Salford LIDS
Community Action IN Salford
What we are doing now 2008
We are working with the artist Lawrence Cassidy on his exhibition Re-Tracing Salford which includes maps of streets of "slum" areas, visitors family photos, disappeared street signs and films.
We interview visitors to the exhibition and air their stories on the local community radio station Salford City Radio 94.4 and make C.Ds of them which we give to the participants .
We have done this in Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Ordsall Community Cafe and Langworthy Cornerstone.
We are presently interested in starting up Green Social Enterprises.
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
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
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."
