Ann-Marie Pickup

Organisation
Charlestown and Lower Kersal New Deal for Communities (NDC)

Job title/role
Chair

E-mail address
ann-marie.pickup@salford.gov.uk

Website
www.chalk-ndc.info

Read NDC's partnership board minutes on their website

Area covered by organisation
Charlestown and Lower Kersal

Sector
NDC is a non-incorporated partnership, responsible for delivering the ten-year New Deal for Communities programme. Its membership is drawn from the community and voluntary sectors, the city council, other public agencies, education and local businesses.

Organisation's aims/vision
The Charlestown and Lower Kersal New Deal for Communities partnership has overall responsibility for the strategic direction, delivery and management of the ten-year NDC regeneration programme (2001/02 - 2010/11). The overall vision for the NDC area is "to make Lower Kersal and Charlestown a place where people want to live, by building a community and future that engages everyone."

Organisation's key targets
The partnership has a wide range of outcomes it wishes to achieve over the life of the programme across the six areas:
- Building communities
- Crime and community safety
- Education, children and young people
- Physical environment
- Health
- Business, employment and skills

These are detailed fully in the partnership's delivery plan (2001-2011), copies of which are available at www.chalk-ndc.info/index/doing/delivery-plan.htm

Organisation's main activities in 2007
The partnership has a well-developed programme for 2007/08. It consists of 77 projects with an NDC budget of £6.383 million. Key elements include:
- A start on site for new housing on the former Kersal High School site
- Master planning on the Charlestown and Lower Kersal Riverside site
- Opening of the Neighbourhood Park and Salford Innovation Park
- The delivery of a range of projects through the other thematic areas listed above
- The development of a new commissioning framework for the partnerhip with a greater focus on links with the mainstream and evaluating what works
- The preparation of a succession strategy