The CEN is an independant community network that champions community participation, and involvement in local decision making. we support the development of new community groups, community projects and the development of active citizenship amongst the neighbourhoods and communities across

St Helens.

"Be part of the change you want to see." 

Millennium House  Millennium Centre Corporation Street St Helens WA10 1HJ.

Tel 07411 931719

Exchange Visit to St Helens March 19th-25th 2012

Scoping Visit to Egypt

2nd-6th January 2012

St Helens CEN recently held a successful scoping visit to Egypt during January  2012. This visit took place prior to a full excahnge visit taking place as part of the Active Citizens programme. for full details look on the News Updates and Active Citizens pages of this site. 

St Helens CEN

What we have acheived so far........

In the last twelve months the Community Empowerment Network has 

-Participated in three exchange visits including hosting one in the UK and hosting a scoping visit. 

-Trained 21 people in the British Council Active Citizens training programme

-Conducted a community research project in Fingerpost on the theme of "Seldom Heard Voices in deprived communities in partnership with Cheshire Community Action.

-Supported the St Helens Council ward committees and Local Strategic Partnership. 

-Supported four community projects in Fingerpost

-Assisted in getting funding for a training programme in the Parr area. 

-Is sponsoring a community project in Georgia in partnership with Academy for Peace and Development. 

In the next step of our development CEN is establishing CENterprising St Helens Ltd an independent company which will aim to bring the development of new community enterprises, community projects, social action and sustainable change. 

User Friendly Websites

for Community Groups in St Helens: 

St Helens CEN has recently set up two new websites for community groups in St Helens. In our experience a lot of groups don't yet have a website and whilst many do, people can find them difficult to update due to a complex conetent management system. If any group is interested in having a simple website set up please contact us as we would only be too delighted to help you. An example of one of the sites we have set up is:

http://avenuestra.wordpress.com 

There is a small charge for this at £50 and we can also run a workshop on a one to one basis on using the content management system for £10 per person.