residents by:

• Enhancing social networks to address issues of isolation and depression faced by any people living in the area
• Identifying and building on the positive contributions individuals can make to addressing problems identified in the local community

Examples of how time credits can be earned include:

• Helping out at the NDC Luncheon Club
• Running poetry workshops
• Answering phones at the Time Bank office

Examples of how time credits can be spent include:

• Accessing training
• Attending belly dancing classes
• Getting help with gardening

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Business Recycling

For: Businesses within the Clapham Park NDC area that have Commercial Waste Agreements with Lambeth Council and whose payments are up to date Contact: Lambeth Recycling Officer Tel: 020 7926 9000

The purpose of this Project is to provide a new business recycling service which is efficient and reliable to businesses within the NDC area at a discounted rate of 20% on what businesses currently pay. This service builds on the success of the Doorstep Refuse and Recycling Scheme currently received by residents within the NDC area. Under the scheme businesses will be able to recycle the following; cardboard, glass/plastic bottles, white and coloured paper, computer printouts, unwanted mail, newspaper and magazines.

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Community Development

When: Throughout the year Where: 1-4 Brixton Hill Place SW2 1HJ Contact: Roz Thompson/Candice Ampah Tel: 020 8678 5923/020 8678 5926

A number of different community activities are provided throughout the year by the community Development Team:

• We are empowering residents to organise trips, community activities and take part in other local decision making processes
• We organise coffee mornings and assist with informal events including the bi- annual festival in order to promote community cohesion and disseminate information about CPP.
• You may already have met some of our staff who provide an outreach and distribution service across the area.
• You may want to develop projects and test out new ideas. Our Community Chest fund provides an easily accessible source of small sums of money for local residents to develop these types of ideas to meet specified objectives.
• We run a quarterly networking event for the local community and voluntary sector.

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Estate Redevelopment Programme

Where: Throughout Clapham Park Contact: Keith Evans Tel: 020 8623 8900

This is CPP's most significant project both in terms of its scope and magnitude and its NDC Budget allocation of £21 million. It will kick start the re-development of all the former council
housing stock and begin the process of creating a revitalised neighbourhood in the heart of Clapham Park. It will be the manifestation of local resident’s vision and aspirations, which was captured in the CPP Master Plan. In June 2006, following a successful stock transfer, Clapham Park Homes became the new landlord of the Clapham Park estate. They will take forward this major regeneration programme which will ensure that residents can enjoy good quality, well managed and maintained homes at affordable rents. The scheme will see a revitalised neighbourhood come into being with new parks, a range of community facilities including a library, health centre and gym, better transport links, more choice of shops, cleaner and safer streets, decent services and more local jobs - in short, a place to be proud of.

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Neighbourhood Management

When: Monday - Friday Where: 1-4 Brixton Hill Place, SW2 1HJ Contact: Patricia Poorman Tel: 020 8678 5933

The project provides the opportunity for local residents to shape and hold public services to account, thus improving the services coordination and performance for the community. The project aims to develop active citizens who are able to influence the way in which local services are designed and delivered within their neighbourhood and participate in local decision making structures. A Neighbourhood Forum has been set up which gives residents the opportunity to voice their views on specific issues affecting their local neighbourhood. Meetings are held quarterly and training will be provided for residents who are involved in the Neighbourhood Forum to provide them with the relevant skills to play a role in driving up service standards and contribute to developing a sense of community and place. The Forum is also intended to assist CPP, CPH and partners to improve service delivery within the context of Best Value and provide a more efficient, transparent and accountable decision making process at a neighbourhood level.

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