Themes

Young people

Future Vision Student Awards
Do you see things differently? Future Vision is our student awards scheme that champions bright ideas for better places. It's open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK. We're looking to find ideas for better places to live, work and play . We aim to promote bold vision and inspirational ideas that are not only sustainable, but could be implemented in cities, towns and villages across the country.
Engaging Places
A project to make schools more aware of what can be achieved by engaging with local buildings, places and spaces. We are working with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), CABE and English Heritage to create a dynamic and strategic way forward to inspire schools. We aim to give schools clear routes and signposting to cultural and creative experiences and resources related to the built environment - and provide best practice models for embedding these experiences and resources within their school plans and curriculum.
University of Salford launches Foundation Degree in Sustainable Communities
Employers and students have celebrated the launch of the University of Salford’s new Foundation Degree in Sustainable Communities. The part-time, one afternoon a week course covers a range of issues including regeneration, community safety, local economies and worklessness, sustainable design, governance and community engagement.
National accolade for Birmingham Architecture student
Anjna Farmah from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is Women in Property's ‘Best of the Best’. Anjna who is a second year Architecture student is the winner of Women In Property’s National Student Awards 2009. She received her award at the Best of the Best Awards dinner at Claridge’s in London.
Architecture student wins Future Vision 09
James West, a student at the Manchester School of Architecture, has won the top prize at Future Vision 09. His idea – the Edible Terrace - is a sustainable interpretation of the Victorian terrace house. The self-sustaining living quarters are designed to reduce food miles and energy consumption and encourage urban food production and healthy eating. As well as overall winner, James won the Future Buildings category that singles out innovative ideas that can transform the way we design and build.
Leadership of Place award category
Category finalists CATEGORY WINNER: Green Horizons Housing, London Over the past decade, Green Horizons has been at the forefront of the regeneration of Edmonton Green in Enfield, contending with issues ranging from a high incidence of prostitution and drug dealing to anti-social behaviour and a poor physical environment.
Investing in Young People award category
Category finalists CATEGORY WINNER: Just 4 Youth by West Middlesbrough Neighbourhood Trust
Awards seek students’ vision for sustainable communities
We've launched our annual student award scheme to find bright ideas for better places for the third year. Future Vision 09 encourages students to ‘see things differently’ and submit ideas that could improve communities across the country. The scheme is targeted at UK undergraduates and postgraduates undertaking courses in, for example:
New website to help young people become active citizens
ASC and CSV (Community Service Volunteers) have developed an online toolkit that supports teachers to encourage pupils to play an active role in community projects. The Play your Part website includes ideas, resources, activities and teaching aids designed to raise awareness of sustainable communities, inspire young people to play a part in improving their communities and develop the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to devise and run successful citizen projects.
Ask What If? careers website
Ask: What If? is a national careers drive to target skills shortages across the sustainable communities sector. We launched the website www.askwhatif.co.uk in June 2007. Our research showed that young people demand straight, factual information and respect the views of their peers and those working in the professions. So we've created a distinct, thought-provoking careers programme, supported by our team of enthusiastic, expert ambassadors, which communicates with young people on their own terms.
Role of schools
Exploring the role of schools in the development of sustainable communities University of the West of England Dr Barry Percy-Smith Explores the extent to which schools have the capacity to be the drivers of sustainable consumption production (SCP) behaviour change. Investigates what constitutes effective practice in linking school-based learning to behaviour changes within a community. Trains local authority officers, teachers, youth service workers to be Action Research Staff within a community.
Young people in rural areas
Environmental skills and knowledge for sustainable rural communities: problems and prospects for the inclusion of young people University of Exeter Dr Michael Leyshon  Investigates how community engagements are being fostered through rural communities. How does this engagement relate to the future of young people in rural areas? Particular focus on engagement of young people through voluntary programmes.
Blackburn with Darwen National Action Project
We are worked with Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council on curriculum development and community cohesion in regeneration. The project aimed to: Establish a credible and respected forum, representative of all the communities in the borough to engage and inform town centre development. Develop connections with local schools and work with Blackburn College to jointly develop curriculum materials about place-making and the town centre, making use of materials developed through the Milton Keynes project and other resources. Embed community cohesion within the town centre masterplan and develop best practice in this area which can be used to influence the masterplanning profession through future policy making. Work with English Partnerships to develop standards and/or a kitemark to ensure community cohesion and diversity policies are embedded into the procurement process.

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