Partnership
approach
The CDCDT also works in partnership with a range of regional and
national organisations that have a complementary vision.
At
a District level the CDCDT has a partnership agreement with the
North Cornwall District Council, two Integrated Area Plans established
to develop Objective One projects and the Community Projects Trust.
At
a county level, the CDCDT is a partner of Go4 (the Information,
Advice and Guidance Partnership that is a key element of the Government’s
lifelong learning strategy and is affiliated to the Cornwall Development
Trust Forum.
At
a regional level the CDCDT works in partnership with the South
West Regional Development Agency, the Countryside Agency and other
regional government bodies to deliver the Market & Coastal
Towns Initiative.
Nationally,
the Trust is a full member of the Development Trusts Association.
The years of experience accumulated by the Camelford Town Forum
and the Delabole Development Group provide the direction for The
CDCDT. This includes a number of nascent projects and a significant
amount of research has been carried out to determine and prioritise
the projects required:
· The Camelford Economic Regeneration Feasibility Report
(Jonathan Ball May 2000)
· An Economic, Social & Environmental Analysis of Delabole
(Thorne, CPT, June 2000)
· Camelford Building Condition Survey (Pilkington 2000)
· The Community Questionnaire Survey (DDG, March 2001)
· The Electric Shuttle Bus Feasibility Study (G Barrett,
October 2001)
The
Trust took on the responsibility for facilitating the Market &
Coastal Towns Initiative in the Area of Benefit in May 2002. The
Trust has since taken on the role of accountable body for the
MCTi and has managed a £25,000 grant to lead the process.
In October 2002 the CDCDT organised a comprehensive community
consultation event, a Michaelmas Fair, that included a Planning
for Real™ exercise as discussed in section 2. The event
attracted over 800 participants and achieved a broader understanding
regarding sustainable development within the community as well
as an increased public profile for the Trust. The MCTi process
and the consultation event have informed the development of a
community strategic plan, currently being written by the Trust,
that will be taken to a ‘brokering table’ of partner
agencies and funding bodies before the end of 2003.
The
beauty of the rural and isolated North Cornwall parishes of Camelford
and Delabole belies the changes within and the external impacts
on the area which have lead to social and economic exclusion and
environmental pressures facing the community. The Camelford and
Delabole Community Development Trust, a community led partnership,
impacts positively and directly on the exclusion and decline of
the area. Building on their own efforts, encouraged by the increase
in funds available for regeneration in rural areas and the emphasis
on “bottom-up” development, the community is taking
steps to regenerate the area.
The
CDCDT has worked with the community to build a long-term vision
of a sustainable community for the area. This is interpreted as
a community that lives within its means by acknowledging its many
assets, addressing its responsibilities and taking decisions for
change determined by environmental, social and economic priorities.
To achieve this vision the CDCDT’s mission is to
carry out projects that achieve an economically, socially, and
environmentally sustainable community.
