Regeneration
Communities aren’t just about houses, they’re about people: the homes they live in; their skills to get jobs, their children’s education; their health and fitness; their safety and their involvement in making decisions about the area they live in. Optima’s Regeneration Team is working with a range of organisations to ‘create opportunities and help to improve the quality of people’s lives’. Our focus is on four main priorities:
- Supporting vulnerable residents to maintain their tenancies
- Encouraging neighbourliness and pride
- Helping people feel safe and reducing anti-social behaviour
- Encouraging residents to have their say
Members of the team are:
Angela Dyer - Head of Regeneration
Jo Lea - Senior Community Development Officer
James Hobbs - Community and Play Worker
Susan Yates - Community Warden
Jo Lea - Senior Community Development Officer
James Hobbs - Community and Play Worker
Susan Yates - Community Warden
Paul Kennedy - Community Warden
Margaret Weekes - Money Advice Worker (Seconded from Birmingham City Council’s Debt Advice Team)
Margaret Weekes - Money Advice Worker (Seconded from Birmingham City Council’s Debt Advice Team)
Scott Reilly - Trainnee Community Warden
These pages are a brief description of our current projects and some of the work we have been doing. You can see the results of some of our projects on our YouTube channel and Flickr page. If you would like to talk to us drop in or call us on 0121 687 3143.
Last updated: 27-08-2010
