Uzma | Community Development Worker (North Oldham)
Email meWhat is my role:
Community Development Worker covering North Oldham (Royton, Shaw and Crompton)
To work as a key part of the Action Together team to lead, develop and deliver place-based approaches that:
● Maximise opportunities to create positive social change, promote social justice and harness social benefit in a place.
● Strengthen the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector to respond to local need and make them more robust.
● Engage local stakeholders to identify challenges and opportunities and develop collaborative solutions that improve the lives of residents.
● Identify, develop, and support thematic work that reaches across the borough to support equality.
What most excites me about this role:
To actively engage individuals, groups and organisations to enable them to set goals, make improvements and respond to various asks and respond through empowerment and active participation. To identify local community skills, assets, issues and needs to ensure positive outcomes. To believe, you can make a lasting change.
What drew me to work at Action Together:
I have worked within the VCFSE sector for over 27 years for a local medium sized charity based in Oldham. Throughout my various challenges in seeking funding, accessing training, sharing resources, creating partnerships and networking I used the services of Action Together. I always wanted to, one day be able to share my experience, knowledge, skills with other individuals, groups and organisations to develop a passion, idea, project and bring it to LIFE through Action Together.
My hopes for Oldham are:
To see passion, ideas, challenges come to life that will have a lasting impact within the Oldham community. Make Oldham a prosperous, adventurous and happy place to live in.