Have you got a bright idea that could make a difference to vulnerable or disadvantaged people?
We want you to play an active role in our work for the next ten years. To celebrate our Golden Jubilee, we’re promoting a Golden Projects Competition – this is your chance to design and pilot a project that will improve the wellbeing and living conditions of vulnerable people. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a tenant, a senior manager or a frontline worker, we want you to get your idea backed by your housing organisation, and present it to a panel of housing experts, including HACT ambassadors.
The proposal that’s chosen will then become a HACT pilot project: it’ll be announced at our Golden Jubilee reception at the House of Lords in November 2010, and will be started in 2011.
So how do you enter the competition?
First, you need to make sure your idea is backed by a social housing provider, and supports a partnership with local people, voluntary or other local groups;
Second, your idea should have the potential to improve the wellbeing and living conditions of poor and/or marginalised people in a local community. The issues that your project might address include:
offering new opportunities to tenants and residents that might not have seemed available to them; for example, in work, in learning, or in their housing options;
building bridges between different members of the community from different ages, faiths, ethnicity, background or other;
sharing power between professionals, housing organsiations and communities, which can mean shaping formal structures of community engagement, partnering between housing providers and community led organisations or supporting people to tackle ways of working which make them feel disempowered.
Golden Projects Competition
- offering new opportunities to tenants and residents that might not have seemed available to them; for example, in work, in learning, or in their housing options;
- building bridges between different members of the community from different ages, faiths, ethnicity, background or other;
- sharing power between professionals, housing organsiations and communities, which can mean shaping formal structures of community engagement, partnering between housing providers and community led organisations or supporting people to tackle ways of working which make them feel disempowered.
Have you got a bright idea that could make a difference to vulnerable or disadvantaged people?
We want you to play an active role in our work for the next ten years. To celebrate our Golden Jubilee, we’re promoting a Golden Projects Competition – this is your chance to design and pilot a project that will improve the wellbeing and living conditions of vulnerable people. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a tenant, a senior manager or a frontline worker, we want you to get your idea backed by your housing organisation, and present it to a panel of housing experts, including HACT ambassadors.
The proposal that’s chosen will then become a HACT pilot project: it’ll be announced at our Golden Jubilee reception at the House of Lords in November 2010, and will be started in 2011.
So how do you enter the competition?
First, you need to make sure your idea is backed by a social housing provider, and supports a partnership with local people, voluntary or other local groups;
Second, your idea should have the potential to improve the wellbeing and living conditions of poor and/or marginalised people in a local community. The issues that your project might address include:
Downloads:
Download a full information pack here
To submit your ideas, download the pro forma here
View Inside Housing ad from 4 June 2010 here
Time line:
Opening of applications: June 2010
Deadline for proposals: 4 October 2010
Assessment: October – November 2010
Winner announced: 23 November 2010
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We look forward to your idea!