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Freestyle Community Projects has contributed to various community development initiatives in this past year. Freestyle Community Projects has benefited the community by providing 16 self employed opportunities for local people who worked with us, including: local activists, artists, and facilitators who we collaborated with. We have also created 30 volunteer opportunities throughout the year, a mixture of ad hoc and longer term positions. 1. Community organising: We enabled communities to form around shared interests. This included Holgate alley regeneration (100 visitors) and facilitating the Paradox collective in central Middlesbrough. Between Out and About and Urban Rebirth, we also co-produced resources to help wider networks of Teessiders to embrace wellness and celebrate community assets. We sought commissions to carry out research with people in the local community to inform services and we developed Deep Routes, a training program covering various aspects of community development and organisational change. 2. Running a community hub. The Exchange Community Hub in Middlesbrough Town Centre. The community hub hosted: public living rooms (agenda free coffee mornings) creative workshops for adults and families a ‘library of things’ including: toys, DIY items, cooking equipment, camping supplies and more. Approximately 2000 visitors benefitted from these services. We also rented out the space to other community groups/activists. The activities provided at our community hub have supported people during the cost of living crisis. We provided events free of charge or on a pay as you feel basis. Our public living rooms and creative workshops were able to function as a warm spaces during colder winter months where visitors could access free hot drinks and snacks, these activities continued during spring and summer providing opportunities to socialise and make connections, and in the case of creative workshops, providing a free space for families to take part in art or play games. The library of things has benefited the community by providing access to affordable equipment and toys, in particular community groups and activists have benefited from access to low cost or free of charge equipment. 3. Hosting: Facilitating extensive community conversations helped us form a picture of what residents feel is needed for positive change in Teesside. Our first large scale conversation included participation by approximately 1600 people. This culminated in infrastructure support for the Middlesbrough Poverty Truth Commission; a systems thinking approach to poverty, focused on the vital importance of lived experience. 4. Arts: We facilitated community around arts and encouraged arts participation, learning and expression through arts and creatively improving wellbeing and health. These activities had approximately 450 visitors. We brought communities together around creative aims such as: families playing and being creative together and adult groups around creativity to reduce isolation and creating for wellbeing and health. We also worked with outdoor spaces to create group art work that improved the local area.
Community involvement is central to the way we work. Many of our projects centre on co-production, where FreeStyle workers and the people who attend groups, even civic leaders, collaborate to produce a shared objective. Wherever we act, we aim to build participatory projects, genuinely reflecting the voice of the community it serves. We also engage in follow-up conversations. We worked with people in our groups and local communities to inform our work e.g. asking vulnerable people what services they would like to see. Feedback forms and surveys suggest people value what we provide. We’re told that our public living rooms are the only chance to have a conversation with others. Throughout the year we facilitated a series of community conversations involving stakeholders across our local systems. These drilled down into the potential for community change and the ambitions people have of future interventions. Some 1600 participated last year, leading to independent activity as well as some great FreeStyle projects. These include art projects, development of placemaking cards, supporting an independent Poverty Truth Commission (systems, service adaptation), and new partnership work with civic groups. Volunteers recruited from people who attend different groups, as volunteers can attend meetings and give feedback - -community reporting
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
15 April 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Andrew Falconer
Status: Director