Projects

In this section we have listed all projects carried out through the Every Voice Counts programme.

Recent projects include:

2009-10

BME & Empowerment – Women Acting in Today’s Society (WAITS)

Interview with Marcia Lewinson – 17th May 2010

WAITS Presentation

Community Based Research – All Saints Action Network (ASAN)

Interview with Iftikar Karim – 18th March 2010

Live notes from EVC Event – 17th May 2010

ASAN Presentation

Disability & Empowerment – Council of Disabled People (CDP)

Interview with Joanna Matthews

CDP Presentation

Engaged Citizens – New Economics Foundation (NEF) & Speaker’s Corner Trust (SCT)

Interview with Perry Walker

NEF-SCT Presentation

Rurality & Empowerment – WMRCAN & Community First

Interview with Lorna Pearcy

WMRCAN Presentation

Young People & Empowerment – Youth Action Network (YAN)

Live notes from EVC Event – 17th May 2010

YAN Presentation

2008-09

A Speakers’ Corner Project

Speakers’ Corner Project Report

Communities in Control

Communities in Control Report

Community-led Planning

Community Led Planning Report

Community empowerment and the Local Area Agreement process

A report

EVC Empowerment Network

Guide Neighbourhoods

Structured Dialogue

Structured Dialogue Report

2007-2008

Parish Plans

Working Together to Achieve

‘This research was commissioned by West Midlands Rural Community Council Network as a response to the government’s drive to improve the quality, and levels, of community empowerment and engagement across the country.’

EMPOWERMENT_PP_FINAL 2008

BME communities and the empowerment agenda

This report was published around research on the development of a black and monority ethnic voluntary and community secotr practitioner network.

The introduction explains:

‘…….. West Midlands Race Equality Advisory Board (WM REAB) has recognised the lack of co-ordinated Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) participation at local authority and regional levels, which impacts on the communities’ ability to engage with regional policy and agencies.  This research project, commissioned by Regional Action West Midlands, gathers and discusses evidence to support the development of a regional BME practitioners’ network.

EMPOWERMENT_BME_FINAL 2008

Community empowerment and the Local Area Agreement process

At the time of publishing, this report mapped the extent and  position of community involvement and empowerment in the developing Local Area Agreement process.

‘This report is the culmination of two studies undertaken into community involvement and empowerment in the developing Local Area Agreement (LLA) process’

EMPOWERMENT_LAA_FINAL 2008

Women Organising in Wolverhampton Network

EMPOWERMENT_WOW_FINAL 2008