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Supporting Communities … Rural Advocacy… Developing Solutions
1st March 2012
South Green,
Mattishall

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Norfolk RCC
Supporting Communities
Rural Advocacy
Developing Solutions
Today is about all three…

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Thinking… Fuel
• Bulk Oil buying
Level of 2010 2011
• Community based
savings
• If you order 2,000
litres a year in Average 8% 11%
average you would
have saved £120
Lowest 4% 7%
Highest 16% 16%

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Overview of SMART
• EU Grundtvig project
• Learning Project
• Netherlands, Iceland, Portugal
• Amazing the similarities in rural issues
• Looking at how rural communities can
become more sustainable

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• Sustainability is
more than one
thing
• Egan wheel
• Going beyond
excellent individual
projects to a
holistic approach

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A more local context
• Communities want to do more things
– 96% wanted to live in a vibrant community
• The public sector is asking for more from
communities

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A more local context
• Challenge of volunteering/involvement
– Issue for 70-80%
• Challenge of community activity
– 54% said they did live in a vibrant community
– Majority who didn’t saw no likely change
• Challenge of multiple needs
• Challenge of a back-drop of cuts

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A more local context
• Need to leave no community or person
behind
• Need to deal with messiness &
completeness
• Need for support broad and specialist
• Need for adult conversations

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• So.. How do we build SMART
communities and kick start community
activity?
• Learn from each other
• Reflect on what works well and what
doesn’t
• Look at new ideas
• Get support from others along the way

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Supporting Communities … Rural Advocacy… Developing Solutions
1st March 2012
South Green,
Mattishall