SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

Y21: Culture-led regeneration in twenty-first century UK city regions. While in the UNCHS report The State of the Worlds Cities suggested that regeneration was a global phenomena by the twenty-first century one frequently adopted as an explicit urban policy by many of the worlds major cities not all major cities now have the budget or desire to engage in this work . As a result the creative writing community history workshops aimed to concentrate on creating the social bonds of solidarity and collective identity as a result of bringing neighbourhood residents together providing a shared goal and setting a common mood for the purpose of creating the mural. Like many cultural-led regeneration projects Y created more long-term benefits and developments than originally anticipated in the research brief. As a result of the enthusiasm and appetite for community writing workshops demonstrated by end-users during the project New Wortley Community centre worked with academics to apply for Arts Council England and local council funding to begin regular scheduled community writing classes at the new centre building.