Making It Happen: Turning Good Ideas Into Great Results

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The Making It Happen project uses an Asset based approach to support and develop communities to help improve their neighbourhoods across 5 areas of Sussex including Hampden Park, Willingdon Trees and Shinewater in the Eastbourne area. As part of that role we map and connect with assets which can be individuals, groups, buildings, businesses or public sector organisations as well as the skills, talents and passions of residents in a community

Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up

After becoming a mum during the pandemic, the opportunity to work alongside communities through the Making it Happen project developed a deeper understanding of people and the importance of collaboration and empowerment in communities. Support: We know computers, we know business, we know accounts and of course we know Sage 50. If you need a solution we can provide it. We offer support for all users of all levels from a Receptionist to an Accountant to a Director, all are as important to us as they are to you. The group Edible Eastbourne led by Sara and other local volunteers helped to establish the Eastbourne Food Partnership and was the first local group to plant edible landscaping in public parks and reintroduce a heritage Eastbourne apple variety to the public realm.Integration: Disjointed systems that require re-keying of data are plain wrong. We join things up, create automated systems, eliminating errors and saving time. Sage 50 Specialists: Pay-as-you-go Support, Sage Reports, Excel Reports, Consultancy, Integration, Help, Advice and more! A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

Send us your ideas - Making It Happen

Flo is here to listen to your ideas, initiatives or projects that might benefit the Shinewater community, bring people together or create greater opportunities for the area. Sara naturally works in an Asset Based way focusing on the strengths and skills in the community and how to make those strengths a benefit to all. She has experience and knowledge of setting up and running various types of community projects, groups and events and can support you with co-design, engagement and participatory activities Asset-based community development begins with the gifts of people and their capacity to organize to create the world they want to see’ ( ABCD Institute).”We are also supporting groups such as Compass Community Arts and Bourne This Way LGBTQ+ parent support group CIC with their outreach and engagement work in the Making it Happen communities. Making it Happen is about discovering, celebrating and building on the positive things in our local neighbourhoods. We are here to support communities to come together, make the most of the opportunities and create positive change. Sara won funds to set up a sustainability focused social enterprise and worked with local galleries and art groups to plan and deliver workshops and interpretive activities, training as an artist educator and helping to set up DC Learn as part of the Devonshire Collective. We are not general I.T. support; (we will help if you need and if we can but it is not our core business)

Making It Happen

The Making it Happen team can offer advice about how to form a group, connect and signpost you to local groups, advice, and networks and we can spark your idea into action with small pots of funding. Making It Happen focuses on working with residents to build on the good things in a community by supporting your ideas to become new projects or events that benefit your area. Sara was involved in leading the conversation about local food and championing the environment and sustainability through work with the Transition Network and the Incredible Edible Network. The group was approached by Facebook to be one of the groups involved as part of the awareness raising activities for their first garden at the Chelsea Flower show in 2019, which won Gold and saw Sara attending the show on press day to represent local food, community growing and projects using social media to make real change happen in their communities.

Making it Happen has supported projects like the Youth Voice , Crafty Trees & Toddler Allotment groups in Willingdon Trees as well as the Hampden Park Shed and Let’s Get Together group in Hampden Park and the Shinewater Newsletter and Santa’s Workshop event in Shinewater . Services: We offer a range of services for Sage 50, mostly on our hourly rate but there are some at a fixed price e.g. for Data Repair. This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.