On The Edge: New Approaches to Community Heritage

Submitted by Suzie Thomas on Thu, 2010-08-26 16:13
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Gloucester City Council, Heritage Service and partners are organising a one-day seminar on Friday 17th September 17th about community heritage and engagement with groups at risk of social exclusion.

Embedding community heritage projects within existing Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) social care programmes is key to the success of such heritage projects. Heritage is not and cannot be a stand-alone solution to deep-rooted social problems; what it offers the NGO is an additional option to consider when developing their engagement strategies. Many groups at risk of social exclusion are not part of national or regional programmes designed to address their issues, the individuals within them are at particular risk. The needs of such groups are the same as those represented by NGOs, but their ability to initiate anti-exclusion programmes is lessened. On the Edge poster This seminar aims to provide a platform for people involved in the provision of community heritage to come together to discuss current practices, thoughts and projects with practitioners within the fields of community engagement and equalities and representatives from various community groups with the aim to develop and disseminate new ideas and initiatives within community engagement with heritage.

Professionals, all types of service providers from the heritage and social care sectors, by being better informed can provide better service; the better informed public and service-users will be able to contribute and develop their own ideas/projects with professional support and guidance from an integrated heritage/social care service.

It is also hoped that the seminar will help develop self-confidence within heritage and social care professionals to engage with new methodologies and strategies, and through increased self-confidence create new, wider social programmes, which will be of benefit to their service users.

Seminar details here.

Project Partners:

Gloucester City Council, Heritage Service Gloucestershire County Council, Community & Adult Care Directorate Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company Gloucester City Centre Community Partnership Council for British Archaeology

For further information about this event and to check for spaces, contact Austin Ainsworth, Gloucester City Council, Heritage Service - email: austin.ainsworth@gloucester.gov.uk, telephone: 01452 396165.

This event has sponsorship from CBA Challenge Funding.