An evaluation of Local Links: Reviewing a pilot programme to develop active networks in local communities (28th January 2008)
This report evaluates a pilot programme that is exploring the potential to develop active networks in local communities. It informs the current debate on neighbourhood governance and builds on JRF research that explores issues of community empowerment, local governance and user participation in local service delivery. The report evaluates: Programme coordination and management: clarity about what the programme sought to achieve; whether the correct people participated; management and coordination; contextual factors affecting delivery; Approach to delivery: sustaining the interest of participants; whether content was fit for purpose; whether the environment was conducive to the delivery of project objectives; Impact on participants in terms of: confidence; understanding the local area; networking; skills; motivation; benefit to participants' own projects; activism and employment; and Impact on the area: new initiatives and opportunities.
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Developing active networks in local communities: A review of Local Links, a pilot programme in West Yorkshire (28th January 2008)
The pilot ‘Local Links’ programmes, run by Common Purpose in four areas of West Yorkshire, were designed to support active networking, skills development and information sharing for locally based decision makers and active citizens. This report explores whether the scheme was effective, and what benefits this approach has for communities. It examines: the benefit of informal networking in communities – meeting other people active and involved in the area, knowing what they do, taking and working together and forging stronger links; ways of valuing diversity (in all its aspects) within communities, and enabling participants to see the world through other people’s eyes; ways of overcoming some of the barriers to participation faced by local people; and Local Links as a model of good practice for work with and by communities.
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This report evaluates a pilot programme that is exploring the potential to develop active networks in local communities. It informs the current debate on neighbourhood governance and builds on JRF research that explores issues of community empowerment, local governance and user participation in local service delivery. The report evaluates: Programme coordination and management: clarity about what the programme sought to achieve; whether the correct people participated; management and coordination; contextual factors affecting delivery; Approach to delivery: sustaining the interest of participants; whether content was fit for purpose; whether the environment was conducive to the delivery of project objectives; Impact on participants in terms of: confidence; understanding the local area; networking; skills; motivation; benefit to participants' own projects; activism and employment; and Impact on the area: new initiatives and opportunities.
Click here for the Report
Developing active networks in local communities: A review of Local Links, a pilot programme in West Yorkshire (28th January 2008)
The pilot ‘Local Links’ programmes, run by Common Purpose in four areas of West Yorkshire, were designed to support active networking, skills development and information sharing for locally based decision makers and active citizens. This report explores whether the scheme was effective, and what benefits this approach has for communities. It examines: the benefit of informal networking in communities – meeting other people active and involved in the area, knowing what they do, taking and working together and forging stronger links; ways of valuing diversity (in all its aspects) within communities, and enabling participants to see the world through other people’s eyes; ways of overcoming some of the barriers to participation faced by local people; and Local Links as a model of good practice for work with and by communities.
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