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SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE:
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AREA PROFILE !
South Gloucestershire has one of the fastest growing populations in the South West, and the area is
the second largest of the four unitary authorities of the West of England sub-region. The area of
Kingswood, which borders Bristol, was a mining area and suffered through the decline of traditional
industry. South Gloucestershire unitary authority area was formed in 1996 following the merger of
Northavon District, a mainly rural area, and Kingswood Borough, a mainly urban area east of Bristol.
Much of the recent and projected growth is a result of the building of large new housing estates and
the arrival into the area of large employers such as the MOD and Friends Life Insurance (formerly
AXA). The voluntary sector has developed in recent years and CVS South Gloucestershire is now well
established and supported by the Local Authority, and works in partnership with other statutory
agencies and community anchor organisations to support groups across the area. South
Gloucestershire is part of the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area.
Headlines: six Priority Neighbourhoods are within the
• South Gloucestershire is one of the fastest Bristol conurbation
growing areas in the south-west, with major • South Gloucestershire has the largest
housing and employment developments surface area of the West of England Unitary
planned Authorities which is significantly rural
• South Gloucestershire is not a deprived • However two thirds of South
area, but there are some pockets of Gloucestershire’s population live in the
persistent relative deprivation Bristol conurbation
• Inequalities are mainly in health & well- • Local administration is based in Yate - one of
being, educational attainment, and the county towns
employability • With the significant overlap with the
• The urban areas with proximity to Bristol are conurbation of Bristol, many of Quartet
relatively more deprived than the rural Community Foundation’s donors based in
areas and country towns, and five out of the South Gloucestershire give at the West of
England or greater Bristol level
Thornbury
Yate/Chipping
Sodbury
Bradley Stoke
July 2014
Emerson’s Green
Filton
Kingswood
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Population: Demographics
South Gloucestershire is the second largest of the population by 2035, and over 85s will make up
West of England Unitary Authorities (former an increasing proportion of this figure. This is a
Avon Area) with a quarter of the overall smaller rise in the proportion of over 65s than
population – the Census counted 262,767 either North Somerset or B&NES, due to the
people in 2011. It makes up roughly one third of consistent levels of residents of working age
the population of the Greater Bristol (20-64). On average the proportion of children
conurbation. South Gloucestershire is the largest and young people is also projected to remain at
geographic area of the four unitary authorities a consistent level of about 23%. There are
but population density varies widely between the however wide variations in the locations of older
rural and built up parts of the district. Density is and younger people – older people are
as low as 1 person per hectare in Westerleigh increasingly concentrated in the rural and older
and Boyd Valley Wards and as high as over 50 urban areas, and children in the newer housing
people per hectare in older urban areas such as developments.
Kingswood and Yate. New urban areas such as
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Bradley Stoke and Emerson’s Green have been
built to lower densities.
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Gloucestershire are very difficult to establish North&Somerset&
19%&
because of the plans for new housing
developments north and east of Bristol. Large
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and Patchway and around Emerson’s Green, 25%&
itself a recent urban extension. The combination Bristol&
40%&
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housing strategy and the recent recession mean
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housing developments will take place. The
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Population Characteristics
South Gloucestershire is a more ethnically Type to enter text
diverse area than its more rural neighbours -
North Somerset and B&NES. The majority of
people from Black & Minority Ethnic (BME)
backgrounds live in the urban parts of the
district. Overall the BME proportion of the
population has grown to nearly 6% in the last
ten years, and is as much as 8% (comparable
with Bristol) in Bradley Stoke – some 21,600
people. The most common countries of origin are
India and Poland according to GP registration
records. 1 in 11 children are from a BME or
mixed heritage background.
South Gloucestershire’s Priority Neighbourhoods
South Gloucestershire has the highest population
of gypsies and travellers, and the highest
numbers of traveller pitches in the West of
England. South Gloucestershire Council hosts the
Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement
Service on behalf of neighbouring authorities,
and reaching out to these communities is a
priority in South Gloucestershire.
The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is based
on the rank of each area against each other and
is therefore relative. It is however possible to see
how areas improve or decline relatively over
time (2004-2007-2010). Like B&NES, South
Gloucestershire is not a deprived area: only 10%
local authorities are less deprived. However a
IMD 2010: As it affects older people
higher proportion of families live by “moderate
means” than nationally, and they are more likely
to have been affected by the recent economic
downturn.
Income deprivation is a key component of
poverty and deprivation as defined in local and
national policy, and is widespread in South
Gloucestershire both for children and for older
people. Both groups follow the same geographic
patterns, and they are broadly similar
throughout the time period of the IMD
(2004-2010). It is worth noting that 1 in 9
children in South Gloucestershire live in poverty,
and two thirds of them live in areas outside the
designated Priority Neighbourhoods.
IMD 2010: As it affects children
3Economic Development & Public Policy
South Gloucestershire Council and its public Indicators of particular concern in the Priority
sector partners have traditionally been poorly Neighbourhoods:
funded and low spending even in relation to
• Higher rates of unemployment as signified
similar areas, and this presents a challenge to
by take up of Job Seekers Allowance –
aspirations for community and economic
over twice the local average, and highest
development. In some ways the area was better
in Patchway and Kingswood
prepared for the current era of cuts than many
as there were few government programmes to • Low wage levels and in-work poverty –
start with. The local authority had a long period Kingswood has a very high proportion of
of no overall control by one political party and a people paid less than the living wage
spirit of cooperation grew and continued after
• Low educational attainment as measured
the Conservatives gained control in 2007
by achievement of “good” GCSE results is
particularly within the South Gloucestershire
highlighted in the Child Health Profile and
Partnership.
is lowest in the east Bristol Priority
A particular emphasis in strategic policy in South Neighbourhoods – Cadbury Heath,
Gloucestershire is economic development and Kingswood, and Staple Hill, but improving
inward investment. The area north of Bristol has significantly in Patchway
attracted significant investment from large
• Higher rates of premature deaths – tending
companies and agencies such as the MOD
to be due to circulatory diseases and
Defense Procurement Executive and Hewlett
cancer.
Packard benefiting from the existing presence of
aerospace and engineering companies such as • Obesity - in adults and older children, and
Rolls Royce and BAe Systems. The north and east issues around promoting active and healthy
Bristol fringe area has become a distinct area of lifestyles
commercial, retail and industrial development.
Anecdotally, community needs emerging are:
Notwithstanding this new development, there
anxiety and mental distress especially in children
remain significant community issues resulting from
and young people; raising of young people’s
the changes in employment patterns
aspirations, and skill levels in people over 45
South Gloucestershire Council and Partnership particularly those made unemployed by the
recognise that a few areas are significantly more recession.
deprived than average and define 6 areas as
The Care Forum’s report on community capacity
Priority Neighbourhoods for policy purposes.
for the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
These areas were defined as areas where
(2012) also notes a number of service gaps or
“higher numbers of people do not achieve their
issues that prevent access to services: availability
full potential, have poorer health outcomes, are
of public and community transport; cuts to advice
employed in less well-paid jobs or are
services at a time of increasing need; reducing
unemployed, and there are higher levels of
mental health services; cuts to statutory provision
crime”. Although mostly small areas dispersed
of children’s and youth services; capacity
around the area, roughly 44,000 people live in
building support needed for BME community
these Priority Neighbourhoods, and the majority
groups (especially in the Chinese community);
of them are located in the older urban areas
loneliness and isolation amongst elderly people.
bordering Bristol (with the exception of Yate/
Dodington – an “expanded town” principally
developed in the 1960s.)
4Voluntary Sector in South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire has a diverse and well- Gloucestershire Annual Surveys highlight the
established voluntary, community and social most common services provided:
enterprise sector. The National Survey of • Social & Leisure activities
Charities & Social Enterprises 2010 counted 624 • Health social care services
such organisations, a decline of 96 since the
• Youth services
previous survey in 2008. This number is fewer
• Information, signposting & advice
per head of population than any of its West of
England neighbours and perhaps reflects the South Gloucestershire Council provides a number
extent to which Bristol and South Gloucestershire of funding opportunities for local voluntary
organisations itself:
share the conurbation of greater Bristol. Many
organisations which serve South Gloucestershire • Health Inequalities Small Grants
communities are based more centrally in Bristol. • Community Grants - capital & revenue
CVS South Gloucestershire conducts regular • Community Environment Grants
surveys of its members and the latest shows that • And a programme of three-year Service
36% of groups have an annual income of less Level Agreements
than £5,000; 37% have incomes between Awards'for'All'in'South'Gloucestershire'2009713:'By'
£5,000 and £50,000. 78% use volunteers in community'of'interest/issue'addressed'
Poverty*&*
delivering their services/activities, and 60% have EqualiCes*
disadvantage*
7%*
no employees and are therefore entirely reliant 1%*
Health*&*disability*
on volunteers. Over 60% of organisations do not 8%*
get public sector funding. Membership fees and
donations make up the majority of income for
the majority of organisations (54%)
Children,*young*
Coordinated mechanisms to support the local people*&*families*
50%*
voluntary and community sector have developed Local*community*
31%*
over the last ten years. With no real centre to
South Gloucestershire, there is now a well-
established network of local infrastructure
organisations across the area supporting
Older*people*
volunteering, community development and 3%*
capacity building, and there are well-established
consultation and involvement mechanisms QCF$grant$making$in$South$Gloucestershire$
through multi-agency partnerships and voluntary 2009914:$Communi=es$of$interest/issues$
addressed$
sector networks hosted by CVS South Poverty*&*
Gloucestershire and The Care Forum. South EqualiQuartet Community Foundation in South
Gloucestershire
Given the proximity and contiguous urban areas programme, the first such agreement made in the
of Greater Bristol, Quartet Community area.
Foundation has worked in South Gloucestershire
Unlike North Somerset and B&NES, there is no
since the Foundation was started. It has made
dedicated Quartet Community Foundation
grants in areas such as Kingswood and Staple
Committee for South Gloucestershire nor any
Hill which show high levels of deprivation. The
specific resource allocated to its development.
history of Quartet Community Foundation grant
making in Bradley Stoke shows the relationship Quartet'Community'Founda0on'grant'making'in''
between funding and community development. 400000"
South'Gloucestershire'2005Quartet Community Foundation in
South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire overall is not a deprived issues that merit consideration in South
area and is growing rapidly in terms of housing Gloucestershire:
development, migration and inward investment.
• Focussing on educational attainment at Key
However, as in all areas, there are parts of the
Stage 4 (GCSE) and further education -
community are disadvantaged or excluded for
particularly in the area east of Bristol which
reasons of age, ethnicity or relative deprivation.
appears to be falling behind
South Gloucestershire has rarely had access to
Government or independent regeneration • Skills development to enable communities in
programmes but has communities of need and the older urban areas to access
areas that face significant barriers to accessing employment opportunities in the new
the opportunities available to the majority. There developments
are some areas - particularly those in the older
industrial parts of the district - that are • Tracking the impact of changes to services
persistently more deprived than the average. for children and young people particularly
in hard pressed areas that are not in the 6
As the only area that features in the Index of Priority Neighbourhoods. Youth services
Multiple Deprivation’s (IMD) 20% most deprived and Children’s Centres have been affected
category, Staple Hill is the area currently
targeted by external regeneration programmes: • Tackling obesity and promoting healthy
and active lifestyles
• Community First Matched Fund: A four year
community-led programme until 2015. • Voluntary sector development for equalities
Priorities are health (older people, drug & communities, most notably BME and
alcohol issues, and domestic violence); disability groups, and building on Reaching
local economy; and environment Out: Linking In (a Big Lottery-funded
programme that focused on enabling
• Our Place: Led by Locality, this new (March equalities groups to access mainstream
2014) Government programme supports support and development opportunities,
local communities to shape responses to 2009-11)
local needs at a neighbourhood level. CVS
South Gloucestershire led the bid which • Community development in the planned
centres on finding new ways to tackle new communities, and addressing their
unemployment in the area. integration into wider areas - particularly in
the North Bristol/Filton/Patchway area
Quartet Community Foundation aims to use the
funds it has at its discretion in a proactive way. It
is looking to focus resources to those communities
and groups most in need and at disadvantage
and where the funds available can make the
most difference. It is difficult to disengage issues
specific to South Gloucestershire that do not also
apply to Bristol in that most communities living in
the greater Bristol urban area consider
themselves to be living in Bristol, and community
needs do not stop conveniently at administrative
boundaries. However there are some specific Quartet Community Foundation
July 2014
7References
2011 Census Profile - West of England (Bristol Patchway Priority Neighbourhood Proxy
City Council, 2013) (accessed from http:// Indicator Profile (South Gloucestershire
www.westofenglandlep.co.uk , June 2014) Council, December 2013)
www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Council Strategy (South Gloucestershire
(accessed June 2014) − Thematic maps Council, May 2012)
showing Indices of Deprivation 2010 for
Mapping of Social Housing: Summary
Super Output Areas
findings (presentation to South
http://www.awardsforallgrants.org.uk/ Gloucestershire Housing Group, March
(accessed June 2014) 2014)
UK Community Foundations, DIGITS2 Child Health Profile – South Gloucestershire
www.salesforce.com (accessed June –July (Child & Maternal Health Observatory,
2014) 2012)
The Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood: Census 2011: Population and household
draft SPD – public consultation/ exhibition estimates analysis at ward level (South
document (South Gloucestershire Council, Gloucestershire Council, January 2013)
2014)
South Gloucestershire Joint Strategic Needs
National Survey of Charities & Social Assessment (JSNA) (South Gloucestershire
Enterprises, 2010: Local Authority Headline Health & Wellbeing Board, March 2013)
Report – South Gloucestershire (MORI,
Indices of Deprivation 2010 – South
2011)
Gloucestershire Summary (South West
Learning Disabilities Profile for South Observatory, June 2011)
Gloucestershire (Public Health England,
Health Profile 2012: South Gloucestershire
2012)
(Department of Health, 2012)
Reaching Out: Linking In (RO: LI): State of
South West Observatory Local Profiles –
Sector Report, Executive summary (West of
South Gloucestershire (South West
England Consortium, June 2011)
Observatory, January 2012)
Yate Priority Neighbourhood Proxy Indicator
Report on Community Capacity in South
Profile (South Gloucestershire Council,
Gloucestershire (The Care Forum, July 2012)
December 2013)
Staple Hill Priority Neighbourhood Proxy
Indicator Profile (South Gloucestershire
Council, December 2013)
Kingswood Priority Neighbourhood Proxy
Indicator Profile (South Gloucestershire
Council, December 2013)
Cadbury Heath Priority Neighbourhood
Proxy Indicator Profile (South Gloucestershire
Council, December 2013)
Filton Priority Neighbourhood Proxy
Indicator Profile (South Gloucestershire
Council, December 2013)
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