NEIGHBOURHOOD COACHING

• Neighbourhoods need both challenge and care, and so do the people who are trying to improve them.
• We provide independent and constructive support for local people who are ambitious for their unique place, be it through setting up a community enterprise or restoring an underused building to productive use.
• With experience, networks, knowledge and information from all over the country, we can help you unlock the hidden resources you need to achieve change without burning out. See our Neighbourhoods section for examples.

 

 

NATIONAL INFLUENCE

• Alongside direct services to local groups, we work with government, funders and other national partners to develop and design policies, organisations and programmes that facilitate local change.
• These have included: CADO Community Assets in Difficult Ownership, Community Organisers Ltd (CoCo), the Community Allowance, the Meanwhile Foundation, the Seaside Towns Economic Partnership, the Joseph Roundtree Foundation, the Mycelial Network, and the Demeter Service to support partnerships between communities and private developers. For a closer look at the work we do at a national level, have a look at how we shape Programmes and Policy.
• We have been working for a long time in Hastings to develop and test ideas that then gain national recognition, particularly the concept of self-renovating neighbourhoods.
• In February 2022 Jess completed her PhD on this topic: ‘Self renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification’. See here for more examples of JRS influencing work via publications, media appearances and presentations.

 

LISTEN–THINK–LEARN-SHARE

• JRS have always aimed to create spaces for shared learning, cross-sector challenge, and mutual support by arranging events that bring people together from across the community regeneration and asset development sector.
• The history of the Salon stretches back via Enlightenment Paris to 16th century Italy, and in the Arab world to Sukynah bint al-Husayn in the 8th century. What they had in common was that they were convened by women (salonnières), they brought people together who would not normally meet, and they aimed ‘to please and to educate’, and often, to change the world.
• Jericho Road has held two modern Salon events in Hastings and Bradford, and supported dozens of less formal inter-minglings.
• Now in development is an exciting new venture: JRS are developing an international hosting centre for the commons – a place for people and organisations from around the world to meet inspiring peers who are active in the field of the holistic development of neighbourhoods and community-led cultural and economic regeneration. A place to talk, learn, share stories and journeys, challenges and aspirations.
• While community practitioners and activists are the primary visitors, the space will also welcome other groups for training and learning events, team-building events, creative residencies and retreats. It will be a place for networking, sharing, mutual support, building friendship and collaborations; a place to learn and reflect as well as retreat and recuperate from demanding and difficult work.
• Watch this space for more details about our progress. Contact us if you would like to find out more!