I offer a range of services including facilitation, action research, tailor made training programmes, consultancy and evaluation. I bring many years of knowledge, skills and experience as well as up to date thinking on the current policy context.

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I have extensive experience of:

• Community empowerment and participation processes.

• Facilitation of training courses, workshops and conferences.

• Development and design of 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.

                                                                                                                                                          

The following principles underpin my work:

I believe that local residents should drive community development in their own communities. This means:

• Supporting community confidence, building on local skills and experiences and supporting the development of local leadership. 

• 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.

• Acknowledgement of difference and respect for diversity

• Commitment to understand power and equality / inequality of opportunity