BazO Citizens muscle Consumer muscle
Who has the power?
Who has the power? Mobilise, organise
Cooperation, tune in to each other, connection If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together
BAZO is a learning environment for everyone, citizens, professionals, local government, housing corporations Route to Success
BazO: Coachteam+ September/October 2013: Training Coachteam+ 6 day workshop, citizens + professionals Communication (listening), Cooperation, Leadership, Organisation, Conflict management, Critical Balance, Feedback, Positivity & Abundance, Inclusivity, Local Economy, Sustainability, Facilitation skills
BazO: Community Mapping November 2013 2 day workshop, citizens + professionals What is there: people, associations, institutions? How can we improve the quality of life in the neighbourhood? DREAMS: Bigger than self, Sustainable, Inclusive
BazO: Project Pitch December 2013 1 day: citizens + potential mandaters Neighbourhood atomiser, Slotecabana, Wobo, Local garden, Care in Time, Elderly and gymnastics, Safety, Women, Local currency, Healthy food, Obesitas, Keti Koti
BazO: Business-plans Januari Maart 2014: Work with a coach Talks with potential mandaters (Wobo, Lucafé)
Action week BazO April - juni 2014: preparation From projectplan to specific assignment 4 meetings: joint planning, programming, budgetting
Action week BazO Juni 2014: execution Action, cooperation, learning context, celebration, FOOTBALL! 1 week: Citizens together at work Neighbourhood atomiser, Wobo, Local garden, Care Market, Elderly and gymnastics, Lucafé, Healthy Food, Keti Koti
Ideas, projects, plans, assignments, enterprises in the BazO Action Week (AW)
Vegetable & herbs garden 32 piles 60 planks 16 m3 ground 1.280 liters hydro granules 1 truckload wood chips 7 pots of paint 200 plants 475 hours of voluntary work
Catering 800 rolls 70 crops of salad 20 packages of rucola 10 kilo onions 15 kilo tomato s 240 egs 4 kilo cheese 5 kilo meat products 24 cans tomato sargdines 50 packs fruit juice 20 kilo chicken filet 8 kilo minced meat 200 kilo fruits Invested in cooling & freezing & 4 RVS worktables. 520 hours of voluntary work
PR & Communications 5 flyers 5500 distributed 3 posters 300 distributed 2 types T-shirts 150 distributed 5 press releases balloon route around central building 6 information boards inside & ouside Promotion teams on the street Magizine about the Action Week for volunteers & others, 500 copies Active group page on Facebook Mini-documentary in the make 400 hours of voluntary work
Markt for care 80 local care suppliers invited 20 standholders on the market 35 visitors Lively contact between care suppliers 80 hours of voluntary work
Wobo maintenance 35 litres of paint 5 litres cleaning fluids 100 m2 wall painted 40 metres railing painted Workplanning with mandater Investment in tools 160 hours of voluntary work
Keti Koti 165 meter of textile processed into clothing 75 kilo ingrediënts for meals & snacks 110 participants in events 100 visitors to the closing party AT5, Nice Nieuw West, Westerpost, Salto, Markt Radio 600 hours of voluntary work
Gymnastic objects at Sloterplas Looking for 30.000 funding for realising the project. Fundraising afternoon and evening with meals, drinks, workshops 100 hours of voluntary work
Management of building de Deo Making the building ready for use, install lights, clean walls and windows, floors & kitchen, kitchen furniture, cooling, coffe & tea, dish washer, tables, chairs.. Daily opening & closing, cleaning etc. 250 hours of voluntary work
BAZO Action Week: Voluntary work HOURS OF VOLUNTARY WORK PREPARA -TION ADMIN EXECUTI- ON TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED Vegetables & herbs garden 60 40 375 475 12 Catering 50 20 450 520 10 Communicatio 60 20 320 400 4 Market for care 30 10 40 80 4 Wobo maintenance 30 10 120 160 6 Keti Koti 100 100 400 600 15 Gymnastic objects 40 20 40 100 2 Management Deo 30 20 200 250 5 TOTAAL 400 240 1.945 2.585 58
State of affairs & way forward
Evaluation What went well? What went less well? How should we do things different? What is needed now? Accountability Financial reporting Internal and external (funder)?
Move on! How do we continue together? How do we organize bigger? How about a coöperative?
Since november 2014 Weekly meetings core-group Conflict around central space solved Coaching individual projects: building organization, finding scale, earning models? Citizens & network meeting in February Establishing Cooperative BazO Goals?, Activities? Finance? Members? 1st management board? Dealing with financial insecurity
January 2015 3 day training with 15 volunteers Facilitation team includes 3 citizens from the 1st group
Who more is involved in the follow up?