News (Evaluation)

What happens when you reimagine adult social support from the ground up? Dr Vicky Mason-Angelow shares what happened in Leeds following a two year pilot.

Community Led Support, in partnership with the NIHR funded research team led by the University of Birmingham, has won a prestigious European Social Services Award (ESSA).

Do you have experts by experience who want to get involved in research and evaluation for your organisation? This blog from our research and evaluation manager, Vicky Mason-Angelow, explains more.

Read about the Bringing People Together Programme and our role as learning partner.

It's hard to believe that over a year has passed since we became part of the Bringing People Together Network, collaborating with numerous wonderful organisations, thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK.

In our role as learning partner for the Bringing People Together programme, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, we created a series of virtual campfires. Sharing learning with each other and the wider local and national community to explore what works and what doesn’t is integral to the programme.

Mike Richardson, Community Led Support Site lead and data specialist, writes about some of the thinking behind our new Valuing Community Led Support report.

Bringing people together around a campfire has been an age-old tradition for centuries. It’s a place to share stories with each other, discussing ‘hot’ topics, developing ‘simmering’ ideas and ‘sparking’ new ones.

keeping communities connected and engaged in the Sport for Good initiative.

Collaborative, coproduced and community focussed research and evaluation. Concentrating on what works, for whom and in what circumstances.