Increasing opportunities in our communities
We are offering our residents, their families and their communities real choices in the homes and services we provide to help create and support long-term sustainable communities. Our key targets are to:
- Improve our quality of service.
- Enhance resident involvement.
- Provide exceptional performance.
- Offer value for money services.
- Offer our residents more training, learning, engagement and employment opportunities.
We are offering our residents, their families and their communities real choices in the homes and services we provide to help create and support long-term sustainable communities. Our key targets are to:
- Improve our quality of service.
- Enhance resident involvement.
- Provide exceptional performance.
- Offer value for money services.
- Offer our residents more training, learning, engagement and employment opportunities.
Accent Regeneration & Community Partnerships
Through Accent Regeneration & Community Partnerships, (AR&CP) we give our residents more choice and opportunity through engagement, capacity building, learning, skills, jobs, enterprise initiatives and environmental improvements.
Please read on to find out more about what we do or contact us if you would like to speak to someone.
Our range of activities
Resident engagement, developing learning and skills to help those in disadvantaged communities, and promoting enterprise, are all crucial elements in delivering sustainable communities. They are all key components of our work with people, in places and to create prosperity, and making our work more sustainable long-term.
People focused activities
Improving people’s lives by increasing their capacity to help themselves and benefit their community. Our work targets disadvantaged, under-represented and hard-to-reach groups; and our programmes involve construction, personal and social development, job search, short courses, equality and diversity, and learning and vocational skills.
Worklessness activities
Initial engagement, personal development, first step entry level training, mentoring, work placements, jobs and job support.
Prosperity focused activities
Increasing the capacity and efficiency of the local economy, mainly through business support and enterprise infrastructure.
Place focused activities
Increasing the capacity and efficiency of the local economy, mainly through business support and enterprise infrastructure.
Please visit our training and engagement initiatives page to find out more, and our other regeneration initiatives page to see what other community activities we are involved with.
Our training and enterprise centres
Our four training centres and associated new business enterprise centre work within our local communities. Their work is designed to meet individual and local needs.
Barkerend Training Centre
Home to Accent Regeneration & Community Partnerships and Bradford YouthBuild Trust, who work together to deliver construction training programmes for 14 - 19+ age groups.
Burnley Training Centre
We work with ‘Elevate’ and ‘In Training’ to deliver apprenticeships, construction training, placements and mentoring support, with employability skills training and workshops for adults.
Middlesbrough Training Centre
We work in partnership with East Durham College to deliver NVQs in construction. We also deliver a level 1 construction training contract, which includes personal and social development, job search and enrichment.
Accent Business Centre
Our new office and workshop enterprise facility. It offers an excellent range of new industrial units and office suites aimed at starter businesses and community groups.
Housing Corporation Gold Award
Our work is unique, and helped us to win a Housing Corporation Gold Award for Tackling Worklessness in 2008.