After becoming a mum during the pandemic, the opportunity to work alongside communities through the Making it Happen project developed a deeper understanding of people and the importance of collaboration and empowerment in communities. Integration: Disjointed systems that require re-keying of data are plain wrong. We join things up, create automated systems, eliminating errors and saving time. Asset-based community development begins with the gifts of people and their capacity to organize to create the world they want to see’ ( ABCD Institute).”

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The Making it Happen team can offer advice about how to form a group, connect and signpost you to local groups, advice, and networks and we can spark your idea into action with small pots of funding. This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. We are also supporting groups such as Compass Community Arts and Bourne This Way LGBTQ+ parent support group CIC with their outreach and engagement work in the Making it Happen communities. The group Edible Eastbourne led by Sara and other local volunteers helped to establish the Eastbourne Food Partnership and was the first local group to plant edible landscaping in public parks and reintroduce a heritage Eastbourne apple variety to the public realm.We are not general I.T. support; (we will help if you need and if we can but it is not our core business)

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Sara naturally works in an Asset Based way focusing on the strengths and skills in the community and how to make those strengths a benefit to all. She has experience and knowledge of setting up and running various types of community projects, groups and events and can support you with co-design, engagement and participatory activities Making it Happen has supported projects like the Youth Voice , Crafty Trees & Toddler Allotment groups in Willingdon Trees as well as the Hampden Park Shed and Let’s Get Together group in Hampden Park and the Shinewater Newsletter and Santa’s Workshop event in Shinewater . Sara can listen to your ideas for projects that might benefit the Hampden Park community, help support your good ideas to develop into a community project, bring people together or support creating greater opportunities for the area. If a few of your neighbours were willing to help, what would you love to do to make your community a better place to live?Sage 50 Specialists: Pay-as-you-go Support, Sage Reports, Excel Reports, Consultancy, Integration, Help, Advice and more! Making it Happen is about discovering, celebrating and building on the positive things in our local neighbourhoods. We are here to support communities to come together, make the most of the opportunities and create positive change.