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Community Self-Help

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Self-help and mutual aid are often seen as minor activities which take place at the margins of society. Community Self-Help shows that...

Making Community Participation Meaningful: a Handbook for Development and Assessment

Published by: The Policy Press

Community participation is now demanded of virtually all public sector services and programmes. This handbook provides practitioners, community activists, regeneration managers, teachers and academics with the tools needed to ensure that community participation is effective.

Mind the Gap

Published by: SOLAR

Learning and insights from a short “action inquiry” into youth health needs in Hounslow conducted between October 2002 and March 2003.

Empowering Communities: The Impact of Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) on Social Capital

Published by: Scottish Homes

This article reports on recent research on community empowerment and social capital development by Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) in Scotland.

People in Communities Initiative: An Evaluation Report

Published by: Welsh Assembly Government

Can Local Democracy Survive Governance?

Published by: Sage Journals

This paper will review the way in which initiatives to extend local democracy within a UK local government context have worked out in...

Auditing Community Participation

Published by: The Policy Press

However, there is still a lot of variation in the practice of partnerships around the country and across the different departments of...

Can Large Scale Stock Transfer Deliver Community Ownership?

Published by: University of Stirling

Auditing the Capacity of Institutions and Communities to Deliver Democratic Participation

Published by: Institute for Volunteering Research

This article outlines a framework for auditing community participation in public decision-making.

Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook

Published by: The Policy Press

Auditing community participation looks at ways of assessing levels of community involvement in area regeneration initiatives.