Cllr Sue Anderson

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• Cllr Sue Anderson
• Cabinet Member, Adults and Communities
• Corporate Third Sector Champion

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• Straw poll
• Do you feel you can influence decisions locally?
• (NI 4)

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• Participation and representation
• Councillors are active citizens
• Mutual respect vital
• Local actions x many people real change
• Act together in neighbourhoods strategically

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ACTIVE CITIZENS, MEMBERS OFFICERS CHAMPION
ASSET TRANSFER IN BIRMINGHAM
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Linda Hines MBE Resident Director Witton Lodge
Community Association www.wittonlodge.org.uk
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• People make better places
• Linda Hines MBE
• Director, Witton Lodge Community Assoc
• Got involved when estate faced demolition
• Built skills confidence thro training
• Key success asset transfer

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• Older people driving change
• Anne Shearer OBE Barry Clewer
• Carers who became campaigners
• Champion THEIR agenda transport, adaptations,
  info
• Act strategically Joint Commissioning Board
• Key successes
• Single phone number
• Care Centre design

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Cllr Anderson Barry Clewer
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Anne Shearer OBE
From Badische Neueste Nachrichten, 28 March 2008
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• Straw poll again
• Are you (now) more optimistic about your
  potential to achieve change locally?
• (I hope so!)