National Empowerment Partnership

The National Empowerment Partnership (NEP) is a programme committed to supporting and improving empowerment activities across England. It gathers evidence of effective community empowerment activities and promotes the powerful benefits of involving communities in decisions that affect them.

Its focus is to provide a regional structure for empowerment activities and to steer and lead the empowerment agenda. In particular, it supports local authorities and community organisations to increase the number of people who feel they can influence decisions in their locality.

For more information about the NEP see here.

The practical work of the NEP programme is carried out by organisations working together in Regional Empowerment Partnerships (REPs). There is a REP in each of the nine English regions. Each REP brings together a range of statutory agencies, voluntary and community organisations, networks and people who are running community empowerment activities. Empowering Communities is the REP in the South West.