Agenda item

Haringey Community Gold Update, including mini documentary

As part of Haringey Community Gold’s 3-year journey, our young people pulled together a mini-documentary to highlight the work, and celebrate the successes of the programme. On Wednesday 15 September 2021, the team showcased the film at Cineworld in Wood Green, and you can now watch from www.haringey.gov.uk/hcg.

 

 

Minutes:

The Partnership received a report which provided an update regarding the Haringey Community Gold programme 2019-21, approved by Cabinet in March 2019. It set out progress made in the delivery of commitments made against the Young People at Risk Action Plan and in terms of governance arrangements. The Partnership were asked to note that Greater London Authority funding comes to an end on 31st December 2021. In addition to the report, the Partnership were also shown a mini-documentary ‘Our Impact’ which provided a number of testimonies from young people about the impact of Community Gold on them. The longer version of the documentary was premiered at the cinema in Wood Green and was available to watch at the link provided on the agenda. The report and the video were introduced by Eduardo Araujo, Senior Tottenham Community Safety Manager, as set out in the agenda pack at pages 17-20.

 

The following arose in discussion of this item:

  1. The Partnership commended the video short as well as the screening event that took place.
  2. The Partnership also praised the work that Haringey Community Gold had done, suggesting that gains from employment and training would percolate into wider areas across the community. The Partnership noted with concern the fact that funding was due to end at the end of the year, and it was suggested that every effort should be made to keep this going.
  3. The Chair advised partners that she had a meeting with the VRU and the Deputy Mayor of policing to urge them to continue funding the programme, as well as promulgating the value of early intervention work in this area more generally.
  4. Assurance was sought from officers around what work had been done in anticipation of the looming funding deadline. Officers were also asked to comment on the key areas to highlight and key areas to take forward.  In response, officers advised that a number of evaluations had been carried out on the successful contributions that the programme had made to the community.  Officers set out that one of the key lasting benefits was the links made across the community and across the Council and partners which had allowed the programme to flourish and had demonstrated the value of cross-partners working. It was also noted that the youth outreach work was seen as being pivotal and would be something that everyone involved would like to see continue. Officers agreed to share the academic evaluation of the programme with the Cabinet Member For Children, Families and Early years. (Action: Eubert Malcom).
  5. Officers added that there had also been some key learning points around smaller partnership working for future bids, as well as how to work with the private sector; a framework had been developed to support this.
  6. In response to a question around whether links had been developed with specific groups such as Turkish/Kurdish groups and Somali groups vis-a-vis ongoing funding from the Mayor’s Office, officers advised that cultural engagement with specific groups had taken place and that the key element to doing this successfully was around specific recruitment and commissioning of services to engage with those groups directly.

 

RESOLVED

Noted

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