Publications
Publications - guides, handbooks and reports produced by COGS as sole authors or in collaboration with others include:
Communities R Us: new and established communities working together - Evaluation Report
Mandy Wilson and Tricia Zipfel
Housing Associations Charitable Trust (hact) 2008
COGS, University of Birmingham, University of the West of England
CLG 2007
"Changing Neighbourhoods, lessons from the JRF Neighbourhood Programme"
Marilyn Taylor, Mandy Wilson, Derrick Purdue, Pete Wilde
Policy Press 2007
For summary report, JRF Findings: "Changing neighbourhoods, The impact of 'light touch' support in 20 communities" and further links click here
"The importance of the neighbourhood: Tackling the implementation gap"
Marilyn Taylor and Mandy Wilson
JRF 2006
Mandy Wilson and Jackie Heeney
Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber 2006
(Downloadable document, PDF format, 516Kb)
"Lending a hand: the value of ‘light touch’ support in empowering communities"
Mandy Wilson, Pete Wilde, Derrick Purdue and Marilyn Taylor
JRF Findings, JRF Neighbourhood Programme Evaluation Team
2005
"Evaluating Community Projects – A practical guide"
Marilyn Taylor, Derrick Purdue, Mandy Wilson and Pete Wilde
JRF 2005
"Making Connections: An evaluation of the Community Participation Programmes”
COGS, University of the West of England, Liverpool John Moores University
ODPM 2005
A Summary Report is also available.
“Making Community Participation Meaningful”
Danny Burns, Frances Heywood, Marilyn Taylor, Pete Wilde and Mandy Wilson
Policy Press 2004
"What Works in Assessing Community Participation?"
Danny Burns, Frances Heywood, Pete Wilde and Mandy Wilson
Policy Press 2004
COGS
COGS and South Yorkshire Coalfield Partnership 2003
"Benchmarking community participation: Developing and implementing the Active Partners benchmarks"
Mandy Wilson and Pete Wilde
JRF 2003
"Assessing Community Strengths: A Practical Handbook for Planning Capacity Building Initiatives"
Steve Skinner and Mandy Wilson
CDF 2002
Also see JRF Findings "A new approach to assessing community strengths"
“Community Involvement in Museums, Archives and Libraries : a Toolkit for Improving Practice”
Mandy Wilson and Pete Wilde
COGS on behalf of Yorkshire Museums Council 2002
"Building Practitioner Strengths: Reflecting on Community Development Practice"
Mandy Wilson and Pete Wilde
CDF 2001
"Active Partners: Benchmarking Community Participation in Regeneration"
COGS
Yorkshire Forward 2000
(Downloadable document, PDF format, 265Kb)
We have also produced training manuals and toolkits for NRU, Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation and IMC / Government of Romania.