What changes can offer

Commissioned courses – introducing community development, explaining community development, planning & evaluating community development. These courses, which mix theoretical grounding and practical application, can be tailored for the audience: for practitioners or managers – or both. Also, “Community Development for non-CD manager”s: recognising the broad contexts for managers, where work areas such as regeneration, housing, partnership working, economic development and planning have a policy and practical remit around communities and community development.

Lecturing & (post) graduate guest speaking on community development courses and modules

Evaluation of community development projects or programmes

Consultancy to support you to take a community development approach to your work

Research to look at how community development manifests within your organisation and the difference that it makes

Development of guides to help your organisation to take a community development approach to what you do – and also of self-reflective toolkits for practitioners