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	Ordsall Trust A Community Development Trust for Ordsall

We can do what other people do

If you go up Great Cheetham Street East in Broughton, you will see a big building on the corner (opposite McDonalds). It used to be a doctor's surgery, and at one time was the offices of Social Services. For the last few years, it's been the home of Broughton Trust.

In that building is a Resource Centre where you can get photocopies, documents typed up and leaflets made. Next door is the Training Room. They have Craft sessions on a Wednesday, regular meetings there and training events in subjects like Fundraising and Childcare. Upstairs are the offices of the Trust, as well as staff from the Neighbourhood Team. The Trust also employs staff to work on training development, community development and childcare issues. (They helped set up the Surestart Shop, opposite.)

We don't need any of that in Ordsall!

We're really lucky. We've already got most of it. If you want Craft, you can go to the Barracks office on a Monday night. The Neighbourhood Team already have an office on Robert Hall Street, and there's training there as well as at The Community Cafe on Tatton Street. (We've also got Ordsall Community Arts, which Broughton hasn't got!)

If you take a trip to Langworthy Road and journey up towards Buille Hill Park, you will pass the SALT Shop on the left. It's a shop-front, recently refurbished (and moved from the opposite side of the road, now demolished). In there are facilities for photcopying and computing, and people to give you advice on developing your community group, funding and coming developments in the area (it used to have government SRB5 money).

We don't need any of that in Ordsall!

We're very lucky. We've got our own Community Development Worker, based at The Everyone Centre. We've got computers at the Library (and the Community Cafe) and we've got our own Development Group, which meets monthly and keeps an eye on developments. We've also got our own new primary school coming, (years ahead of Langworthy), new shops (like them) and new houses and apartments (now just smartened up ones).

So what's the point of a Community Development Trust?

 

We can do what other people don't

The point of having a Community Development Trust in Ordsall is that it can do what other people aren't doing.

In Broughton and Langworthy, the Trusts are doing what they need to there. They are responding to demands put on them by residents, and working with them and Council staff and other agencies. Ordsall doesn't have to copy any of that, if it doesn't need to. If problems are being tackled, then the Trust has no remit to interfere. It has no requirement to get involved.

However, it can step in when required.

For instance, some groups in the area have needed help with fund-raising in the past. This may happen again in the future. The rules for claiming European funding have changed. From 2007 onwards they will not be accepting applications from small community groups. They want all local groups to work through a 'consortium'. That could be a local Trust.

So, if Ordsall Community Arts wanted to put in a bid for European Social Fund this year, they could do it through Ordsall Trust and would have a good chance of success. Meanwhile, other Ordsall groups might decide to join in with the application and would benefit from new funding coming into the area.

Ordsall Trust has the task of doing what it can to make the area a better place.

It can step in when no one else can, to improve Ordsall and help it become a better place to live.

A green and pleasant place to live