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A curated and searchable collection of community-related research reports, case studies and publications from the Institute for Community Studies and other organisations.
Relationship Makers Impact Review: Supporting a cohort of Community Businesses
Published: 2020
In 2020, members of our Empowering Places programme joined The Relationships Project for their first Relationship Makers training programme. Over 8 weeks, participants mapped their relationships, diagnosing areas to prioritise and developed action plans to take forward. This report captures the programme and process of the training programme.
Rapid research COVID-19 Briefing #8: Community responses to COVID-19 – The role and contribution of community-led infrastructure
Published: 2020
Briefing 7 identified community-led infrastructure (CLI) as an additional dimension of the structures and systems that support civic life, alongside social and voluntary sector infrastructure. This paper takes this a step further by exploring what CLI looks like on the ground, how it is supported and its role in responding to crises, such as th…
Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient – The experience of community businesses during Covid-19 – Research Summary
Published: 2020
# Preview | Download RI-28S-Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient.pdf126kB Author(s) Eve Avdoulos Zoë Wilkins Victoria Boelman Citation Avdoulos, E., Wilkins, Z. and Boelman, V. (2020) Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient – The experience of community businesses during Covid-19 – Research
Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient – The experience of community businesses during Covid-19
Published: 2020
This report, written by The Young Foundation, explores the impacts of Covid-19 on community businesses in England and the ways they adapted in response. The fieldwork took place online over a 12-week period from June to August 2020. Across this period, up to 27 representatives from community businesses answered themed questions, entered weekly …
Health on the high street
Published: 2020
Health and wealth have long gone hand in hand. A healthy community is one that is more productive, and a community with more wealth is healthier and enjoys more years of healthy life. Rather than further decimating our high streets as we emerge from COVID-19, we believe creating multi-functional, ‘destination’ high streets and town centres …
Working with your MP
Published: 2020
Across the country, Big Local partnerships offer insight into how communities can engage with their MPs.We know many have a good relationship with their local MP, but nearly half haven’t engaged with theirs at all.
This toolkit gives an overview of some of the ways that you can engage with your local MP and provides real life examples of how…
We can’t actually be a pub we can only be ‘more than’ a pub: The Bevy in lockdown
Published: 2020
‘We can’t actually be a pub, we can only be ‘more than’ a pub: The Bevy in lockdown’ tells the story the experiences of members of the team at The Bevy, a community pub in Moulsecoomb and Bevendean in Brighton, as they dealt with the emotional and practical challenges during eight weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown between April and June …
The Green Book: Annex A2 – Place Based Analysis
Published: 2020
The Green Book is guidance issued by HM Treasury on how to appraise policies, programmes and projects. It also provides guidance on the design and use of monitoring and evaluation before, during and after implementation. Appraisal of alternative policy options is an inseparable part of detailed policy development and design. This guidance conce…
Technical Appendix – Employment and skills: The role of community businesses
Published: 2020
This technical appendix supports Power to Change’s report on employment and skills development within community businesses. It provides more information on the technical details of the study including a literature review and methodology.
Rapid research COVID-19 Briefing #7: Community responses to COVID-19 – Towards community-led infrastructure
Published: 2020
Research on the role of community action during COVID-19 to date has suggested that well-established ‘community-led infrastructure’ (CLI) – that is, networks of residents, community leadership, trust, relationships with agencies, and access to money – can make for an effective community response to COVID-19. This briefing situates CLI i…
Positioning Peer Research in a Policy Context
Published: 2020
With increasing interest towards evidence-based policy, comes a greater understanding of the value in using the experience and perspectives of people directly affected by social challenges. Local government and service providers are acknowledging the enhanced effectiveness of public policy when involving those with lived experience – or ‘expe…
Network Support: Community business peer networking before and during coronavirus
Published: 2020
Power to Change supports and promotes community businesses both through specific programmes and through wider field-shaping market development. This strand of work aims to build a supportive policy environment and infrastructure for community business to flourish. As part of an ongoing evaluation of the market development work, this paper exami…