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Toolkit
Toolkit
Want to reach a stronger, brighter future? Start here! Simple advice and ideas on how to make your own community more sustainable.
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Factsheet Categories
Factsheet Categories
Active, Inclusive and Safe
Happy, healthy, friendly neighbourhoods
Environmentally Sensitive
Improve your area, protect the planet
Fair for Everyone
Equal, fair, inclusive
General help
Funding, planning, volunteers
Thriving
Support your local economy
Well Connected
Transport & communication
Well Run
Organising communities
Well Served
Services to support people

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Welcome
Welcome
Welcome to the Brighter Futures Together toolkit. It has lots of information and ideas to help you improve your local community. It covers all sorts of issues, like health, youth, climate change, green space and safety.
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Get Involved
Get Involved
If you want to live in a happier, more sustainable community and want to embed sustainable development in the heart of your community . . .
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Projects
Projects
Actual projects bring these factsheets to life. Read about local projects happening in the North East, and tell us about what you're up to . . .

New Projects
GIRLS Textback Service
<P>The introduction of a confidential, sexual health text back service for teenage girls in Chester-le-Street. </P>
GIRLS Textback Service
Sunderland Homezone
The New Herrington doorstep green and Home Zone project was developed to create a doorstep green and Home Zone (a residential street, or group of streets, designed for the community and not for motorised transport such as cars or motorcycles) on approximately two hectares of neglected green space in the centre of New Herrington, Sunderland.
Sunderland Homezone
Blyth Heritage Network
<P>The Blyth Heritage Network was set by a number of individuals and heritage groups in and around Blyth, Northumberland (totalling about 20 members).The network aimed to establish Heritage Open Days within the District of Blyth and to highlight to local residents the importance of their local heritage and how they could become more actively involved.  </P>
Blyth Heritage Network
The Medomsley Allotment
<P>The Medomsley Allotment was created to provide an accessible allotment for local communities and schools to use. The project was completed as part of the larger 'Allotments for All' scheme in Derwentside which aimed to promote and encourage the use of allotments and community gardens to encourage healthy lifestyles. </P>
Created to provide an accessible allotment for local communities and schools to use.
The Green Gym programme – North East
<P>The Green Gym programme was developed to help people keep fit as well as providing opportunities to gain training in horticulture and improving job prospects.</P> <P>It is delivered in partnership with local agencies to promote activities using local green spaces, such as nature reserves, allotments and community gardens. Doctors also refer patients onto local green gym schemes via the exercise referral scheme. </P>
Developed to help people keep fit as well as providing opportunities to gain training in horticulture and improving job prospects
Fish Quay Community Project
<P>The Fish Quay Community Project was designed to produce a character statement for the Fish Quay Conservation Area (North Shields) in order to help its preservation and enhancement.  </P>
Fish Quay Community Project

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