Strong communities: supporting the development of a skilled community development workforce

Past projects have included:

• A review of the Community Development Challenge report, setting out the progress made since the publication of the report and highlighting the areas where work is still required.
• Survey of CD Workers and Managers 2009

Currently, we are:

• Working with other national CD organisations to develop and promote a qualification and credit framework for CD, by:
• Funding a summary and guide to using the National Occupational Standards for CD (delivery by the Federation of Community Development Learning (FCDL));
• Funding the development of a new qualification framework for CD (delivery by Val Harris).
• Engaging with the Homes and Communities Agency on empowerment skills, and the relationship between empowerment and CD.
• Undertaking a high-level independent inquiry into the CD workforce (summer 2010).

• 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