May 6, 2020
New! Making it Happen website - Sept 2022
https://making-it-happen.org.uk/
For info on all of the Making it Happen projects across the region.
Making it Happen
Is about discovering, celebrating and building on the positive things in local neighbourhoods. Community Development Workers will support communities to come together to make the most of the opportunities that exist to create positive change.
Please contact Su Barnicoat [email protected] for more details
Also on facebook https://www.facebook.com/su.mih.796
Getting Support
Have you got a good idea to make positive change in your neighbourhood? What do you need to put in place to make it happen?
https://making-it-happen.org.uk/your-ideas/
Let’s get started!
Making it Happen Community Development Workers can support you to turn your good idea into reality. From listening to your idea, connecting you up with others who feel the same, signposting you to training or putting you in touch with people with the right expertise, resources or information about funding, they can provide as much or as little support as you need. Give us a call 01424 444010 or fill out the online form to tell us about your idea and to find out more about how we can support you, including information about Making it Happen funding opportunities.
https://making-it-happen.org.uk/your-ideas/send-us-your-ideas/
The MiH project
How does Making it Happen work?
Making it Happen aims to build the confidence and capability of people to come together in their neighbourhoods to create positive change and to tackle local issues that matter to them most.
Community Development Workers will be active in neighbourhoods – in community centres, on streets, in schools – helping people discover their own strengths to connect with the positive things already happening and with others who share the same interests, and to help people see that everybody has something to bring to their community.
A key principle is to not do for individuals and communities what they can do for themselves. Community Development Workers are there to lend-a-hand and provide guidance to people to develop their ideas.
Through strengths based and community driven change, the main aims of Making it Happen are to increase social connection through neighbour-to-neighbour relationship building and to improve communities’ capacity to come together to influence the places that they live.
By discovering a community’s strengths it is also possible to build a fuller picture of a whole community and not just the problems and needs. This re-balancing will help other agencies to better understand the factors that influence healthy communities.
Who is delivering Making it Happen?
The 5½ year project is funded by East Sussex County Council Public Health and is being delivered in a partnership led by Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) with 3VA, Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA), Rother Voluntary Action (RVA) and Action in Rural Sussex (AiRS).
Grants
The Making it Happen project is offering small sparks grants to support people and groups across East Sussex to turn good ideas into reality, or to support a great project or group to become stronger. Small sparks grants can be used to fund lots of things, from equipment to support volunteers to starting a book club! The possibilities are endless...
contact [email protected] for more details
