What we do...

We provide a range of services including action research, tailor made participatory training programmes, consultancy and evaluation.

We have extensive experience of:

• Community empowerment and participation processes
• Public speaking and facilitation of training courses, workshops and conferences
• Developing and facilitating creative approaches and techniques to enable maximum participation and individual and group development. 
• Action research and evaluation
• Networking and partnerships
• Voluntary and community sector organisational development
• Capacity building with a range of stakeholders
• Strategic planning and assessment processes and frameworks
• Writing and production of reports, training manuals / materials, handbooks and other publications.
• Developing community development learning resources and opportunities

And how we do it…

The following principles underpin our work:

• Involving people in processes which are developmental in their own right.
• The appropriate use of imaginative and creative approaches to enable participation
• Community engagement in the policies and programmes which shape people’s lives.
• The need for community development agencies and practitioners to network, understand, reflect upon and learn from context and practice.
• The development and understanding of community development as a local activity, as a strategic intervention and as a policy framework.
• The importance of continual reflection and evaluation of progress.