Citizen Power in Peterborough: One year on...

Our interim report, Citizen Power in Peterborough: One year on, has just been launched, and provides an overview of the programme’s successes and challenges to date.

Commenting on the report, Gillian Beasley, Chief Executive of Peterborough City Council, said, “This is about long-term change in the culture of our city and about civic pride… We hope that in a short space of time, other cities will look to Peterborough as a shining example of how ordinary people were able to embrace ‘citizen power’ and have a much bigger say in the running of their city.”

Some of the project highlights since mid-2010...

• Citizen Power has leveraged in nearly £700,000 to Peterborough
• Arts and Social Change has hosted five Creative Gatherings attended by 139 people in total
•  Sustainable Citizenship has engaged over 80 people, including local residents as well as national experts on innovation and environmental lifestyles
• Recovery Capital has interviewed around 150 people with current or past experience of problems with drug and alcohol in the city
• Peterborough Curriculum is working with 5 schools and a range of local organisations to design
  parts of their own school curriculum
• As part of the Civic Commons, a group of 25 citizens met with police, NHS staff, youth workers and
  local charities to develop innovative solutions to tackling social problems in Century Square
• ChangeMakers will map and mobilise around 40 individuals who can help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing Peterborough

Read all about it in RSA Chief Exec Matthew Taylor's article in the Guardian Society and download a PDF copy of the report here or view it online on our homepage.

If you have access to the Local Government Chronicle, you can also read about it here.

Happy reading!