NDC's: New Deal for Communities
Regeneration practitioners know all about the problem of "leakage". Too often, beneficiaries of economic improvement grants move out of the area leaving the old problems behind. A Slivers-of-Time marketplace for NDC residents pushes work and soft skills constantly through the community. A small part of the annual budget, maybe wardens or office support within M&A, can be leveraged to create this new facility which has no set up costs.
Every NDC area contains a valuable asset: the spare hours of the people who live there. At present many of those hours go unsold because there isn't a marketplace efficient enough for them to be traded. That could be changed. It needs around £100,000 of spending channelled through the marketplace to get it established. See Slivers-of-Time v. job creation for more details of this. Once established, newsletters and the other channels of communication among residents can be used to publicise first the new option, then the case studies of residents it generates.
Hull Probe NDC is currently pioneering a Slivers-of-Time Marketplace for the benefit of residents. They believe this new facility will allow them to compete with high street agencies in getting their underpriviliged residents into work. Read more.
