Projects
In this section we have listed all projects carried out through the Every Voice Counts programme.
Recent projects include:
- Spreading Active Citizenship
- Asset Transfer
- Promoting Community Led Planning
- Co-Production
- Dissemination & Legacy
- Overcoming Barriers to Participation & Empowerment
- Sharing Effective Practice
2009-10
BME & Empowerment – Women Acting in Today’s Society (WAITS)
Interview with Marcia Lewinson – 17th May 2010
Community Based Research – All Saints Action Network (ASAN)
Interview with Iftikar Karim – 18th March 2010
Live notes from EVC Event – 17th May 2010
Disability & Empowerment – Council of Disabled People (CDP)
Interview with Joanna Matthews
Engaged Citizens – New Economics Foundation (NEF) & Speaker’s Corner Trust (SCT)
Rurality & Empowerment – WMRCAN & Community First
Young People & Empowerment – Youth Action Network (YAN)
Live notes from EVC Event – 17th May 2010
2008-09
A Speakers’ Corner Project
Speakers’ Corner Project Report
Communities in Control
Community-led Planning
Community empowerment and the Local Area Agreement process
EVC Empowerment Network
Guide Neighbourhoods
Structured Dialogue
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.’
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.
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’