Salford LIDS

Community Action IN Salford

What  we are doing now  - 2010

Our most pressing focus is the work we are doing at Ordsall Community Cafe on creative writing and The Memory Factory.  (See front page.)

 Also -

We have recently brought to a close the exciting exhibition on Chapel Street. LIDS provided the audio component in a project with artist Lawrence Cassidy on his work 'Re-Tracing Salford' which included maps of streets of "slum" areas, visitors family photos, disappeared street signs and films.

This was held on the first Saturday of the month at Chapel Street and Hope United Reformed Church, on Chapel Street, opposite Salford Central Station on Chapel Street, Salford.

In 2008 we helped Lawrence hold a similar exhibition at the Langworthy Cornerstone, (see photo below).

More details at their website.

 We interview visitors to the exhibition and air their stories on the local community radio station Salford City Radio 94.4. .

 

We have done this in Salford Museum and Art Gallery in Spring 2008, then Ordsall Community Cafe.

We are have used Lottery money to make 'Online radio' programmes for Salford. 

We are interested in starting up Green Social Enterprises in the future.

 We are enabling people to do creative writing in conjunction with Salford University and the BBC at Ordsall Community Cafe.

 We are experimenting with ways of preserving peoples memories for themselves using funding from the 'New Mornings' project at Salford University.

We are hoping to work with the 'Maxamundo' project at the University, and are looking for funding.

 

 

 

What we offer

Salford LIDS started in 1999. Over the years we have been developing strategies to enable us to provide better training; help and advice; learning approaches; access to funding; background on structures and legal responsibilities; and a library of up-to-date information on issues that affect people and communities who want to see change and positive improvement to their areas.

 

Things you might learn include:

  • Problem solving.
  • 'Positive Thinking', and planning for the future.
  • Feeling good about your area and what it needs.
  • Dealing with hurdles, setback, upsets and negative comments.
  • Straight talking with the 'professionals'.
  • Building communities that are worth living in.

Then and now

Looking to the future:

Just imagine what you could achieve if you had the knowledge and experience in a few of the following skills. These are a few of the topics we can cover in the work we do with you.
  • Participatory Appraisal
  • Writing Business Plans
  • Getting yourself on to local radio
  • Feasibility Studies and Market Research
  • Management Consultancy
  • Advice in marketing, promotion and advertising
  • Getting yourself launched on the web
  • Product research and competition comparisons
  • Writing reports, public speaking and making presentations
  • Fund raising basics and how to make applications
  • Filling in forms
  • Making phone calls that count

Costs and fees

  • What it might cost you:


There are many funding opportunities in Salford and we can help you and your group in fund-raising.
If this goes well, it means that there will probably be no charge to you.

Where you might find us:

If you want to get in touch, see the 'Contact Us' button above.
At the moment we are working most days of the week, and you might even be able to see us in the evenings or at weekends.
Please say which time suits you best. We will try and meet your needs.

Mike Scantlebury is one of the consultants. "We try to be accessible. Call us anytime and see what we can do."

 

Why we're different

Salford LIDS provides consultancy, training, support and help for people and projects in the community - given by people who know what it's like.

It's not easy to get a community project up and running. There's premises to find, cash to raise, volunteers to recruit and staff to employ. Salford LIDS has first-hand knowledge of the difficulties and frustrations of getting started, and then - keeping it going!

LIDS is staffed by people with the knowledge and experience you need.

We have many years of experience and can back that up with training received and qualifications obtained - from the Open College; MMU and Manchester University.

We are striving to ensure high standards, but at an affordable price.


Try our Introduction to Management in the Community programme.
It incorporates material from both the Open University management course and Manchester University's 'Community Development' modules.

Mike Scantlebury is one of our members and works part-time as a tutor at one of Manchester University's colleges. "We can learn from the academic sector," he says, "and they can learn from us."