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Empowering Communities Case Studies

These case studies are a small selection of the material available from our research. For more background, examples and information, go to our Empowering Communities Reports. And you can read more case studies from Creating Excellence here.

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Empowering Communities

Community Researchers in Weston-super-Mare

This course developed for a recently formed Parents' Group has been evaluated to show evidence of very real change in the confidence and skills of the participants, and an ongoing group ready to act as advocates for the ...   Read more... on "Community Researchers in Weston-super-Mare"
Published: Mon, 08 June 2009
Topic:
Empowerment

Dorset POPP – fulfilling the needs, desires and aspirations of older people

Dorset's Partnership with Older People Project, or POPP, is a complex programme driven by and aiming to fulfil the needs, desires, and aspirations of the older people in the county ...   Read more... on "Dorset POPP – fulfilling the needs, desires and aspirations of older people"
Published: Tue, 31 March 2009
Topic:
People, communities and living

Working together for empowerment in a rural town

For more than a decade, the Lyme Regis Development Trust has been galvanising local people to get involved in campaigning for community projects and improvements. It has scored many notable successes - and has also demonstrated ...   Read more... on "Working together for empowerment in a rural town"
Published: Tue, 31 March 2009
Topic:
Rural communities

Participatory Proofing – Getting policy makers to understand the needs of single parents

Single parents in Bristol have helped mould and deliver a ground-breaking national project to identify the barriers hindering their efforts to get and keep good-quality jobs ...   Read more... on "Participatory Proofing – Getting policy makers to understand the needs of single parents"
Published: Mon, 30 March 2009
Topic:
Empowerment

Learning to Involve - Empowering service users and carers to work with public sector bodies

A case study of user involvement in Health and Social Care services in Devon. This innovative project gives service users and carers the skills and confidence to speak up and the opportunity to speak out at forums and at ...   Read more... on "Learning to Involve - Empowering service users and carers to work with public sector bodies"
Published: Mon, 22 December 2008
Topic:
Carers and health professionals

Neighbourhood clean up 'quick wins', Bournemouth

'Quick wins' were an early priority for what was last year voted the country's most successful neighbourhood management scheme. By tackling eyesores like litter, fly tipping and over-run gardens ...   Read more... on "Neighbourhood clean up 'quick wins', Bournemouth"
Published: Sat, 02 October 2004
Topic:
Empowerment

In safe hands: neighbourhood management governance, Bournemouth

The approach to governance adopted by Springbourne and Boscombe West neighbourhood management pathfinder has allowed it to tap into a deep-rooted sense of community pride, remarkable in an area with a highly transient population ...   Read more... on "In safe hands: neighbourhood management governance, Bournemouth"
Published: Sat, 02 October 2004
Topic:
Empowerment

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