Strategy, Funding and Evaluation
Integrated Youth Support Service & Facilities Strategy, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
MGA was invited to support the Head of Service to develop and deliver transformational change within the Borough’s Youth Services. more>
Great Yarmouth Neighbourhood Management Programme Action Plan Development
Our work started with a neighbourhood walkabout. We wished to understand the neighbourhood better by walking its streets and talking to local people. more>
Strategic Fundraising Support, Woman Like Us
Women Like Us is a social enterprise that helps women with children to build their skills and confidence and find flexible work to fit around their family lifestyles. more>
Improving Neighbourhood Evaluation, King's Lynn
The West Norfolk Partnership commissioned MGA to evaluate this programme funded via the Local Area Agreement. more>
Neighbourhood Management Strategy, Beechwood Ballantine Community Housing Association
Beechwood Ballantine Community Housing Association (BBCHA) is a new Registered Social Landlord with an ambition to deliver neighbourhood management across all homes in the neighbourhood. more>
London Empowerment Partnership
MGA was invited by the London Empowerment Partnership to develop a model of involving residents as Community Evaluators. Community evaluation seeks to understand what makes engagement empowering or disempowering from the perspective of those taking part, our residents and communities. more>
Bridging the Mismatch (East Midlands Empowerment Partnership)
Working for Urban Forum, and alongside The Campaign Company, we piloted the Bridging the Mismatch action research approach in Boston and Lincoln. more>
UnLtd – Social Franchising
We worked with UnLtd to support them develop and implement a business model for scaling up their successful social enterprise model through a form of social franchising. more>
East Lindsey – Evaluating Different Approaches to Community Engagement
Early in 2010 we were appointed by the East Lindsey District Council to undertake an evaluation of three engagement approaches in East Lindsey, namely... more>
Family Mosaic – Community Facility Feasibility Study
Supporting Family Mosaic’s competitive dialogue to acquire a development site for an affordable housing development, we were engaged to undertake an options appraisal and viability study for the new community facility. more>
Partnership
Partnership Development, Tendring District Council
Tendring District Council were looking for assistance in helping them with the overall direction and delivery for a SSCF funded neighbourhood and town centre programme for Jaywick and Clacton in Essex. more>
Local Assemblies Support, London Borough of Lewisham
MGA was invited to step in and facilitate a ‘mock assembly event’ to test the Borough’s new model for devolution and gain support from the local third sector. more>
Partnership Development, Peterborough
In an interim management role, we delivered strategic programme development and implementation support for a Neighbourhood Element funded Neighbourhood Management initiative in Greater Dogsthorpe. more>
Direct Linc – Lincolnshire
Direct Linc is a project we began in 2009 for Lincolnshire County Council. The project was driven by the question ‘How do individuals in our communities get things fixed?’ which highlights the problem... more>
Localism & DECENTRALISATION
Integrated Local Service Access, Changes in Common, Greenwich
Shortlisted for a Municipal Journal Local Government Achievement Award for ‘Innovating with the Third Sector’, this was a neighbourhood service interface, designed and delivered by a resident-led partnership. more>
Neighbourhood Management Strategy, LB Barking & Dagenham
Following the successful evaluation of Barking & Dagenham’s two neighbourhood management pilots, MGA was invited to develop a borough-wide Neighbourhood Management strategy. more>
Pepys Community Infrastructure, LB Lewisham
MGA was invited to develop a way forward to support community infrastructure in a disadvantaged area of the Borough. more>
Gascoigne Community Centre, LB Barking & Dagenham
In 2008 the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham received an allocation of Youth Capital Fund Plus monies to improve facilities for young people in an area of high crime. more>
Neighbourhood Management, City of Lincoln
MGA was initially invited to support local neighbourhood managers providing mentoring and technical support in carrying out their roles. more>
Community Responses
Working for the London Civic Forum, we have been piloting a new approach to addressing persistent community issues, placing residents at the centre of the approach. more>
Tower Hamlets Homes
We have been working with Tower Hamlets Homes (THH) since the beginning of 2010. In that time we have been supporting the development of a cost effective... more>
Somerset County Council – Change Programme Community Engagement Model
During the summer of 2011, we were commissioned with the Big Society Network to advise on a new Community Engagement Model for Somerset County Council as part of its radical Change Programme. more> |
