Community Renewal Trust is a values-led, dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland. With 45 staff in three neighbourhoods and running two social enterprises there is always lots of impact and interesting learning.

Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to proactively find the right people in the right places where transformative and empowering work can make the most difference. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.

Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.

A set of core values guides all the work of Community Renewal:

• TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.

• TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow.

• LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure

• BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism

• ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.

• ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people at the right time.

• INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.

This role is part of the Community Renewal Lifting Neighbourhoods Together team. This team brings together community workers and transformative caseworkers with specialist knowledge of different ways to support people in deprived neighbourhoods – for example welfare rights, employability, community food and health/mental health.

A five year grant from National Lottery Community Fund is core to enabling this team to operate in a different methodology which is deeply aligned with Community Renewal Trust’s core approach and values as described above.

This role is a fixed term activity to:

- Recruit a cohort of additional volunteers to support activities and services in the community.

- Ensure the best possible support is available to existing volunteers in the area to consider their needs and aspirations.

- Create an effective volunteer recruitment, on-boarding and retention process and increase knowledge in the team of these topics.

- Provide training and support training to volunteers in leading listening conversations and holistic conversations.

- Learn from work in Walker to make good use of volunteers in a Lifting Neighbourhoods Together approach and share this with the team.

Community Renewal Trust is a values-led, dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland. With 45 staff in three neighbourhoods and running two social enterprises there is always lots of impact and interesting learning.

Our work always places people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.

Community Renewal Trust works by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups).

A set of core values guides all the work of Community Renewal:

• TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.

• TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow.

• LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure

• BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism

• ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.

• ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people at the right time.

• INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.

This is an ideal role for a local community member who is looking to get involved in fantastic community events and learn about how to lead their own events or local activities while also gaining workplace experience.

The idea is to collaborate with our existing team around events in Bingham, Magdalene and the Hays that will take place in Autumn and Winter 2024-25 including seasonal events (e.g. Christmas), drop-in sessions, fun activities for families and others.

We need someone who can make a positive difference themselves and is enthused by community activities and supporting their neighbours. We also need someone who is prepared to learn about and follow some of the health and safety or similar regulations we need to follow around events. But this is also a chance to find how you can identify and use your strengths, ideas and learn skills.

This is an ideal role for a local community member who is looking to get involved in fantastic community events and learn about how to lead their own events or local activities while also gaining workplace experience.

The idea is to collaborate with our existing team around events in Bingham, Magdalene and the Hays that will take place in Autumn and Winter 2024-25 including seasonal events (e.g. Christmas), drop-in sessions, fun activities for families and others.

We need someone who can make a positive difference themselves and is enthused by community activities and supporting their neighbours. We also need someone who is prepared to learn about and follow some of the health and safety or similar regulations we need to follow around events. But this is also a chance to find how you can identify and use your strengths, ideas and learn skills.

Auchinleck Community Development Initiative is a company limited by guarantee and was formed in 2005 to assist in the regeneration of the physical, economic, social and cultural infrastructure of the community of Auchinleck in particular but also the surrounding area.

Over the years we have developed & provided a range of activities and projects including the Knowe Garden Centre and other floral and fauna displays, musical entertainment, employability advice and information, addiction recovery services, community cinema and various children and young people's activities and youth clubs. The organisation is based in the local Boswell Community Centre where most of our activities and services take place.

We have recently negotiated a 10-year lease of the Centre from East Ayrshire Leisure Trust and aim to make it a central focal point of the community in which the residents will have a full managerial role to play.

The work of ACDI is guided by our 5-year Development plan and specific Action Plans which are currently being reviewed to take account of our new role as managers of the Boswell Centre. The Community development Worker will play a key role in the review and implementation of these plans which will have a strong emphasis on capacity building within our existing groups and those developed in the future.

THE ROLE

As a community development worker working with the Auchinleck Community Development Initiative you'll work with the organisation's existing projects, individuals, families, the wider community and partners, supporting them to:

• build trusting and supportive relationships with you and the wider team

• identify their assets, needs, opportunities, rights and responsibilities

• co-produce what they want to achieve and take appropriate action

• co-design activities and services to generate aspiration and confidence

• achieve a status of independence and self-government.

You'll do this by acting as a link between the Organisation, the local community and a range of other local authority and voluntary sector providers to ensure that the Boswell Centre is a well-used resource and a focal point within the community

Your role will frequently involve addressing inequality and the projects you work on will be in communities perceived to be culturally, economically or geographically disadvantaged.