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Partnership

Below is a list of agencies and websites that are involved in the process of regeneration.

 

Academy for Sustainable Communities

The national centre for delivering the skills and knowledge needed to create strong, prosperous and sustainable communities.

www.asc.org.uk

 

BECON

BECON is the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary and community organisations network for the North East.

www.becon.org.uk

 

BURA

The British Urban Regeneration Association, (BURA), facilitates the exchange of ideas, experience and solutions within regeneration.

www.bura.org.uk

 

Community Development Foundation

CDF helps communities achieve greater control over the decisions affecting their lives.

www.cdf.org.uk

 

Community Foundation (serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland)

An organisation that aims to build stronger communities by encouraging local giving offering cost-effective ways for donors to make a long-term difference to the causes close to their heart.

www.communityfoundation.org.uk/home

 

Department of Communities and Local Government

The Government department charged with creating prosperous and cohesive communities, offering a safe, healthy and sustainable environment for all.

www.communities.gov.uk

 

Development Trusts Association (DTA)

The DTA is a network of community practitioners that help people set up development trusts and help existing trusts learn from each other to work more effectively.  The DTA also influence government and others at national and local level, to build support and investment for this movement.

www.dta.org.uk 

 

Government Office North East

Working with regional partners and local people to maximise competitiveness and prosperity in the region, and to support integrated policies for social inclusion.

www.gone.gsi.gov.uk

 

Ignite

The North East Centre for Excellence for Sustainable Communities.

www.ignite-ne.com

 

National Planning Aid Unit

Planning Aid provides free, independent and professional town planning advice and support to communities and individuals who cannot afford to pay planning consultant fees.

www.planningaid.rtpi.org.uk

 

One North East

The Regional Development Agency for the North East

www.onenortheast.co.uk

 

North East Social Capital Forum

Social capital describes the formal and info rmal networks that people rely on to get by in life and the shared values that arise from those networks.  The Forum aims to raise awareness of social capital as a practical tool and identify good practice in the North East.

www.ignite-ne.com/ignite/NorthEastSocialCapitalForum-sig.nsf?OpenDatabase

 

North East Social Enterprise Partnership (NESEP)

A development agency for social enterprise in the North East with the aim of fostering strong and vibrant social enterprises across the region

www.nesep.co.uk

 

Renewal.net

The national website for neighbourhood renewal containing links to and documents on guidance and good practice.

www.renewal.net

 

Sustainable Cities Research Institute

Sustainable Cities Research Institute aims to inform policy making in the area of sustainable urban development; to contribute to enhancing community involvement in developing the sustainable city; the development of innovatory approaches, particularly in the implementation of holistic and integrated policies together with dissemination of existing and evolving best practice.

www.sustainable-cities.org.uk

 

Urban Forum

A national membership charity for voluntary and community groups involved in regeneration.

www.urbanforum.org.uk

 

VONNE

The Voluntary Organisations Network for the North East

www.vonne.co.uk

 

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