Kilmarnock South-West Hub

Kilmarnock South-West Place Based Hub

This page is designed to help you get to know the team and the services that operate in the Kilmarnock South-West Place Based Hub. Please take some time to look through this page to reflect about your own work and to think about ways that other teams/organisations could help to complement the work that goes on in Kilmarnock South-West.

What is Place based Working?

Place-based working can help you feel better informed of who and what services are available when serving the communities of Kilmarnock South-West.

By being better informed of services, this approach allows us to have more knowledge about how the various services that can help to complement one another and support the communities we work in.

Here are some practical examples that Place Based Working can achieve:

Example 1:

A community member has been having issues with their bins and had spent the last day on the phone to the council trying to get the best person to talk to. Whilst at a place-based meeting the community worker was introduced to Cleaner Communities and through the meeting they were able to get the best person to ask for advice and take this issue on which resulted in the community member meeting the person from the right department the next day.

Example 2:

"From the Place Based Hub I have been able to link in with other teams such as The Neighbourhood Coaches to link them in with the support that Life Skills Inclusion could offer to the tenants of East Ayrshire."

Michelle - Life Skills Inclusion

Example 3:

From Place Based Hubs there were discussions about the cooking classes that are running within the community and how we could best link in with other teams to support the participants. some of the participants have now moved onto positive destinations such as Homework Clubs or Health and Wellbeing Courses.

Partnership Working

Kilmarnock South-West, like many areas, face challenges. However, the areas also possess a wealth of untapped assets within the community. Place Based Working involves bridging the gap between organisations and the community to build connections, foster collaboration by focusing on strengths, and building more resilient and thriving communities.

Over the last year in Kilmarnock South there has been a focus on collaboration and connections within the community and we will be running quarterly networking events which will involve various local authority and third sector organisations to connect, learn and collaborate. As budgets are being reduced and less resources are available to communities it is important that we are connected with one another and think about best ways of collaborating and complimenting one another work within the community.

From the quarterly meetings we have already seen great examples of partnership work and connections such as:

• EACHA working in partnership with The Well to bring various activities within the community;
• Rainbow Food Larder making connections with COGS, UCAN and The Well to think about ways of reducing food waste;
• The Lounge making connections with The Well about potentially using their space within the church;
• CVO being more involved in the community and making connections such as the Health Team delivering in Our Wee Place;
• Involving all of the organisations locally with the community action plan and analysis to improve the understanding of local needs;
• More people being referred through the networks and the community being more informed of What’s On in their local community as the network has been working on a weekly calendar of social activities;
• Life Skills and Inclusion Team have visited COGS to think about ways of utilising the community space;
• Staff being more informed of what’s going on in the community and who to turn to when situations happen such as people to contact if community members are in crisis;
• UCAN are now taking the left over food from Rainbow Food Larder that would be going to landfill. UCAN are now using this food to create frozen meals that are going back to the larder for their members;
• COGS making Bellfield Community Council their bird feeders and having UCAN paint them;
• For more information about some of What's On within Kilmarnock South Please follow the following link for more information Kilmarnock South What's On.