Welcome to the Growing Together 'Our Bigger Story' website. This is part of the multi media evaluation of 15 Big Local areas in England. The website is an opportunity to follow what is changing in Growing Together as a result of Big Local over a ten year period.
The aim of the website is to share the learning from everything that is happening in Growing Together with other Big Local areas and highlight what works in communities with a wider audience of practitioners and policy makers.
This workshop brought together people from the community of all ages and from different agencies. They discussed how Big Local has worked, what has been achieved, some of the challenges and identified learning for future programmes and projects. The report is attached here - it also includes a list of all projects supported by Growing Together since the start; there is also a short film from the event.
After consultation with many local people it was decided that a place where people could go for a coffee and a chat would be very useful. The Hub now has two rooms in the local community centre, one for socializing and one for private consultations.
A full review of the programme drew upon a Partnership Review questionnaire and widespread consultation in 2015 and was concluded at a dedicated Partnership awayday in October 2015. The Plan runs from April 2016 to March 2018.
Growing Together's plan outlines Big Local's original aspirations for the area. Against Big Local outcomes, the Plan identifies the responses to needs and priorities identified through consultations with the local community.