Services
Community development
- Developing and delivering training programmes on ‘introduction to community development’, ‘explaining community development’ and ‘planning and evaluating community development’
- Delivering a post-graduate module on Community Development & Health
- Developing introductory guides to community development in practice
- Reflecting on, monitoring and evaluating community development practice using the Achieving Better Community Development (ABCD) approach
- Developing a tool for community networks to explore their levels of – and capacity for – influence
- Mapping different approaches to community development
- Producing a self reflection toolkit for community development workers
For: Age Concern England, CPPIH (LINKS), Shoreline Housing Partnership, Dosti - Dudley Community Empowerment Network, Nottingham University, Canterbury City Council and as associates of the Community Development Foundation
Community empowerment
- Researching the community empowerment dimensions of the ‘Doing Community Development planning & evaluation framework’ in practice to develop an ‘easy to use guide’
- Work on the public sector side of community empowerment, through research to develop a framework which identifies public sector agencies’ openness to community influence
- Evaluating aspects of community empowerment
For: Community Development Exchange/National Empowerment Partnership, Coventry Community Empowerment Network
Community engagement
- Supporting local authorities to develop their Community Engagement Strategies
- Evaluating community engagement
- Evaluating the level of influence that communities have in relation to Partnerships
- Facilitating sessions to explore the meaning and practice of community engagement for different Partner agencies
- Developing and delivering training programmes for participants to share their experiences of community engagement, to learn about the context of community engagement and to explore some of the issues, challenges and solutions for engaging communities.
- Developing guidance notes for community engagement
For: The Wildlife Trust, Dudley MBC, Dosti - Dudley Community Empowerment Network, Canterbury City Council and as associates of The Community Development Foundation
Citizenship
- Developing and delivering an accredited learning programme ‘IMPACT! Women Active in Community and Public Life’ as part of the two year Home Office ALAC (Active Learning for Active Citizenship) action research project
- Writing and contributing to the development of the ALAC National Learning Framework for citizenship learning with the DCLG (Department for Communities and Local Government)
- Core member of Take Part National Network (formerly Active Learning for Active Citizenship)
- Research to produce guidance on models, approaches and resources which can be used to encourage, equip and support women who are currently under represented, to become more active, both formally and informally, in governance structures and other aspects of both community and public life.
- Facilitating sessions in the Black Country to explore how different agencies can take forward their work on Active Citizenship
- Facilitating a workshop on ‘participation’ as part of International Women’s Day celebrations 2006
For: Take Part, Government Equalities Office, Communities and Local Government, Dudley Women’s Forum, Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council
Dealing with aggression
- Developing and delivering a one day course to housing association staff as part of their in-house training programme
For: Hostels Liaison Group, Nottingham over the past 9 years
Dealing with conflict
- Brokering relationships
- Developing and delivering training and facilitation
- Team building and group development
For: Mental Health Trust and an Alcohol Project
Evaluation
- User-centred research evaluation
- Working with groups to develop community-based research & evaluation skills
- Writing training toolkit for community research
- Developing an evaluation framework to monitor engagement with communities
- Supporting the development of an evaluation framework for community networks to recognise their levels of influence and impact on local partnerships
- External evaluation of, for example: a County-wide health project and national community engagement projects, Community Empowerment Network
For: advice centres, Primary Care Trusts, ARVAC, Dudley MBC, Dosti – Dudley Community Empowerment Network, Coventry Community Empowerment Network, Brierley Hill Community Forum, West Mercia Police and as associates of the Community Development Foundation
Organisational development
- Team building
- Strategic planning: organisational planning, decision-making structures
- One-off emergency ‘doctor’!
- Managing change
For: Councils for Voluntary Service; local authorities
Partnership Working
- Facilitating discussions around the development of a resource for better partnership working
For: Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council
Personal development
- Non-managerial supervision
- Training Needs Assessments
- Mentoring
- Training in coaching skills
- Assertiveness training
For: local authority managers, senior staff in the voluntary sector, community work practitioners and community members
Social business development
- Undertaking feasibility studies around income generation in the community sector
For: Bradford Equity Partnership, Jumpstart
Working with groups
- Facilitating group development
- Introduction to group work
- Training in group work skills
- Facilitating informal learning
- Training the Trainers
- Facilitating group development
For: Active Learning for Active Citizenship programme, Victim Support Coordinators, Women Working in Communities course, Shoreline Housing Partnership, community groups
