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Introduction The Bristol URBAN Programme is a community-led initiative to encourage and support local residents to regenerate the area where they live. The URBAN area covers a population of over 17,000 residents in the wards of Ashley, parts of Easton and Lawrence Hill as shown on the area map. It includes St Pauls, St Werburghs, St Agnes, Barton Hill, Redcliffe, Old Market and parts of Easton. |
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The Programme's focus has been to improve the training and employment prospects of the local community, by increasing empowerment, participation and wealth and enhance the impact of existing regeneration programmes. A total investment package of almost £7 million has been achieved through a combination of over £3 million from the European Commission and public and private sector support. Managed by a local partnership, ideas and projects have been created by local people. The programme has made excellent progress towards meeting its objectives and targets, benefiting local people, local businesses and local communities. Just to name some of the successes to date the programme has : Our target neighbourhoods have been those that are most disadvantaged, experiencing challenges of isolation, poverty and exclusion where unemployment, for example, is around 22% against a national average of around 10%. The most disadvantaged groups targeted by the programme include:
In achieving the purpose of empowering and directly improving the employment and training prospects of those in the URBAN area, a variety of projects have been delivered addressing 3 main priorities (Measures) which are:
All ESF (Measure 3) Projects were successfully completed during December 2000. To read more about these measures and how each is applied, please go to Aims & Objectives Bristol is one of a limited number (118) of experimental URBAN programmes throughout Europe. It has become clear that urban problems are best solved at grass root level. As such, a "bottom-up" approach has underpinned the whole programme and within each project. This has required taking responsibility and ownership at local level, as much for the creation, as of the results, of a particular scheme and idea. "Helping communities and individuals to help themselves" is an underlying principle of the Bristol Urban Programme. Success has come about through local people, local communities, local businesses and developing partnerships, driving initiatives and creating a spirit of confidence and renewal, in an area that has always displayed a diverse and vibrant culture. "Helping communities and individuals to help themselves" Copyright 2000 Bristol URBAN Programme |
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