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We need a few details about your organisation and its work, which will accompany your action plan on the NSPA website and ensure that searches are filtered correctly.

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Organisation Name developmentplus
Organisation address Queens Park Community Hub
South Park
Lincoln
LN5 8EW
Website http://developmentplus.org.uk/
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About the organisation developmentplus (the trading name of Lincoln Community Development Worker Project, formerly known locally as LCDP), is a community development organisation which has worked across the county of Lincolnshire since 1997. We are a registered charity and company limited by guarantee.

We work alongside people in their community, facilitating their involvement in decisions that affect their lives, supporting them to identify and develop initiatives that they feel will improve their quality of life socially, environmentally, economically and through learning.

All of our work in Lincoln and Lincolnshire is based on the values of community development, working alongside people and not imposing our views on them but valuing their skills and abilities, ensuring their participation and providing opportunities for their personal development.
Which region(s) does your organisation cover?
  • East Midlands
What sector does your organisation work in?
  • Voluntary and Community Sector
What area(s) does your organisation work in?
  • Support
  • Community Care
  • Housing & Homelessness
  • Mental Health
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Training

Details of nominated lead contact

As set out in the NSPA's Membership Agreement, member organisations should have a nominated lead contact that has the delegated authority to represent the organisation and vote at members' meetings.

Title Mrs
First Name Naomi
Last Name Watkins-Ligudzinska
Role within organisation Operations Manager
Email address naomi.watkins-ligudzinska@developmentplus.org.uk
Contact number 07772532185
As the nominated lead contact for your organisation are you happy for your contact details to be shared with other NSPA members? Yes

Details of additional contact #1

If there are colleagues within your organisation that should be included in any NSPA member communications in addition to you, as the lead contact, please provide details of their name, role and contact details. Their details will be added to the membership database.

Please note that for the purpose of any NSPA elections or other selected activities where voting/ input is limited to one representative of the organisation, the lead contact will be contacted in the first instance.

Title Mrs
First Name Lynsey
Last Name Collinson
Role within organisation CEO
Email address lynsey.collinson@developmentplus.org.uk
Contact number 01522 543361
As a nominated contact for your organisation, are you happy for these contact details to be shared with other NSPA members? Yes

Details of additional contact #2

Title Mr
First Name
Last Name
Role within organisation
Email address
Contact number
As a nominated contact for your organisation, are you happy for these contact details to be shared with other NSPA members? Yes

Details of additional contact #3

Title Mr
First Name
Last Name
Role within organisation
Email address
Contact number
As a nominated contact for your organisation, are you happy for these contact details to be shared with other NSPA members? Yes

Action Plan

The NSPA believes that everyone has a part to play in reducing the number of suicides and better supporting those affected by suicide. The NSPA's Action Plans are about demonstrating this; by publically sharing what work your organisation is doing to tackle issues relating to suicide, it demonstrates the broad range of actions an organisation can take - no matter how big or small - and encourages other organisations to become members themselves and take action.

The NSPA Declaration lists seven outcomes to reduce suicide and improve support for those bereaved or affected by suicide that it believes its members can work together to achieve (see "The difference we aim to make").

How does your organisation contribute to preventing suicide and supporting those affected by it? - Empowering residents in the community to acknowledge, talk about and address their health issues, including signposting them to the relevant health professionals.
- Providing programmes of training and support to enable individuals to overcome personal barriers.
- Working with strategic partners to tackle deprivation across Lincoln and Greater Lincoln.
- Developing volunteers, to ensure sustainability of support groups / community groups.
What are your current priorities? - Getting to know a community- of interest, identity, location
- Finding out what they see as their needs and issues that concern them
- Bringing people together to agree their aims and make plans to realise them
- Encouraging people to work together effectively in a group and with other groups and communities
- Assisting groups to decide how best to organise themselves- formal or informal systems and structures
- Supporting people together to learn from each other and to evaluate their activities
- Learning from their own practice through critical reflection as part of their continuous professional development
What challenges are you currently facing? - Multi-agency working
- Signposting to agencies that will support people who are suicidal and/or using substances
- Funding

Many thanks for taking the time to complete this membership registration form.

If you have any queries or would like to talk through any aspect of the form, please contact:

The NSPA Membership and Communications Officer, Juliette Worrall, on info@nspa.org.uk or 020 3621 5136