The Community Allowance approach was developed from the first hand experience of local community organisations. A simple but powerful way of working that makes a productive link between the most substantial public spending in poor neigbourhoods (billions in welfare payments) and the abilities of those neigbourhoods to liberate themselves from poverty and poor services - If a job needs doing why not pay local unemployed people to do it?
The model for the Community Allowance is simple but powerful.
The Community Allowance
- Is a package of training, work and personal support delivered very locally by trusted community organisations, with strong track records of working with the hardest to reach.
- Gets people back into work, gaining experience and employability in a supportive environment.
- Enables community organisations to develop local solutions and jobs which directly improve and regenerate their communities
The Community Allowance gives communities new resources and ways of working, enabling them to develop local solutions to improve and regenerate their communities. All the jobs created by the Community Allowance are the ones that are fundamental to making and sustaining communities – the caring, sharing, supportive, cleaning, greening, keeping-safe, checking-over, sorting-out, neigbourhood managing, wardens, lollipop crossing, befriending, youth work, sports and social health living, conflict-resolving and care-taking roles.
The types of jobs that could be created are as diverse as the communities they serve but they all maximise community benefit and create good quality, part-time and flexible jobs. Together we can create a virtuous cycle of renewal where communities can be protected from funding cuts and can even thrive, when given the tools to do so.
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