Urban Challenge

Urban Challenge’s  Mission is to enable the development of stable, thriving, communities with the capacity to plan and manage lasting improvements to their quality of life

 

Our aims are:

  • To develop the capacity and skills of socially and economically deprived communities in Lincolnshire, making them better able to identify and meet their own needs and so participate more fully in society

  • To engage in social regeneration activities to improve the quality of life for people living within Lincolnshire through:

  • Capacity building - equipping people with the skills and   knowledge to take an active role in regeneration issues and  enhance their own personal development

  • Community economic development - helping individuals and groups regenerate their community through developing sustainable enterprises

  •  To reduce crime and the fear of crime in Lincoln through:

  • Working to the Lincoln Crime and Disorder Reduction Strategy

  • Working with partners to initiate, co-ordinate and monitor crime reduction projects

  • To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community including the  relief of poverty, advancement of education and such other purposes as the trustees shall think fit

Urban Challenge acts as a catalyst, attracting resources for our key areas of work:

  • Working with local communities to identify and agree solutions to problems of urban deprivation and community safety

  • Investing in targeted local community regeneration and community safety initiatives

  • Enabling individuals and groups to acquire the skills and capacity for sustainable development

  • Co-ordinating the work of partner organisations to maximise the benefits to the community

Contact Urban Challenge

Helen Kearsley-Cree, Urban Challenge, c/o City Hall, Beaumont Fee, Lincoln. LN1 1DJ

Tel: 01522 873454     E-mail: urbanchallenge@volunteercentrelincoln.org.uk

Urban Challenge is the organisation with the strategy and Volunteer Centre Lincoln is one of our initiatives.

PARTNER OPPORTUNITIES                                                          Community Lincs  -  PEOPLE...PLACES...PURPOSE            

Rural Officer - Parish Planning / Community Engagement

Maternity Cover /Secondment - 2 Days per Week until May 2009

Since 1927 Community Lincs has been supporting rural communities and voluntary groups across the county.  Community Lincs aims to provide the advice, training and funding that communities need to help them identify their own priorities and work out their own solutions.  By working in partnership with communities and agencies that provide services to them we believe we can help them to remain vibrant and sustainable into the future.

Are you ready for a change?  Would you like to learn more about the voluntary and community sector and work with rural comunities?

Community Lincs has an exciting short term opening, working in a rewarding and varied role, you will have the opportunity to develop and use a wide range of professional skills.

Full support and training will be provided.  Immediate start.

Closing Date: 31st July 2008

For further information or an application pack please contact:                                     Amy Nichols, Operation Manager                                                                               Community Lincs                                                                                                          The Old Mart                                                                                                                Church Lane                                                                                                        Sleaford                                                                                                                        NG34 7DF                                                                                      

E mail:   amy.nichols@communitylincs.com                                                                          Website:www.communitylincs.com        

Community Lincs strives to demostrate equality of opportuniy and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.