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Imagine Rusholme! Core Team
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME!
COMMUNITY SUMMIT
Saturday October 6th 2012
IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Summit Agenda
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! My One Thing
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We started off with a group introduction and appreciative story session. We
said hello to someone we didn’t know and found out their name and where they
were from. We then shared one thing each that has happened since the last
Summit which had strengthened our love of Rusholme and wrote it on a ‘post it’.
My One Thing
Youth theatre director looking for participants
from the diverse communities that exist in
Rusholme
‘Greened’ street: plants fruit & veg
Project in Trinity House getting unemployed
customer doing gardening
Nice to see this
Happy about Birchfields Park Festival
Vibrancy & energy for civil matters
Rubbish being cleaned up
St James churchyard tidy up
Beautiful area very leafy
St James’ School a thriving local school new
head teacher
Birchfields Park Fun Day
A Great Big Breakfast
The area around the old ‘Welcome Pub’ is
cleaner and tidier
Clean-up
St James’ churchyard has been cleaned
Walking to the post box and meeting friends on
the way
Great work with South Rusholme Residents’
Group particularly now the students are
returning
Different sections of the community working
together
NEW BABY – everything I loved before I love
even more now
Park events
Street party on Park Range
Diversity of population – dynamic
Friends Group of Birchfields Park to support
more physical activities in the park
Environment cleansing (streets and Platt Fields)
(More) welcoming to students (than other areas)
The greenery
The allotment & orchard in Platt Fields Park! I
didn’t know it existed
Quiet street
Introduction to the new GMP model done
The Olympic spirit arriving!
Especially the great clean up – much improved
The area at the end of Rusholme Grove has
been tidied and looks much better
Steering Group Action Plan with Stakeholders,
now people are working together
Leaves turning on the trees – beautiful!
Visiting the vibrant ‘curry mile’
IMAGINE RUSHOLME! My One Thing
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[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Building on Imagine Rusholme! 1
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The current leaders of each of the ten Open Space Discussions that came
out of the first Imagine Rusholme! Summit in March this year each gave a
140-word update on what they had achieved, in the context of their
Discussion, since the first Summit in order to bring everyone up to speed.
OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION DISCUSSION LEADER
Community Garden on Rusholme Grove
+ Joining Up Green Spaces, Hedgerows & Trees
Cllr Kate Chappell
+ Helena Kettleborough
Creative Rusholme Phil Barton
Litter Free Rusholme
+ Cleaner/Greener
Cllr Ahmed Ali
On Our Bikes in Rusholme Vincent Walsh
Reducing Burglary CPSO Phil Mellor
Respect for Rusholme
+ How to Work Positively with the Council for
the Good of Rusholme
Bruce Anderson
Rusholme & Wider World Issues Stephen Pennells
Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans
+ Parking
Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar +
Sue Devlin
Student Integration & Involvement Bev Craig + Ashley Hall
Sustainability Jane Sweet
IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Outcomes for Imagine Rusholme! 2
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We discussed outcomes for Imagine Rusholme 2 – we would aim to achieve
one thing to make life good for everyone in Rusholme….by December 2012
IMAGINE RUSHOLME! World Café
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We used an approach called ‘World Café’ where each Discussion Leader
remained at a ‘café’ table and everyone was free to choose which
Discussion to join and therefore which ‘café’ table to sit at. We had at
least three opportunities to move around, some people stayed in the same
Discussion, others moved several times. Throughout we were taking first
steps together:
IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 1: Community Garden/Green Spaces
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[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 1: Community Garden/Green Spaces
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[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Community Garden/Green Spaces
Create corridors
Join up green spaces – better for wildlife
Gore Brook, Birchfields, Platt Fields
Organise fun run-fun walk-fun cycle with children between green spaces
Rusholme in Bloom
Bins
Family of foxes, hedgehog, feral cats
By December 2012 – Meet up to plan an Open Yardens and Gardens (OYG) Event!
o Outcome – to raise funds to build planned community garden through our
OYG open day
o Speak to Adele, organiser of Moss Side OYG
o Speak to organisations like Friends of Birchfields, Friends of Platt Fields,
Rusholme Allotments Association, Residents’ Associations and form a
steering group. When are their next meetings?
o Meet December, set a date, not to clash with other schemes
o Plan the day – central area, sell programmes “Look out for……”
o Pop-up tea shop
Co-opt enthusiastic partners – 5! (2 more)
1st Date for a meeting – Thursday 18
th October 2012, 3pm @ Lynn’s house
Long term plan:
o Involve the University botanical gardens
o Involve landlords in keeping their gardens
o Linking green areas into a wildlife/green walk around Rusholme
By October 2013:
o Open Yardens & Gardens Sunday has taken place in mid June 2013
o there is a wildlife corridor walk
o have established a forest school facility in one of our parks
o have linked with the University botanical gardens and Red Rose forests
o there is a scheme to encourage landlords to maintain front & back gardens
& not concrete them over
o Landscape & gardening scheme in place – enforced?
1. Kate Chappell – Discussion Leader [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 2: Creative Rusholme
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 10 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 2: Creative Rusholme
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Creative Rusholme
1) Rusholme Festival
Antwerp, Birch Community Centre, Platt Chapel, Trinity House, St
Edwards Hall, Trinity House
Rusholme is what people believe to be Rusholme
2) Plan strategy for the next 10 years with feasibility study
3) Legacy for Festival
4) Project for long-term goals
5) Rusholme festival to represent ALL of Rusholme
6) Brand image for ‘Southern Quarter’
Stage 1
o 22 Oct application in
o If successful student to shadow/assist person
o Small steering group – community/arts org/city/school
o Raise awareness of what’s already going on to more parts of the
community, inform people, cultural, “listening”
o Apply for Neighbourhood Arts Grant for a project
o First report – end Jan
o Meeting of interested people
o Cornerhouse & Library Theatre
o John Atkin
Stage 2
o Cultural feasibility – community, students, culture, economic
o September/October 2013 – Rusholme Festival
o Black history month
o Photo
o Sports - second
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 3: Litter-Free Rusholme
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 12 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 3: Litter-Free Rusholme
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 13 of 30
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Litter-Free Rusholme
Managing tidyness!
Parking
Where are the bins? Not enough bins: who decides on the number of bins?
Heritage Trail
Funding from ward grant
Litter picking kits
Involve students and community groups
Use parking officers!
New Neighbourhood Delivery Teams from the Council, trying to reconcile differences about waste
NDT is overstretched, working relentlessly and achieving the job – successful with team and community
Partnership beginning to take place and growing
Businesses – NDT stopping fliers especially in student areas (not using letter boxes, getting thrown on floor – careless
distributors)
Care of properties by landlords, care of heritage, aspirations
Signs £10,000, enforcement, parking strategies, conditions on sale of land
Educate out Anti-social behaviour?
Behaviour change: fines, enforcement, where are the signs? what is the Environmental Plan? Council should work on
the Environmental Plan for Rusholme, What information are students given? changing mindset
Increase volunteers: lots of litter picking
Causes of problems – flytipping
Area’s perception – badly littered areas promote more litter dropping (Environmental perceptions)
In 2012:
o Enforcement (in hot spots!!) – by December – NDT (MCC)
o Traders paying for bins (sponsor) - by December – NDT, design, placing, including residents,
influenced at Traders Association (Keep Britain Tidy) – traders taking responsibility
o Signage (in hotspots!) - by December – ‘Pick Up Your Litter’
o CCTV – in now – rotate cameras!
o Community guardians’ and residents’ involvement – by December, Community Mentors encourage
new members –Guardian Forum in November, ‘Be Proud’ awards, work with Community Guardians
training & support - universities ‘Good Neighbours Scheme’
Schools – CCET (MCC)/Schools
Litter (Business) Traders & Councillors
Behaviour Change – All
By October 2013:
o Area is clean
o Recycling is up
o Alleyways are clean
o Environmental cleanliness
o People litter picking (including brushes), community is playing its part
o Traders paying for extra litter bins
o More signage, litter penalties
o Community challenge – litter droppers and fly tippers ‘put it in the bin
o Behavioural change in littering & fly tipping
o Enforcement 1. Cllr Ahmed Ali [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 4: On Our Bikes in Rusholme
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 14 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 4: On Our Bikes in Rusholme
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 15 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – On Our Bikes in Rusholme
Reclaim streets for cyclists
Pedal Manchester
Critical Mass
20’s Plenty for Manchester
Road surface repairs
More cycle racks/bike parking
Bus conductors compulsory by law
Priority for cyclists at lights
More 20 mph limits
Greater awareness of cycling community groups
Councillor Kate Chappell (Rusholme) is a member champion for cycling at MCC
Action Plan:
o Register as a stakeholder in Oxford Road Corridor Consultation
o Liaise ahead of formal opening of TfGM Consultation
o Continue to report potholes to MCC
o Attend “Love Cycling, Go Dutch” on 20 November and report back
o Census of cyclists during morning & evening peak: 08:00 – 09:00 & 17:00 –
18:00 in March 2013 and again in October 2013, Junction Moss Lane East &
Wilmslow Road
o ‘Just Ride’ – family ride Sunday 14th
October Fallowfield Loop
1. Vincent Walsh [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 5: Reducing Burglary
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 16 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Reducing Burglary
Inform new students
Always phone the police with any information
Home Watch Schemes
Never leave windows/doors unlocked
House alarms – are they working
Be aware
Licensed premises – stick to their licence conditions
o Environmental health visits
o Licence check with police
o Check premises (fire service) etc
Meet with residents of Kent Court
1. CPSO Phil Mellor [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 6: Respect for Rusholme
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 17 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Respect 4 Rusholme
Wheelie bin management
Tenant action – Eastlands Trust
Flyers on windscreens (re considerate parking)
Heritage Trail ‘Living History’ (names from Rusholme’s past)
Asian Experience
1. Bruce Anderson [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 7: Rusholme & Wider World Issues
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 18 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Rusholme & Wider World Issues
1. Build local go global - write to councillors to get wider issues onto WARD PLAN,
facilitate encouraging action, support, involvement in wider world issues, (eg, notice
boards, media)
2. Publicise local events – Tax Bus at Martin Luther King House Tuesday 16th
15:00
3. Link to student wider concerns groups
i. MMU
ii. Xaverian
iii. UoM
4. Link to Faith groups and communications
1. Stephen Pennells [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 8: Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans
incl Parking
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 19 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 8: Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans
incl Parking
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 20 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Rusholme Ward & District Centre Plans incl Parking
So what’s happening?
o Business Association….but we need more participation!
o Active residents! How do we sustain it over the next year?
How do we get there?
o More engagement through ward coordination and the universities
o Need people to fill the gap
o Think creatively about funding
Parking Improvements
o Currently being implemented
o Some problems solved, eg, better use of loading bays
o Progress made on the Rusholme ‘crater’
Action Plan
o Facilitate a meeting with potential developers regarding the Rusholme
‘crater’
o Make progress on a Rusholme District Centre website
o Initiate delivery of the planned parking improvements
o Plan survey of local businesses
o Ensure funding – EDU MCC, universities, private developers, S106
o Effective partnerships by December 2012
o Personnel – links – goodwill – resources - action plan
o Working to action plan
1. Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar [email protected]
2. Sue Devlin [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 9: Student Integration & Involvement
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 21 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 9: Student Integration & Involvement
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – Student Integration & Involvement
Coalition for Platt Fields
o Encourage Council to improve facilities/area at the park
Community to get to know students on their roads, street parties etc, welcome events,
hosted by communities
Advertise/promote ‘Manchester Zoom’ to students
What is happening?
o Students have direct links with community groups
o Regular student-led community events at Birch Community Centre
What is different in October 2013?
o Coordination of student groups and community groups
o How does it feel? Like a community!
Action Plan:
o Make and maintain contact between students/university and community
groups
o Identify links between groups and to students
o Working with university off-campus affairs team – provide regular email
contact with groups, eg, coalition for Platt Fields and Birch Community
Centre
o Develop university and community group meetings to plan and discuss
projects
o Develop network between university and groups to ensure sustainability
Strengths
o Post created to coordinate student community volunteers
o University network of potential student volunteers – Manchester Leadership
Programme
o Interested community groups
Support Needed:
o More community groups to get involved and stay involved
o Community groups need support to plan and communicate volunteers and
events
o Appropriate placement plans – related to courses, etc
Resources Needed:
o Networks – meeting spaces
o Venues – people, volunteers.
1. Ashley Hall [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 10: Sustainability
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 23 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Discussion 10: Sustainability
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 24 of 30
[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! - Sustainability
Homes - Green Roof - Manchester Carbon Coop
Churches and Mosques
Sustainability of Rusholme District Centre – clean, food, students and people come and east there – a
vibrant Centre!
Retro-Fitting – Rob Jones
Birchfields - Forest Garden
Platt Fields – Soak area for water – not working – Council has no budget, Environment Agency?
Coalition for Platt Fields
Find out? What can we do
Eco house/pod on Eastlands’ site
All connected! Always have vision! – sharing the vision
Part of all themes
Practical and possible:
o Tour of similar projects, inspirational, by bike, local (walk), Levenshulme
o Back alley, Kent Road West, on November 11th
2012: clearing up, pruning trees and shrubs
o Next Forest Garden meeting on 21st October, and forest garden session 1-3pm 18
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November. Discuss refurbishment/retro-fitting at next Forest Garden social – 1st November
o Urban Garden Project – all come + visitors from other projects, run workshops
o Mapping of all green spaces, a comprehensive map of all green spaces (large and small -
including small verges) in and on boundaries of Rusholme: on bikes and on foot and Pedal
Manchester. Map the forest garden and foraging routes to/from Platt Fields and Fallowfield
Loop
o Manchester Carbon Coop – workshops on retro-fitting – group meeting
o South Rusholme Residents – December 2012 – Manchester Green Deal
Collective meeting – Birchfields
Cycling garden tour
In 1 Year’s Time:
o Street by street
o More pocket parks and food growing – link to exemplary projects - Cranswick Square
Gardens - Urban Gardening Project – Community Group
o More sharing of resources – more self-reliant community (district heat and power scheme) –
saving money
o Examples of low carbon living being replicated – homes warm and efficient – create jobs
o More coalitions – cheaper
o Link with Housing Associations
o Faith Communities
o Energy creation schemes
1. Jane Sweet [email protected]
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! All Ten Discussions
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 25 of 30
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! What Else Will It Take?
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[email protected] Photographs taken by Phil Barton. ‘Word clouds’ created by Sue Devlin using www.wordle.net.
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! – What Else Will It Take?
Involve the Rusholme Business Association – Sue Devlin, Cllr Rabnawaz Akbar, Cllr Ahmed Ali,
Muhammad Ayub
Involve all groups – run mini Imagine Rusholme!s in their contexts, eg, mosques, churches, students,
Mela, women’s groups, schools, parents – Sue Devlin
Create a single hub of information about these initiatives, eg, newsletter, notice boards, web – Sue Devlin,
Colin Bennett
Way of welcoming students – Vincent Walsh sends something out to all students in the street – Vincent
Walsh
Take this back to our own street and get one more individual involved in the initiative - All
Another Imagine Rusholme! – Cllr Kate Chappell
Rusholme Blog – Bruce Anderson and All
Put the names out and others’ research, eg, growing ethnic food – Cllr Ahmed Ali and Colin Bennett
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IMAGINE RUSHOLME! Summit 2 Feedback
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 27 of 30
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What I really loved today
Talking with people with passion!
Good organisation! Thank you x
Hearing of media/comms in
present
The energy of everyone!
Talking to people with a common
goal
Meeting people new and familiar
Planning
Great facilitation
Passion/vibe to make Rusholme a
better place to live
What would make it even better next time
More time to talk
Crèche with activity for children
which would include them in
Imagining Rusholme, eg, craft
activities, storied invented,
ideas for their future. This way
more families will be able to get
involved.
Not using the phrase ‘nitty
gritty’ – very racist in origin
More time on less tasks
IMAGINE RUSHOLME! And We All Enjoyed the Lovely Venue
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 28 of 30
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and the Tasty Lunch
IMAGINE RUSHOLME! And the Autumn Sun Shone On Us All!
Prepared by Sue Devlin on behalf of the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 29 of 30
[email protected] Greetings card courtesy of ‘TOASTED’ CONTEMPORARY DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION www.thisistoasted.com
Printed and published in the UK by urban graphic ltd www.urbangraphic.co.uk
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And is Synchronicity in the Air??
‘Everything you can imagine is real’ by Matt Lyon www.c8six.com
A greetings card spotted for sale in Whitworth Art Gallery shop in October
2012.
IMAGINE RUSHOLME!
Imagine Rusholme! Core Team 30 of 30
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Acknowledgements
The Imagine Rusholme! Project is taking its lead from Imagine Chicago www.imaginechicago.org.
The inspiration for the Imagine Rusholme! Project came via Helena Kettleborough, out of the
European AI Network Conference which was held in Manchester, November 2-5, 2011:
http://www.networkplace.eu/web/page.aspx?refid=145.
The Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 was a follow up to Summit 1 which took place in March 2012
involving over 70 Rusholme residents and other interested parties.
The Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 was funded by Manchester City Council’s cash grants scheme:
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200047/grants/202/cash_grants_to_improve_residential
_areas.
The Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 used techniques from a toolkit called Appreciative Inquiry:
http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/.
The choice of techniques, workshop materials and the AI skills were provided by a group of
expert AI practitioners who met via the European AI network: http://www.networkplace.eu/.
…..namely Helena Kettleborough, Cliodhna Mulhern, Ruth Passman, Abdul Hamied, Kate Sibthorp,
Kathy Mills, Elizabeth Jayne and Masoud Sanii: contact via: [email protected] or
0161 225 3422.
The flipchart notices, signs and Imagine Rusholme! Story Wall were all created by a gifted
artist, Kate Sibthorp, based in the NW: contact via [email protected] or 0161 225
3422.
All photographs were taken by a Rusholme resident and Creative Rusholme Discussion Leader,
Phil Barton.
All ‘word clouds’ were created by another Rusholme resident Sue Devlin using the wonderfully
simple and freely available www.wordle.net.
The tasty, Asian cuisine was freshly cooked on site for us by Saira Qureshi from a local
charity: Nazir Welfare Trust www.nwtcharity.org.
….. refreshment services were magnificently managed by Rusholme residents, Anne Tucker and
Rob Jones, assisted by other local residents.
…..and the ‘pop-up’ crèche, hosting some ten lively members of the Rusholme’s next generation,
was ably managed by their parents plus Anne Tucker and Kate Cross.
The great Rusholme venue was provided by: www.birchcc.org.
The Summit was organised by the Imagine Rusholme! Core Team: Elaine Bishop, Sue Devlin
Helena Kettleborough, Jane Sweet and Anne Tucker.
…..with full support, as ever, from Rusholme’s three Councillors, the Rusholme Neighbourhood
Delivery Team, the Rusholme Ward Coordination and Regeneration Teams, and other Rusholme-
focused Manchester City Council officers.
The Imagine Rusholme! Core Team can be contacted at [email protected] or on
0161 225 3422.