Strong Communities: Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector

Past projects have included:
 

• Involvement in Shared Energy, a project funded by the Barings Foundation and delivered in partnership with bassac, Groundwork UK, New Economics Foundation and the Community Sector Coalition. The project engaged with local community anchor organisations to look at how such organisations can best address climate change.
• Publication of Green up! Five ways to work with your council on the environment and sustainability, a guide for community and voluntary groups.

Currently we are:

• Managing the delivery of a new website for the Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector (ARVAC), which will provide a communication hub for those undertaking research into the VCS (delivery by ARVAC).
• Managing the delivery of video diaries, stories and interviews on the subject of trusteeship to be used as peer learning tools (delivery by ARVAC).
• Developing the evidence base on support needs for community action on sustainable development. We have undertaken a review of research on the support needs for community action on sustainable development, and a workshop to identify research gaps and implications for policy will be held in June 2010.
• Carrying forward development of the Third Sector Declaration on Climate Change, and developing the JustAct website.

• Community cohesion
• Community engagement
• Strong communities

• Grassroots Grants
• Grassroots Grants endowment match challenge
• The Community Development Challenge (summary)
• The Community Development Challenge

• Evaluation report
• Management report
• Strategies report
• Democracy report