Trust & Partnership

Trust and Partnership is written at a time when the urgent need for radical change in Welsh local government is once again headline news. We look back at the origin of this huge estate overlooking Swansea and then consider the aims and aspirations of the EU URBAN I Community Initiative. URBAN laid a foundation. The decision was made to create a company limited by guarantee with charitable aims to carry the baton of regeneration and build for a sustainable future. The multi-use Phoenix Centre, billed as the first economic development centre of its kind in Wales, was opened in 2001 as a community hub to deliver a range of activities and services to local people. Communities First came and went. Here, lessons from 17 years of hard-won success are shared. Against the odds, this ambitious approach worked ... even when the government grants dried up.

July 2018