"All in this Together 3: coproducing resilient communities" event - Cardiff 26th September 2012

1. ‘What can Coproduction produce..
… using the C2, 7 steps ‘from isolation to
transformation?’
“We thought we were doing up houses…
we were actually doing up lives!”
Hazel Stuteley O.B.E., R.G.N.& Dr Jonathan Stead F.R.C.G.P.
Programme Directors Connecting Communities C2, PCMD, University of Exeter

2. Beacon Estate, largest and poorest in South West 1995 – 1999 outcomes included:
All levels of crime reduced 50%. Employment levels up 71%
Improvement to over 1000 homes. Unemployment reduced 71%
Child protection rates reduced 61%. Asthma rate reduced 50%
Educational attainment improved 100%. Post natal depression down 48%
Best of all complete rebirth of community spirit !!

3. Improvements to over 1000 Beacon
Estate properties

4. So what’s the link between strong, self-managing
communities and health & social well-being?
Compelling evidence that:
• Failing to manage your environment causes chronic
stress leading to poor health behaviours
• Anti-social behaviour causes ill- health
• Chaotic early life changes way the body functions and
the brain develops
• Having no sense of influence or control in decision
making about where you live, harms health
• FACT…residents, supported by service providers, can
lead and sustain transformative community change &
improve their own health
• This is also highly cost-effective for all organisations

5. Step 1
“Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.”
Margaret Mead
US anthropologist (1901 - 1978)

6. 9 mums and 23 children from Beacon Estate Cornwall , launch the 2000 NHS plan
in London and tell Health Ministers how they have turned their lives around and
improved their health , wellbeing and educational attainment of their children

7. C2 CONNECTING COMMUNITIES
A 7- step evidence-based model
THE CONCEPT IS SIMPLE
C2 brings residents within a target
neighbourhood together with
service providers to work together
as equals, forming a self-managing
resident-led, operational partnership.
Their joint aim makes neighbourhoods
better places in which to live and work.
RESULT….transformation of place,
health status & engagement.

8. ‘ Does what it says on tin’: connects
communities in three ways:
1. Within themselves – networks and
cooperation amongst local residents.
2. With local service providers and public
agencies – building a parallel community
of interest amongst the front-line
workers and others.
3. With other communities – getting and
giving inspiration directly from one place
to another.

9. Co-creating receptive context for
transformative change in which residents lead.
Enabling key factors :
• New relationships Emergent Results
• Trust & respect • Community self-
• Interdependence organisation
• Active listening • Increased social
networks
• Working/thinking • Health creating, cost-
differently effective initiatives
• Connectivity • Dispersed leadership
• Co-learning • New health- seeking
• Shared agenda behaviours
• Visibility • Long term culture &
• Think big/start mind-set shift
small
Creation of new order by recasting interface
between residents and service providers

12. Only meeting place for residents…..no community hub.

14. Wandsworth
HELP
Listening
Event, 2010

15. Wandsworth Council subsequently invested £140k to restore Community
Centre to be managed by residents, offering wide range of health
enhancing activities for all ages.

16. Exchange Visit
New Cross Gate

17. Operation Goodnight
A voluntary young peoples curfew during summer of 2008.
Anti social behaviour dropped by 67% and it brought the
community together

18. Green Fingers Redruth North
Getting disaffected young people back in full time education and
employment whilst also improving environment of the estate

19. First cohort of 20, 10 achieved NVQ level 1 in horticulture,12 moved on to level 2,
16 went into FT employment, 14 passed First Aid Cert.,12 areas of open space
were improved and 130 individual gardens maintained for elderly and infirm.

22. CAMBORNE COMMUNITY DANCE TEAM……
transforming community through dance
(named after their post-code)

23. EARLY EXCHANGE VISIT AT EDEN WITH YOUNG PEOPLE FROM BRIERSFIELD

25. 1995-2011 Over 1000 young people engaged. Results inc:
•35% increase in Educ. Attainment . Truancy levels reduced 80%
•School behaviour incidents down 90%. 60% reduction inhaler use
•Evidence of large scale health behaviour change eg reduced obesity
rates & smoking, self-harm, fruit consumption increased.
•Employment and FE opportunities. Community ASB levels down.
•At least 6 Y.P. prevented entering CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

29. The Queen honours outstanding volunteer group in
Camborne with prestigious Award
The TR14ers Community Dance Group from Camborne has
been announced as one of 130 winners of The Queen’s Award
for Voluntary Service, the MBE for groups of volunteers who
work in their local community for the benefit of others.
June 2011

30. Step 4
“ Health Equity - if we use what we
have, we have what we need.”
Dr Edgar Cahn 2011

31. TT
‘The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes’
Marcel Proust

32. ‘It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds’
Samuel Adam 1775

33. Machine Complex adaptive system
• Hierarchical • Living agents
• Broken down into smaller • Built on relationships
parts • Ever-changing
• Certainty • Built on conversations
• Evidence base
• Issues emerge
• Protocols
• Toolkits • Unpredictable
• Check-lists • Operates best at edge of chaos
• Negative feedback loops • Positive feedback loops
• Power over • Power with
• Transactional • Transformational

34. Dr Julian Tudor Hart
GP Glyncorrwg, West Glamorgan

35. Trevithick's "Penydarren"

36. Step Zero
“Go to the people, live amongst them, start with what they have, build with them, and when the deed is
done, the mission accomplished, of the best leadership, the people will say, “we have done it for
ourselves.”
Lao Tze (600BC)