RE:form

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Our
RE:form
programme

RE:form
is
a
resource
for
potential,
prospective
and
practicing
councillors,
and
 parliamentarians
in
all
main
political
parties
that
broadly
share
the
aims
objectives,
values
 and
principles
of
the
charity.
We
also
offer
RE:form
to
political
groups,
alliances
and
trades
 unions.
 
 The
RE:form
concept
is
based
on
the
“Root
Solution
‐
Listening
Matters”
approach
to
 engagement
and
empowerment
of
citizens.

It
introduces
the
concept
of
the
“politician
as
 facilitator”
who
will
promote
an
invigorated
proactive
and
refreshed
politics
that
inspires
 and
re‐engages
people
on
their
terms
‐
and
helps
transform
institutional
behaviours.
 
 The
proposition
is
to
teach
politicians
to
understand
and
apply
the
listening
and
 transformation
skills
that
RE:generate
has
developed
over
the
past
20
years
to
find
and
grow
 leaders,
customers,
clients,
volunteers
and
voters
who
support
activities
that
develop
local
 culture,
economy,
cohesion
and
environment
within
strategically
developed
and
managed
 networks.

 
 A
politician
or
community
leader
trained
by
RE:generate
will
become
a
key
facilitator
who
 can
work
very
effectively
with
the
activists
and
social
entrepreneurs
who
emerge
through
a
 Root
Solution
‐
Listening
Matters
programme
helping
them
to
implement
the
practical,
 public
service

and
political
change
people
need
and
want
.

 
 A
deeply
rooted
mandate
for
action
grows
and
develops
from
the
listening
and
dialogue
 process
in
neighbourhoods
and
communities,
and
programmes
of
activity
are
planned
and
 developed.

As
social
enterprises
and
projects
emerge,
people
are
supported
to
take
actions
 to
improve
services
and
tackle
key
community
issues

‐
and
to
work
closely,
assertively
and
 professionally
with
agencies
and
authorities.

People
become
steadily
much
more
engaged
 in
the
running
of
their
neighbourhood
‐
alongside
their
politicians.


 
 The
Listening
Matters
analysis
of
people’s
individual
and
collective
concerns
and
aspirations
 informs
all
the
activities
and
always
reflects
the
views
of
between
one
and
five
thousand
 people.
Financial
and
political
sustainability
are
built
into
the
strategy:
almost
everybody
 takes
an
action
at
some
level.
The
very
least
people
do
within
a
Listening
Matters
network
is
 to
vote
–
and
they
do
so
from
an
informed
perspective.

 
 The
payback
for
the
politician
who
executes
the
process
well
is
that
they
will
identify
key
 leaders
who
will
set
up
projects
to
tackle
concerns.

They
will
also

develop
a
network
of
 users,
customers,
clients
and
volunteers
‐
and
people
who
promise
to
vote.
They
will
find
 people
who
become
interested
in
joining
a
political
party
and
possibly
even
standing
for
 office.

 
 A
good
politician
will
facilitate
and
never
dominate
the
team
and
network.
She
will
have
 access
to
a
powerful
database
of
names,
addresses,
emails
and
phone
contacts
for
hundreds
 and
often
thousands
of
constituents
–
as
long
as
she
has
built
the
trust,
respect
and
 relationships
that
lie
at
the
heart
of
a
successful
network.
 
 
 ©
Action
to
Regenerate
Community
Trust
2011

A
typical
“Root
Solution
–
Listening
Matters”
network
gets
behind
its
leaders.
After
two
 years
work
an
accountable
and
facilitative
politician
will
hold
their
seat
‐
or
gain
a
seat
by
 dislodging
those
who
are
failing
to
serve
their
community.
“Root
Solution
–
Listening
 Matters”
dovetails
well
with
party
campaign
plans
–
it’s
a
strategy
to
win
and
a
strategy
to
 hold
a
seat
in
the
best
interests
of
local
people
and
the
common
good.
 
 It
is
worth
remembering
that
Listening
Matters
develops
trust,
respect
and
relationships
 between
individuals
and
across
communities.
A
full
time
politician
can
connect
and
engage
 with
5000
people
over
12
months.

Why
RE:form
:

why
RE:generate
does
this
work
with
politicians

 In
the
last
20
years
RE:generate
has
worked
to
develop
a
process
of
community
and
political
 transformation
that
is
rooted
in
Britain.
It
is
not
imported
from
the
America’s.
It
completely
 reflects
the
culture,
concerns
and
aspirations
of
the
people
of
these
islands
and
it
recognises
 the
cry
from
the
nation
for
a
new
political
system
that
engages,
encourages
and
leads.
 We
have
listened
to
over
300,000
people
in
inner
cities,
towns,
villages,
streets,
pubs,
 churches,
boardrooms,
living
rooms
and
fields.
We
have
heard
that
people
are
deeply
 concerned,
frustrated,
worried
and
angry.
We
have
built
a
process
that
offers
the
 opportunity
for
people
and
politics
to
transform
through
actions
and
not
words.
That
fits
 with
the
mission
of
the
charity.
 People
need
much
more
from
their
politicians
than
representation.
They
want
a
particular
 leadership.
Our
listening
over
many
years
has
made
that
clear
and
informed
our
strategy
as
 it
has
organically
developed.

 RE:generate
is
now
offering
this
strategy
and
process
to
all
the
main
political
parties
because
 they,
and
the
wider
public,
all
acknowledge
that
political
renewal
is
vital
for
the
 transformation
and
sustainable
development
of
our
communities
and
nation.
Peace
making,
 community
and
nation
building
are
at
the
heart
of
this
strategy.
 We
offer
a
one
day
RE:form
presentation
package
;
a
two
day
introductory
workshop
and
 ongoing
support
by
arrangement.
We
will
also
work
with
local
authorities
and
public
 agencies
as
part
of
a
public
engagement
and
equalities
strategy
to
help
up‐skill
officers
and
 councillors
in
the
whole
transformational
process.
These
may
then
choose
to
deliver
a
full
 Root
Solution
‐
Listening
Matters
programme
themselves
under
license,
or
they
may
prefer
 to
build
a
deeper
understanding
of
potential
impacts
by
commissioning
an
independent
 delivery
agent.


 If
you
want
to
know
more
contact
Stephen
Kearney
stephen.kearney@regeneratetrust.org

©
Action
to
Regenerate
Community
Trust
2011

About
RE:generate
 RE:generate
is
a
charitable
trust
(Reg.
No.
1078551)
with
an
enterprising
approach
and
social
 action
ethos.
Its
objectives
are
to
tackle
the
root
causes
of
poverty
and
inequality.
It
does
 this
by
systematic
listening
that
engages
individuals
and
animates
communities
to
develop
 and
deliver
solutions
to
problems
they
face;
and
by
supporting
and
delivering
personal
and
 local
development
programmes,
popular
education
and
enterprising
networked
action
that
 has
a
transformative
impact
on
behaviours,
public
services
and
organisational
structures.

 Over
20
years
of
holistic
development
experience
in
the
UK
and
overseas
the
RE:generate
 team
has
developed
a
unique
product
and
set
of
tools
that
are
now
increasingly
in
demand
 across
the
UK.
The
Cabinet
Office
is
actively
promoting
Community
Organising
as
a
key
plank
 in
the
promotion
and
support
of
an
invigorated
civil
society,
a
transformed
public
sector
and
 more
local
governance.

RE:generate
is
now
nationally
recognised
as
a
key
organisation
to
 train,
support
and
potentially
place
community
organisers
across
England.

 RE:generate’s
Root
Solution
‐
Listening
Matter’s
process
builds
community
leadership
and
 capacity,

sustainability
and
resilience.
Combining
elements
of
Freire
and
Alinsky,
social
 enterprise
and
ecology,
the
model,
network
strategy
and
tools
take
community
 development
to
the
next
stage
–
beyond
informing
and
influencing
to
shared
responsibility
 and
accountability.


 
 RE:generate
has
worked
with
a
range
of
organisations
and
agencies
in
a
number
of
 successful
projects
and
contexts
across
the
UK
–
most
recently
in
Bath
&
NE
Somerset
and
 Wigan,
but
also
Sheffield,
Poole,
Plymouth,
Newcastle,
North
Tyneside,
Glasgow,
Leeds,
 London,
Christchurch,
Dorset.

 As
well
as
the
RE:form
programme
for
political
leaders,
we
offer
consultancy
and
training
 programmes
for
schools
(RE:educate),
and
faith
groups
(RE:congregate)
and
are
developing
 special
interest
packages
in
relation
to
community
planning
(RE:plan),
community
and
social
 enterprise,
and
health.

©
Action
to
Regenerate
Community
Trust
2011

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