Regen-IT is a workshop centered around a highly interactive learning-simulation.
It considers real issues involved in developing sustainable regeneration schemes
and projects and was developed with assistance from Sefton Borough Partnership
and Sefton Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.

Overview

The sustainable regeneration of our communities will require:

	•	Improved health and fitness and decreased health inequalities
	•	Housing market renewal
	•	Improvements to the environment
	•	Reductions in crime and the fear of crime
	•	Support for young people
	•	Improved mobility, better public transport and reduced congestion
	•	Improvement to Learning, Jobs and Prosperity

A learning solution needs to show how these issues interrelate and how different neighbourhoods require different solutions. One size does not fit all. It needs to show how partnerships have to work together to achieve a sustainable solution and how mainstream services can be modified to achieve these aims.

“How quickly people became encouraged and involved, and gained a valuable experience of how complex regeneration is.”

Based upon national, regional and local data, Regen-IT requires delegates to develop solutions for a ‘Borough’, considering competing agendas/trade-offs and seeking win-win-win solutions that acknowledge individual views and create best-case solutions, for example:

	•	Decreasing the gap between different communities in terms of affluence and health
	•	Increasing community engagement, collaboration, team working and access
	•	Encouraging experts in various fields of the regeneration process to work together towards a common goal
	•	Being aware of all the separate entities that go towards implementing a successful regeneration strategy, and how each impacts on other areas

Regen-IT encourages teamwork, decision-making, devising and implementing strategy, resource management and investigates the nature of cause and effect. It relies on collaboration, communication and compromise (see benefits and outcomes).

Regen-IT at Liverpool

Key Objectives & Messages

	•	Improve the understanding of Regeneration.
	•	Consider how regeneration interleaves with mainstream funding and services.
	•	Understand the need to build strong and prosperous communities.
	•	Improve decision-making and problem solving in regeneration issues.

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