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Additionality - a way of measuring the benefits of a project which highlights the changes brought about which wouldn’t have occurred if the project hadn’t taken place. Aims and objectives: the result a project is intended to achieve, eg to create additional jobs for local people
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Baseline - A measurement of the starting conditions, for example numbers unemployed, before a programme is undertaken. The benefits of a programme can be assessed over time by comparing the baseline with more up to date figures.
BME Support Organisations - Black and Minority Ethnic business support organisations
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Capacity building - Shorthand for a wide range of support, techniques and initiatives which aim build the capacity of individuals or organisations within communities to contribute effectively to improving quality of life.
Community Strategies - Now known as Sustainable Community Strategies, these are the plans which local authorities are now required to prepare for improving the economic, environmental and social well being of local areas working with public, private voluntary and community organisations that operate locally.
Crime Reduction Partnerships - Statutory partnerships formed as a consequence of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which required the Police and local authorities and others to work together to tackle crime and disorder within a local authority area. www.crimereduction.gov.uk
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Deadweight - A way of measuring the benefits of a programme which identifies the things that would have occurred anyway without the intervention of the programme (see additionality)
Delivery Plan - A plan which sets out what a project or programme intends to achieve, when, where and at what cost.
Displacement - The extent to which the effects of a project impact - positively or negatively - on surrounding areas
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Evaluation - An assessment, after a project or programme has started, of the extent to which objectives have been achieved, how efficiently they have been achieved, and whether there are any lessons to be gained for the future
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Full Cost Recovery
The term full-cost recovery means:“Allowing providers to include the relevant element of their overheads – including irrecoverable VAT costs – in their cost estimates for providing a given service under a service agreement or contract” (ACEVO 2004). In full-cost recovery, an organisation’s overheads are shared among the different projects proportionately, according to use. “The full costs of your project are all the costs directly relating to the project plus the project's share of the overheads.” (Big Lottery)
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Government Offices for the Regions - There are nine Government Offices, each working with regional partners and local people to help deliver the governments key aims at regional level. Government Office for the East Midlands or GO-EM, is the hub of central government in the region.
Groundwork - A charity supporting regeneration through practical environmental work in deprived areas. www.groundwork.org.uk
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Leakage - The extent to which the activity proposed benefits people outside the target area or groupLeverage - The additional money that a programme causes others to contribute.
Life long learning - The continuous development of skills and knowledge to enhance quality of life and employment prospects. www.lifelonglearning.co.uk
Local Public Service Agreement - Agreements between individual local authorities and the Government setting out the authority’s commitment to deliver specific improvements in performance, and the Government’s commitment to reward these improvements. The agreement also records what the Government will do to help the authority achieve the improved performance. www.local-regions.odpm.gov.uk/lpsa/index.htm
Local Strategic Partnerships - New overarching partnerships of stakeholders who will develop ways to involve local people in shaping the future of their neighbourhood in how services are provided.
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Mainstreaming - Realigning the allocation of mainstream resources - such as the police and health services - to better target the most deprived areas. www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=11
Milestones - Key events with dates, marking stages in the progress of a project or programme.
Monitoring - Regular collection and analysis of input, output and outcome data, along with information concerning the problems being tackled.
Multipliers - The additional or second level effects of a programme
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Partnerships - Partnerships vary greatly in how they are established and resourced and how they operate. There are no defining features for partnerships but they should bring together representatives from different sectors and different communities of interest to agree and work towards common goals. Organisations which bring together representatives of those who have an interest in the local area such as local authorities, health trusts, businesses, voluntary organisations, and residents groups.
Project appraisal - The assessment of particular projects to make sure that they provide value for money and that they will tackle the problem to be addressed.
Projects - The individual components or elements of an overall programme or scheme.
Public Service Agreements (PSA) - Deprivation will be tackled through the bending of main Departmental programmes such as the police and health services, to focus more specifically on the most deprived areas. Departments now have minimum targets to meet, which means that, for the first time, they will be judged on the areas where they are doing worst, and not just on averages.
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SME - Short for small and medium sized enterprises ie companies employing fewer than 250 employees
Social Entrepreneurs - The equivalent of business entrepreneurs, but operating in the social, not-for profit sector. They aim to seek new and innovative solutions to social problems.
Social Exclusion - The Government has defined social exclusion as being a shorthand label for what can happen when individuals or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health and family breakdown. It can also have a wider meaning which encompasses the exclusion of people from the normal exchanges, practices and rights of society.
Sustainable Development - Activity which achieves mutually reinforcing economic, social and environmental benefits without compromising the needs of future generations.
Synergy - Added value arising from the working together of two or more organisations.
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