A

ABI

Area Based Initiative

Accountable Body

An organisation or group of people who form an agreement with another company to be completely responsible for receipt and use of funding and auditing a Programme or Project.

ACDF

Active Communities Development Fund

ACE

Arts Council of England

ACEVO

Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations

ACF

Association of Voluntary Organisations

ACIE

Association of Charity Independent Examiners

Active Community Unit

A unit in the Home Office which aims to promote the development of the voluntary and community sector and encourage people to become actively involved in their communities, particularly in deprived areas.
Their objectives are to build capacity in local communities and promote effective community development,
To promote and facilitate positive community involvement and citizenship,
To develop productive partnerships between Government and the voluntary and community sector at local, regional and national levels, and
To develop a modern legal and regulatory framework for the voluntary and community sector and to encourage good practice www.homeoffice.gov.uk

ACU

Active Community Unit (Home Office)

Additionality

A way of measuring the benefits of a projects activities which highlights the changes brought about, which wouldn't have occurred, if the project hadn't taken place.

AGM

Annual General Meeting

Aims and objectives:

The proposals and intentions that a project is stipulating that it will achieve.

ALI

Adult Learning Inspectorate

ALM

Action Learning for Managers

ALW

Adult Learners' Week

ANEC

Association of North East Councils

Anti-Poverty Strategies:

An attempt at a co-ordinated approach to tackling poverty including programmes to help people claim benefits, manage debt, have access to low interest small loans and better access to social work and housing services.

Area Based Regeneration:

In some areas, problems of economic (e.g. decline of a major local industry), social and environmental dereliction combine to lock local communities into a vicious cycle of exclusion. Area based initiatives encourage a range of partners to work together, targeting their resources to improve the quality of life in these specific areas.

ARVAC

Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector

Area Investment Frameworks (AIFs):

Set out the regeneration priorities for an area with the aim of targeting funding from regional development agencies (see RDAs). AIFs are developed by partnerships of local and regional agencies.

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Baseline:

A measurement of the starting conditions, for example numbers unemployed, before a programme is undertaken. The benefits of a programme can be assessed over time by comparing the baseline figures with more up to date figures.

BASSAC

British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres

BCD

Black and Culturally Diverse

Beacon Councils:

A government scheme which identifies excellence and innovation in local government. Round 4 beacons will be announced in April 2003 with learning exchanges starting in June 2003. www.idea.gov.uk

BECON

Black and Minority Ethnic Community Organisations' Network

Bending Main Programmes:

Tackling deprivation by focusing local agency and government department spending more specifically on the most deprived areas - see Mainstreaming.

Best Value:

A framework, based on a set of nationally determined indicators to help local authorities measure, manage and improve their performance. www.local-regions.odpm.gov.uk

BitC

Business in the Community

BL

Business Link

BME

Black Minority Ethnic

BSA

Basic Skills Agency

BSL

British Sign Language

BTCV

British Trust for Conservation Volunteers

BTEG

Black Training and Enterprise Group

BURA

British Urban Regeneration Association

BME

abbreviation for Black Minority Ethnic

Brownfield Land:

Land that has been previously developed.

Building Communities Initiative:

An initiative set up in 1999, managed by Free Form Arts Trust, a charity, the project encourages local communities to participate in housing regeneration projects.  It is facilitated by Free Form Design and Technical Services with the help of government funding. www.freeform.org.uk

Business Broker Schemes:

Local Strategic Partnerships are being invited to bid for these to assist businesses in maximising their contribution to Neighbourhood Renewal. Business in the Community and the British Chambers of Commerce are co-ordinating the project. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

Business Improvement Districts:

A part of an urban area where local businesses pay additional rates to create improvements in services such as street cleaning, landscaping or crime reduction.

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CAB

Citizens Advice Bureau

CAF

Charities Aid Foundation

Capacity Building:

Shorthand for a wide range of support, techniques and initiatives which aim build the capacity of individuals or organisations within communities to contribute effectively to regeneration projects.  

Capital Funding:

Money spent on the purchase or improvement of fixed assets such as buildings, roads and equipment.

CAVOS

Community and Voluntary Organisations Sedgefield

CBI

Confederation of British Industry

CDF

Community Development Foundation

CED

Community Economic Development

CEDC

Community Education Development Centre

CEF

Community Empowerment Fund

CEMVO

Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CES

Charities Evaluation Services

CFN

Community Foundation Network

CHC

Community Health Council

CIO

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (proposed new legal structure)

CIPD

Chartered Institute of Personnel Development

City Challenge:

A five year Government initiative, now completed, aimed at transforming specific rundown inner city areas and significantly improving the quality of life for local residents within its policy area

City Growth Strategy Initiative:

A scheme, piloted by the Small Business Service in four areas to encourage towns and cities to develop and implement inner city strategies which put enterprise and business at the heart of regeneration, focusing on the competitive advantages of inner city areas

City Pride:

Citywide partnerships launched in 1993 to enhance the cities of Birmingham, London and Manchester.

CLGB

Consortium of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Voluntary and Community Organisations

Closed-Circuit Television Initiative:

Jointly managed by the Home Office, the ODPM and the National Assembly for Wales, the Closed-Circuit Television Initiative aims to help local crime and disorder reduction partnerships deploy closed-circuit television (CCTV) in areas with significant crime and disorder problems.

CLS

Community Legal Service

CO

Chief Officer

COMBINE

Community Business in the North East

Communities First:

A new Welsh Assembly programme to establish 100 partnerships in areas of deprivation across Wales to tackle deprivation using a comprehensive approach and the involvement of the local community.

Communities Scotland:

An executive agency of the Scottish Executive, directly accountable to the Scottish Parliament which carries out three functions: regeneration, regulation and inspection of social landlords, and investment and performance in housing. www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk

Community Businesses:

Organisations which are established to provide services and/or employment in a local community. Their focus is about building the community and the local economy, but doing so in a business-like way as independent and self-supporting organisations.

Community Chest:

Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chests are administered by voluntary sector 'lead organisations' and offer small grants of up to £5,000 to community groups for projects to help them renew their own neighbourhoods. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

Community Empowerment Fund (CEF):

Aims to help community and voluntary groups to become empowered in order to participate in Local Strategic Partnerships and neighbourhood renewal. Government Offices for the Regions are responsible for distributing CEF resources and there will be £36m over three years. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

Community Forum:

The Community Forum was launched on 23 January 2002. It's purpose is to act as a sounding board for Ministers and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and provide a 'grass-roots' perspective on neighbourhood renewal strategies. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

Community Fund:

The operating name of the National Lottery Charities Board, the independent organisation set up by Parliament in 1994 to distribute money raised by the National Lottery to support charities and voluntary and community groups throughout the UK and to UK agencies working abroad. www.communityfund.org.uk

Community Legal Service Partnerships:

Local networks of providers of legal services, supported by co-ordinated funding and delivering services to local communities based on identified priority need.

Community Planning:

The process where a local authority and partner organisations come together to plan, provide and promote the well-being of their communities. It promotes the active involvement of communities in the decisions on local services which affect people's lives including for example health, education, transport, the economy, safety and the environment.

Community Strategies:

The plans which local authorities are now required to prepare for improving the economic, environmental and social well being of local areas and by which the councils are expected to co-ordinate the actions of the public, private voluntary and community organisations that operate locally.

County Durham Economic Partnership

The sub regional partnership for Durham

COVER

Community and Voluntary Forum for the Eastern Region

CPRE

Council for the Protection of Rural England

CRA

Charity Regulation Authority (proposed new name for Charity Commission)

CRB

Criminal Records Bureau

CRE

Commission for Racial Equality

Creative Partnerships:

Organisations which provide a bridge between schools and cultural organisations, enabling every pupil to have the chance to work with creative professional and organisations to develop creative skills.

Creative Spaces Initiative:

A programme run by The Architectural Foundation. www.creativespaces.org.uk

Crime Concern:

A national crime reduction organisation and registered charity which provides advice and help to a wide range of professional and voluntary agencies to support their work in reducing crime and the fear of crime within local communities and runs over 60 projects across England and Wales. www.crimeconcern.org.uk

Crime Reduction Partnerships:

Statutory partnerships formed as a consequence of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which required the Police and local authorities and others to work together to tackle crime and disorder within a local authority area. www.crimereduction.gov.uk

Crime Reduction Programme:

A Government funded programme which consists of a series of diverse initiatives which have been shown to be effective at reducing crime or the fear of crime.

CURDS

Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle

CURS

Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham

CSV

Community Service Volunteers

CVS

Council for Voluntary Service

CWACNEE

Community Work Assessment Consortium for North East England

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DAT

Drugs Action Team

DCMS

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

DDA

Disability Discrimination Act

Deadweight:

A way of measuring the benefits of a programme which identifies the things that would have occurred anyway without the intervention of the programme (see additionality)

DEFRA

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Delegation levels:

The levels which determine who within an organisation is authorised to make certain decisions.

Delivery Plan:

A plan which sets out what a project or programme intends to achieve, when, where and at what cost.

DETR

Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (defunct)

Development Trusts:

A network of independent, not-for-profit, community-based organisations which are engaged in the economic, environmental & social regeneration of a defined area or community. www.dta.org.uk

DfEE

Department for Education and Employment (defunct)

DfES

Department for Education and Skills

DfT

Department for Transport

DIAL UK

Disability Information and Advice Line Services UK

Discount rate:

The annual percentage rate at which the value of money reduces over time to give a present day value.

Displacement:

The extent to which the effects of a project impact - positively or negatively - on surrounding areas

DoH

Department of Health

DPAS

Drugs Prevention Advisory Service

DPI

Drugs Prevention Initiative

DPTAC

Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee

DRC

Disability Rights Commission

DSC

Directory of Social Change

DTA

Development Trusts Association

DTI

Department for Trade and Industry

DTLR

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (defunct)

DWP

Department for Work and Pensions

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EAPN

European Anti Poverty Network

Early Excellence Centres:

Local centres which offer models of good practice in early years education in deprived areas

EAZ

Education Action Zone

EC

European Commission

EC

Experience Corps

Education Action Zones:

Local clusters of schools in deprived areas receiving special government grants to work together with others to raise education standards. www.standards.dfee.gov.uk

Employment Zones:

Areas where additional money is available to help the long term unemployed into work. www.dfee.gov.uk/employmentzones

English Cities Fund (ECF):

A scheme aimed at attracting private sector funds into neglected cities. ECF is a partnership between English Partnerships, developer AMEC and investors Legal & General. www.englishcitiesfund.co.uk

English Partnerships:

The key delivery agency in the government's new 'living communities' agenda to regenerate our towns, cities and rural areas. www.englishpartnerships.gov.uk

Enterprise Zones:

Sites for industrial development within older urban areas across GB with relief from paying business rates and relaxed planning restrictions. The last EZs will expire in 2006.

EOC

Equal Opportunities Commission

ERDF:

European Regional Development Fund: an EC structural fund which aims to reduce inequalities in socio-economic development between the regions in the Community, by supporting infrastructure projects, job-creation investments, local development and aid for SMEs. www.europa.eu.int

ES

Employment Service

ESF:

European Social Fund: supports activities that develop employability and human resources in five key areas: active labour market policies; equal opportunities; improving training and education and promoting lifelong learning; adaptability and entrepreneurship; improving the participation of women in the labour market. www.europa.eu.int

ESFVON

European Social Fund Voluntary Organisations Northern

ESOL

English for Speakers of Other Languages

ESP's

Economic and Social Partners

EU

European Union

European Objective 1 funding:

Objective 1 targets EU Structural Funds on areas that have an economy falling well behind the European average for wealth creation. http://europa.eu.int/

European Objective 2 funding:

Objective 2 targets EU structural funds on areas that have suffered through the decline of a major industry. http://europa.eu.int/

European Objective 3 funding

Objective 3 targets EU structural funds towards developing lifelong learning, supporting those at risk from exclusion in the workplace, promoting the role of women in the workforce and promoting adaptability and entrepreneurship.

Evaluation:

An assessment, after a project or programme has started, of the extent to which objectives have been achieved, how efficiently they have been achieved, and whether there are any lessons to be gained for the future

Excellence in Cities:

A programme to drive up standards in schools in 47 areas of England. www.standards.dfes.gov.uk

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Family Service Units:

A charity working with families in need with 19 family service units in inner cities in England and Scotland. www.fsu/org.uk

FAWN

Funding Advice Workers Network

FCWTG

Federation of Community Work Training Groups

FE

Further Education

FEFC

Further Education Funding Council

FIAC

Federation of Independent Advice Centres

FINE

Funding Information North East

Floor targets:

Deprivation will be tackled through the bending of main Departmental programmes such as the police and health services, to focus more specifically on the most deprived areas. Departments now have minimum targets to meet, which means that, for the first time, they will be judged on the areas where they are doing worst, and not just on averages. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

FOCAST

Federation of Community Organisations in South Tyneside

Forward strategy:

Arrangements, which will continue the process of renewal and development after funding from the renewal, programme stops. It is sometimes called an exit, continuation or succession strategy.

Foyer:

A place that provides homes, training and work opportunities for homeless young people. www.foyer.net

FRESA

Framework for Education and Skills Action

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Gap funding:

The main vehicle by which the government hopes to encourage developers to build on brownfield sites by providing aid for private companies to help them redevelop contaminated, derelict and disused sites that might not otherwise be profitable

GAYE

Give As You Earn

GNVQ

Greater National Vocational Qualification

GO-NE

Government Office North East

Government Offices for the Regions:

There are nine Government Offices, each working with regional partners and local people to help deliver the governments key aims at regional level. www.rcu.gov.uk

Groundwork:

A charity supporting regeneration through practical environmental work in deprived areas. www.groundwork.org.uk

GVOC

Gateshead Voluntary Organisations' Council

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HAZ

Health Action Zone

HDA

Health Development Agency

HE

Higher Education

Health Action Zones:

Partnerships between the NHS, local authorities, the voluntary and private sectors and local communities which represent a new approach to public health, linking health, regeneration, employment, education, housing and anti-poverty initiatives to respond to the needs of vulnerable groups and deprived communities. www.haznet.org.uk

Health Living Centres:

The Healthy Living Centre initiative is managed by the New Opportunities Fund (NOF). The programme targets areas and groups that represent the most disadvantaged sectors of the population. HLCs are expected to seek to influence the wider determinants of health, such as social exclusion, poor access to services, and social and economic aspects of deprivation which can contribute to inequalities in health.

Highland and Islands Enterprise:

The main economic development agency for the highlands and islands of Scotland. www.hie.co.uk

HIMP

Health Improvement and Modernisation Plan

HIP

Housing Investment Programme

HLC

Healthy Living Centre

HLF

Heritage Lottery Fund

HO

Home Office

Home Zones:

Residential streets in which the road space is shared between drivers and other road users, with the wider needs of residents being accommodated. They are about promoting quality of life and neighbourliness. www.local-transport.dft.gov.uk

Housing Action Trusts:

Six Government agencies set up to regenerate some of the most deprived local authority estates in England. http://housing.odpm.gov.uk

Housing Corporation:

The Government body that regulates and funds housing associations in England. www.housingcorp.gov.uk

Housing Management Renewal Areas:

Bring together local authorities and other agencies in areas where the housing market is thought to be failing.

Housing Pathfinder Partnerships:

These were announced in May 2002 and are being formed in Manchester, Salford, Burnley, Rochdale, Stoke, Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool and Hull. They involve private sector partners and funding of £2.66m is available for each Pathfinder.

HR

Human Resources

HRD

Human Resource Development

HSE

Health and Safety Executive

Human Neighbourhood Project:

Run by the Human City Institute. Project workers support local groups in planning, creating and acting to get their own project underway.

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ICFM

Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers (now Institute of Fundraising)

ICT:

Information and Communications Technology

IiP

Investors in People

ILP

Independent Living Project

IMD:

Index of Multiple Deprivation
DETR published the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000 (IMD) for England on 22 August 2000. This replaces, and improves significantly on, the Index of Local Deprivation 1998. The IMD uses a broader range of data sets and more up to date figures to produce a series of deprivation indices at both ward and local authority district levels. It provides a guide to the extent of various types of deprivation within areas but does not tell us to what extent individual households are subject to multiple deprivation. www.go-wm.gov.uk

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC):

A US not-for-profit organisation founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. It is helping the government in England develop inner city growth strategies. www.icic.org

IPPR

Institute for Public Policy Research

IRF

Integrated Regional Framework

ISBN

International Standard Book Number

ISP

Internet Service Provider

IYV

International Year of Volunteers

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JRCT

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

JRF

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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LA

Local Authority

LASA

London Advice Services Alliance

LDA

Local Development Agency

LEA

Local Education Authority

Leakage:

The extent to which the activity proposed benefits people outside the target area or group.

Learning and Skills Council:

the Government agency now responsible for adult training in England. www.lsc.gov.uk

LETS

Local Exchange and Trading System

Leverage:

The additional money that a programme causes others to contribute.

LGA

Local Government Association

LGB

Lesbian Gay and Bisexual

LIF

Local Initiative Fund

Life long learning

The continuous development of skills and knowledge to enhance quality of life and employment prospects. www.lifelonglearning.co.uk

LLSC

Local Learning and Skills Council

Local Agenda 21

Strategies prepared by local authorities to promote sustainable development. www.scream.co.uk/la21

Local Public Service Agreement:

Agreements between individual local authorities and the Government setting out the authority's commitment to deliver specific improvements in performance, and the Government's commitment to reward these improvements. The agreement also records what the Government will do to help the authority achieve the improved performance. www.local-regions.odpm.gov.uk

Local Strategic Partnerships:

New overarching partnerships of stakeholders who will develop ways to involve local people in shaping the future of their neighbourhood in how services are provided. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/la21

Locality Budgeting:

The process of developing and co-ordinating budgets between all government organisations relevant to community and neighbourhood needs in a particular area.

London Development Agency:

The economic development arm of the Greater London Authority. www.lda.gov.uk

LRN

London Regeneration Network

LSC

Learning and Skills Council

LSC

Legal Services Commission

LSP

Local Strategic Partnership

LTP

Local Transport Plan

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Mainstreaming :

Realigning the allocation of mainstream resources - such as the police and health services - to better target the most deprived areas. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/regeneration

Market failure:

A situation where barriers prevent the normal and efficient operation of a local economy. These may be information barriers, where local people don't know about job vacancies nearby, or the negative impact that high crime levels have on firms and workers locating to a particular area.

Match funding:

A term used to express a grant of money that must be "matched" along with another grant of money. For either grant to be paid there must be an agreement in place confirming both grants have been approved.

MEP

Member of European Parliament

Milestones:

key events with dates, marking stages in the progress of a project or programme.

MIS

Management Information Systems

Monitoring:

Regular collection and analysis of input, output and outcome data, along with information concerning the problems being tackled.

MP

Member of Parliament

Multipliers:

The additional or second level effects of a programme.

MV

Millennium Volunteers

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NACAB

National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux

NACRO

National Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders

NACVS

National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service

NAVB

National Association of Volunteer Bureaux (now known as Volunteer Development England)

NAWO

National Alliance of Women's Organisations

NCBV

National Coalition for Black Volunteering

NCV

National Centre for Volunteering

NCVCCO

National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations

NCVO

National Council for Voluntary Organisations

NCVYS

National Council for Voluntary Youth Services

NDC

New Deal for Communities

NDC

National Disability Council

NDPB

Non Departmental Public Body (Quangos)

NEA

National Energy Action

NEA

North East Assembly

NECASS

North East Consortium on Asylum Seeker Support

NEF

New Economics Foundation

Neighbourhood Management Programme:

A way of encouraging stakeholders to work with service providers to help improve the quality of services delivered in deprived neighbourhoods. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/regeneration

Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chests:

A total of £50 million central Government money in England over three years 2001-4 for small grants to community groups.

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund:

Provides public services and communities in the 88 poorest local authority districts with extra funds to tackle deprivation. The original £900 million pot has been extended for a further 3 years and has been increased by a further £975 million. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

Neighbourhood Support Fund:

Government grants of £10,000 upwards to community groups to enable them to re-engage disaffected young people. www.dfes.gov.uk

Neighbourhood Wardens:

A Neighbourhood Warden provides a uniformed, semi-official presence in a residential area with the aim of improving quality of life. Wardens can promote community safety, assist with environmental improvements and housing management, and also contribute to community development. They may patrol, provide concierge duties or act as 'super caretakers' and support vulnerable residents. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

NEOCN

North East Open College Network

NESEP

North East Social Enterprise Partnership

NESIN

North East Social Inclusion Network

NEVI

North East Voluntary Infrastructure

New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal

The Government's action plan for neighbourhood renewal in England, produced by the Social Exclusion Unit in 2001.

New Deal for Communities:

A Government programme to regenerate 39 very deprived areas across England over a ten-year period. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

New Opportunities Fund (NOF):

One of the National Lottery funds granting awards to health, education and the environment projects.

NFP

Not For Profit

NGO

Non Government Organisation

NHS

National Health Service

NHSE

National Health Service Executive

NI

National Insurance

NIACE

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education

NISW

National Institute for Social Work

NLC

National Lottery Commission (Lottery Regulator)

NLCB

National Lottery Charities Board - now known as Community Fund

NOCN

National Open College Network

NOF

New Opportunities Fund

North East Assembly

The partnership body which brings together the Local Authorities, MP's, MEP's and regional stakeholders to help develop and promote, at the regional level, the economic, social and environmental well being of the people of the North East of England. The Assembly has formal responsibility for scrutinising the activities of One NorthEast.

NOS

National Occupational Standard

NRF

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

NRS

Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy

NRU

Neighbourhood Renewal Unit

NSNR

National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal

NSP

Northumberland Strategic Partnership

NTO

National Training Organisation

NVQ

National Vocational Qualification

NYA

National Youth Agency

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OCN

Open College Network

ODPM

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM):

The Government department responsible for neighbourhood renewal, housing and urban policy.The ODPM includes the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, the Regional Co-ordination Unit and the Social Exclusion Unit. www.odpm.gov.uk

OFSTED

Office for Standards in Education

OFT

Office of Fair Trading

OHS

Occupational Health Service

OISC

Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner

ONE

One NorthEast

One NorthEast

The regional Development Agency for the North East including Durham Northumberland Tyne and Wear and Tees Valley. www.onenortheast.co.uk

OU

Open University

Outputs and Outcomes:

Outputs measure what was directly produced by the regeneration programme, such as additional training places or more houses. Outcomes measure the longer term changes in an area that were brought about by the regeneration programme.

OVN

One Voice Network

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Policy Action Team (Social Exclusion Unit)

Partnership Investment Programme:

A scheme of public sector support for reclamation of brownfield land. www.urban.odpm.gov.uk

Partnerships:

Partnerships vary greatly in how they are established and resourced and how they operate. There are no defining features for partnerships but they should bring together representatives from different sectors and different communities of interest to agree and work towards common goals.  Organisations which bring together representatives of those who have an interest in the local area such as local authorities, health trusts, businesses, voluntary organisations, and residents groups.

PAYE

Pay As You Earn

PC

Patients' Council

PCG

Primary Care Group

PCO

Primary Care Organisation

PCT

Primary Care Trust

PDF

Partnership Development Fund (joint fund administered by ACRE, NACVS and VDE)

PDF

Portable Document Format

PF

Patients' Forum

PIU

Performance and Innovation Unit, Cabinet Office - now renamed as Strategy Unit

PPI

Patient and Public Involvement

PQASSO

Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations

Project appraisal:

The assessment of particular projects to make sure that they provide value for money and that they will tackle the problem to be addressed.

Projects:

The individual components or elements of an overall programme or scheme.

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Public Service Agreements

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R&D

Research and Development

RAISE

Regional Action and Involvement South East

RAWM

Regional Action West Midlands

RCC

Rural Community Council

RCU

Regional Co-ordination Unit (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)

RDA

Regional Development Agency

REC

Racial Equality Council

Regional Chambers:

Regional chambers have been established in each of the eight English regions (outside London), consisting of representatives from local authorities and other sectors. Their role is to support RDAs' regional economic strategies. www.regions.odpm.gov.uk

Regional Development Agencies:

These are the nine Government agencies set up in 1999. To co-ordinate regional economic development and regeneration, enable the English regions to improve their relative competitiveness and reduce the imbalances that exists within and between regions. The regional Development agency for County Durham is One NorthEastwww.local-regions.odpm.gov.uk

Registered Social Landlords

Landlords of social housing that are registered with the Housing Corporation. Most are housing associations but they also include trusts, co-operatives and companies.

RES

Regional Economic Strategy (One NorthEast)

RICS

Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors

RIP

Regional Information Partnership

RNIB

Royal National Institute for the Blind

RNID

Royal National Institute for Deaf people

RPG

Regional Planning Guidance

RVSN

Regional Voluntary Sector Network

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SBS

Small Business Service

SCCD

Standing Conference on Community Development

Scottish Enterprise:

The main Government agency for economic development in Scotland. www.regions.odpm.gov.uk

Scottish Executive:

The devolved government for Scotland. It is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport and manages an annual budget of around £20 billion. www.scotland.gov.uk

SCRI

Sustainable Cities Research Institute (Northumbria University)

Section 106 agreements (s.75 in Scotland):

Negotiated agreements to provide, for example, low cost housing or community facilities in return for the granting of planning permission.

SEEDA

South East England Development Agency

Sensitivity analysis:

An analysis of the effects of varying the projected values of variables, e.g. different values might be given for unemployment rates to project the effect of the differences on a local economy

SEU

Social Exclusion Unit

SHA

Strategic Health Authority

Single Pot/ Programme

The regeneration funds available for distribution by the Regional Development Agencies.

Single Regeneration Budget (SRB):

The Single Regeneration Budget programme aims to enhance the employment prospects, education and skills of local people and to tackle the needs of communities in the most deprived areas. www.odpm.gov.uk

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SMART

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time related

SME

Small or Medium Sized Enterprise (defined as up to 350 employees)

SMP

Statutory Maternity Pay

Social Entrepreneurs:

The equivalent of business entrepreneurs, but operating in the social, not-for profit sector. They aim to seek new and innovative solutions to social problems.

Social Exclusion:

The Government has defined social exclusion as being a shorthand label for what can happen when individuals or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health and family breakdown. It can also have a wider meaning which encompasses the exclusion of people from the normal exchanges, practices and rights of society. www.socialexclusionunit.gov.uk

Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIPs):

Government supported partnership organisations in deprived areas of Scotland.

SORP

Statement of Recommended Practice (related to accountancy practice for charities)

SPD

Single Programme Document

Sport Action Zones:

A series of areas in which sport is used to reduce social exclusion and promote community development and regeneration. www.sportengland.org

SRA

Strategic Rail Authority

SRB

Single Regeneration Budget

SSC

Sector Skills Council

SSD

Social Services Department (Local Authority)

SSE

School for Social Entrepreneurs

SSP

Statutory Sick Pay

SSP

Sub-regional Strategic Partnership

Street Warden Scheme:

Provide highly visible uniformed patrols in town and village centres, public areas and neighbourhoods. Street Wardens are similar to Neighbourhood Wardens, but their emphasis will be on caring for the physical appearance of the area, tackling environmental problems such as litter, graffiti and dog fouling and helping to deter anti-social behaviour; reduce the fear of crime; and foster social inclusion. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk

SU

Strategy Unit

Cabinet Office - formerly Performance and Innovation Unit

Substitution:

This happens where a firm substitutes one activity for a similar activity, e.g. recruiting a different job applicant, in order to take advantage of public sector assistance.

Sure Start:

A Government scheme which aims to improve the health and well-being of families and children before and from birth, so children are ready to flourish when they go to school by setting up local Sure Start programmes to improve services for families with children under four and spreading good practice learned from local programmes to everyone involved in providing services for young children. www.surestart.gov.uk

Sustainable Communities Programme:

A three year partnership between EnCams, Forward Scotland and the Sustainable Northern Ireland Programme which is testing ways in which communities can be supported to improve the quality of life in their neighbourhood. The programme aims to increase understanding of how people can become more involved in sustainable development at a local level, including how to balance social, economic and environmental demands. www.encams.org

Sustainable Development:

Activity which achieves mutually reinforcing economic, social and environmental benefits without compromising the needs of future generations.

SWOT

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

Synergy:

Added value arising from the working together of two or more organisations.

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TEC

Training and Enterprise Council (now LSC)

TNA

Training Needs Analysis

TPAS

Tenants Participation Advisory Service

TSO

The Stationery Office (formerly HMSO)

Town Centre Managers:

Manage the public realm of town centres so that they are attractive, safe and accessible to all. They work towards improving the competitiveness and image of towns and cities and organise partnerships between businesses, local authorities and the community.

Towns and Cities: Partners in Urban Renaissance initiative:

A scheme involving 24 partner towns in England, organised by the ODPM's Urban Policy Unit and URBED which aims to identify ways to bring about positive change in inner city areas (sometimes called the Working with Towns and Cities Initiative). www.urban.odpm.gov.uk

Training and Enterprise Councils:

Government agencies, now disbanded, set up in England and Wales in 1990 to take primary responsibility for training provision. The local Learning and Skills Councils have taken on some of their roles.

TUC

Trades Union Congress

TWEDP

Tyne & Wear Employability Development Partnership 

TWP

TyneWear Partnership

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UfI

University for Industry

URL

Uniform Resource Locator (for access to the internet)

Urban Forum:

An umbrella body for community and voluntary groups with interests in urban and regional policy, especially regeneration. www.surestart.gov.uk

Urban Regeneration Companies:

Not-for-profit companies being set up by local authorities, Regional Development Agencies English Partnerships and other partners to promote development in less prosperous area of English cities by engaging businesses in agreed physical and economic regeneration strategies

Urban Village:

Part of an urban area which is has an attractive mix of homes, shops, restaurants, employers and which attracts people to live and work there.

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VA

Voluntary Action

VAT

Value Added Tax

VB

Volunteer Bureau

VCS

Voluntary and Community Sector

VDA

Voluntary Development Agency

VDE

Volunteer Development England (formerly National Association of Volunteer Bureaux)

VODA

North Tyneside Voluntary Organisations Development Agency

VONNE

Voluntary Organisations' Network North East

VSNTO

Voluntary Sector National Training Organisation

VSNW

Voluntary Sector North West

VSSC

Voluntary Sector Skills Council

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WAI

Web Accessibility Initiative

WEA

Workers' Education Association

Welsh Development Agency:

The main economic development agency in Wales.

WEN

Women's Environment Network

WIN

Women into the Network

Working Together Learning Together:

A training programme run by Communities Scotland. www.wltnet.org.uk

WRC

Women's Resoure Centre

WRVS

Women's Royal Voluntary Service

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YHRF

Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Forum

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