Inspire East champions the creation of high quality places to live, work and visit.  Our aim is to deliver the knowledge, skills and advice that will inspire you to use and apply best practice.  To help us achieve this aim, Inspire East has recruited experts from across the sustainable communities field to form an Enabling Panel.

Inspire East can draw Enablers from this Panel to add value and provide support to projects in the East of England.  The provision of independent advice will help projects to overcome difficult issues and improve the scheme outcome. 

The work of the Enabling Service offers advice on topics within the wide ranging Sustainable Communities agenda. The aim of Enabling is to help the service user to progress the project, rather than actually undertaking those tasks for them.

Inspire East's Enabling Service is available to:

• Schemes of regional significance as defined by their scale, nature or replicability.
• Schemes which require help through facilitation, raising skill levels and early support to progress.

Service users will have to:

• Identify key areas requiring independent guidance
• Take due consideration of the guidance and recommendations of the Enabler

Outcome:

The contribution of the Enabler will strengthen the skill base and quality of the scheme through sharing knowledge and raising expectations.

An Enabler will usually be involved as early as possible in the project life cycle.  They may be involved with assisting the user with the development of a brief for a project; advising on procurement or project set-up; assistance with community engagement; or providing guidance and help where a project may have stalled.

Inspire East has set up the Enabling service to be complementary to existing services, such as CABE's Enabling services. For further information on this please contact Inspire East.

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