Building on the success of our inaugural event in Pontypridd. A follow up day in PontyPridd in August (13th) will see a wide mix of community groups and organisations beyond the high street and retail coming together to explore how they can join up,enhance health and well-being locally, increase sustainable transport use and have all this activity ultimately benefit the high street, the businesses in it and the residents who use it. The meeting is to discuss how collaborating and creating new and joint opportunities to engage and connect with residents could create the ‘right’ outcomes in Welsh communities.
The event is sponsored by Reward Your World and will take place at the Municiple Building, Gelliwastad Road, Pontypridd CF37 2DP.
Places are limited so please register to attend as soon as possible here and download the agenda here
Agenda
10.00 Registration opens with refreshments.
10.30 Adrian Evans, Town Centres Manager, Rhondda Cynon Taff Borough Council – Welcome to Pontypridd
10.35 Mark Barnes, MD, Revive & Thrive Ltd – Introduction and scene setting
10.40 Dan Gipple, CEO, RYW Community Systems – Dan is a social and commercial entrepreneur with strong experience in the areas of social and consumer behaviour change, loyalty and sustainability. He is also recognised as a leading professional team strategy facilitator who is today focusing on driving innovative positive outcomes from workshop discussions and forums in towns and cities across the UK on the subjects of regeneration, renewal and sustainability.
11.30 Refreshment break
11.40 Robert Proctor, Renew Wales Programme Director – How communities can get involved in tackling big environmental issues. A more sustainable future lies in ‘just doing it’, at a grassroots level.
12.05 Stephen Kearney, Chief Executive of Action to Regenerate Community Trust – Regenerate have developed a process of engagement that builds networks of customers, clients, entrepreneurs, activists, volunteers and voters. Stephen will talk about how this process can be used to build the foundations for an economically sustainable community. Stephen is the strategist behind the Cabinet Offices engagement, localism and organising programmes and has worked in the voluntary and statuary sector for thirty years.
12.30 Simon James, Chief Executive, Interlink RCT. Connecting Communities’ – How looking at the assets in the community and connecting communities together can contributes to regeneration. Case study, Pontypridd ‘Movers and Shakers
13.00 Buffet lunch provided by Reward Your World
13.40 Jane Rexworthy, Exec Director Strategic Partnerships at People 1st Retail and Head of the National Skills Academy for Retail – Utilising skills to engage the community, create sustainable businesses and places we want to visit
14.05 Peter Davies, Wales Sustainable Futures Commissioner, Chairman Climate Change Commission for Wales - Sustainable Places for Sustainable Future: a focus on policies and programmes supporting community led developments
14.45 Refreshments
15.00 Kathryn Jellings, Head of 3SC Cymru, 3SC & Jobs Growth Wales – 3SC is a social enterprise that seeks to work in collaboration and partners with a wide range of organisations. In Wales one of 3SC’s contracts is the delivery of Jobs Growth Wales. Jobs Growth Wales is the most successful employability programme in Europe with a success rate that exceeds 80%. The key factors for its success are that the programme works with organisations to build capacity and growth whilst giving young people the opportunity to enter the work place and develop skills and experience.
15.15 Matthew Powell, Director for Policy & Partnerships, Revive & Thrive Ltd – Linking it all together, town centre’s role in community. Connecting and engaging through shared space.
15.40 Daniel Gipple & Adrian Evans – Launch of Rhondda Cynon Taf’s latest tool for incentivising and rewarding residents
16.10 Daniel Gipple – Summing up and next steps
16.30 Close
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