Intergenerational Community Cohesion Project

Location

Senior Project Worker: Lorna Jacques

We aim to improve young people and older people's experience of living together in their community. It is a three year project (2010 – 2013) that is focussed on four areas in Greenwich; Horn Park, Middle Park, Glyndon and Plumstead Common.

We work with young people (aged 10 – 17) and older people (aged 50+).Throughout this project, we will engage all parts of the community in the project: from Greenwich Local Authority, Police and Housing to Community Centres, Schools, faith groups and local businesses.

We will run workshops and sessions in the four areas:Helping young people and older people to get to a point when they can co-deliver training. Promoting positive responses to conflict through our Conflict, Communication and Community programmesSharing skills, promoting intergenerational contact and building trust across the community.

Throughout all of our work we seek to find out and address perceptions of young and older people, and use the input of the participants to shape the project.Ultimately, we want to see a positive community spirit that has been developed in all four areas that can and will continue after the three years of the project.

Packs to download

• Project information pack
• Conflict, communication and community programme
• Intergenerational school project
• Activities for community settings