Community practice and programme development

• Advice, facilitation and support for community led development  

• Design and delivery support for community engagement, participation and development programmes and projects

• Community group and neighbourhood development

• Network design and networking facilitation

• Community cohesion – dealing with conflict, mediation and building understanding

• Bridging and linking policy and practice

• Developing and facilitating creative approaches and techniques to enable maximum participation

 

‘Conscious’ and reflective community work practice is a key theme in my work. In 2002 I co-authored the publication ‘Building Practitioner Strengths’ (CDF) which provides a framework for use in planning and reflecting un practice as well as approaches to supervision, peer mentoring and team/collective learning and development.

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Examples of work include:

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• National multimedia evaluation of Big Local programme, 2015 - ongoing

• Learning partner to various Community Organisers programmes 2011-2017 (Locality and COLtd)

• Training support for People's Health Trust Local People Projects, 2018 - ongoing (RVS)

• Big Local rep for Local Trust, 2011-2014

• Relationship manager and Advisor to Our Place (Locality), First Steps (CDF) and Community Economic Development (Co-ops UK) Programmes 2014-2017

• Facilitation for community group meetings and events

• Participatory design and collective action planning

 

I can also offer development and reflection workshops, and mentoring and non-managerial supervision, for community workers and development practitioners e.g. for local authority departments and teams, voluntary sector organisations, and for individual workers.