Empowering Communities: Important Engagement and Empowerment Research Published

The reports, while not comprehensive, provide an overview of the state of, and work to improve, empowerment and engagement across the South West.  See the links to each report below.  Empowering Communities will be publishing further findings documents from these research documents in the next couple of months.

Report 1 - An Overview of the Learning from the South West Empowerment Development Project

Report 2 - Engagement and Empowerment among Black and Minority Ethnic and other Equality Communities in the South West of England: A Case Study

Report 3 - Participation and Empowerment of Children and Young People in the South West of England: A Case Study

Report 4 - Engagement and Empowerment among Older People in the South West of England: A Case Study

Report 5 - Engagement and Empowerment in Rural Local Authorities in the South West of England: A Case Study

Report 6 - Engagement and Empowerment in an Urban Unitary Authority in the South West of England: A Case Study

Report 7 - No Boundaries: A Study of Networks and Empowerment (may take some time to download 1.6MB)

Report 8 - Engagement and Empowerment: Measurement and Indicators

All the reports were researched and written by a joint team from The Evaluation Trust and South West Foundation, with support from Professor Marilyn Taylor, Professor of Urban Governance and Regeneration at the University of the West of England. The team members were:

Philippa Chapman
Maria Clarke
Jan Crawley
Andrew Edgington
Lesley Frazer
Erica Lewis
Lori Streich
Sarah del Tugo
Jenni Wilson

The Empowering Communities Consortium would like to thank the researchers for all their work, and thank all those who gave time to be interviewed for this valuable work.