Duty to be Involved
Understanding the community’s perspective on community empowerment policy. Participants from some of London’s smallest VCS organisations were provided with the tools to assess the influence of their community organisation.
LCF Publication No. 8 | 15 pages
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Empowering London: Community Empowerment, Local Area Agreements and a Thriving Third Sector
This conference brought together statutory representatives and others from Local Strategic Partnerships and local Third Sector leaders to debate the nature of an environment for a thriving third sector, and this report includes an empowerment case study of Lewisham’s Young Mayor.
LCF Publication No. 10 | 23 pages
Councillors in Control? Exploring the Relationship Between Representative and Participative Democracy
Delivered by London Civic Forum, and supported by Capital Ambition and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), this event brought together Councillors from across London to learn more about the details in the community empowerment agenda and how they could benefit from the proposals, providing an open space for discussion about the relationship between representative and participative democracy.
LCF Publication No. 26 | 15 pages
Community Development: The Way Forward
The Community Development Exchange (CDX) facilitated an event that was held to discuss the relationship between current government policy and community development work. In focusing on the involvement of practitioners at the local level, participants explored the opportunities and challenges such involvement presents in the context of the recent recession.
LCF Publication No. 29 | 13 pages
Power in Local Communities: Sharing, Growing and Knowing, The Role of Community Development
This event provided an opportunity for community development workers to learn about human rights in community development.
LCF Publication No. 30 | 17 pages
Direct Action and Grassroots Democracy: The Legacy of Saul Alinsky
This event, jointly hosted by the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, London Civic Forum and Goldsmiths, University of London, was held to mark the centenary of the birth of Saul Alinsky, a renowned community organiser. The event explored his philosophy and was followed by a discussion of grassroots democracy in contemporary Britain.
LCF Publication No. 31 | 56 pages
Community Voices for Health
An event jointly held by London Civic Forum and the Greater London Authority that brought together community groups with an interest in health and, in launching a new health network for London, enabled the groups to effect the direction of health policy in the year ahead.
LCF Publication No. 34 | 11 pages
The Role of Community Development in Health and Well-Being
Hosted by the Community Development Network for London (CDNL), this event was attended by over 80 London-based community activists and workers who shared their experiences and best practice in working with communities in the context of health and wellbeing.
LCF Publication No. 35 | 29 pages
Carmel Bridge and Praxis
This report reflects on the work of the first Tower Hamlets Take Part Initiative between Carmel Bridge and Praxis. A diverse group of local people used a range of participatory approaches to explore issues around civic engagement.
LCF Publication No. 43 | 32 pages
Newham Active Community Team
This report details a dynamic, interactive Active Community event held in Newham to develop local communities’ understanding of Take Part and explore ideas around community cohesion.
LCF Publication No. 44 | 10 pages
Account 3
This Take Part initiative in Tower Hamlets used informal outreach methods to engage local women in meetings with local decision-makers. Outcomes of this highly successful project included the creation of fifteen new Tenant Engagement roles and the creation of a Bulgarian Women’s Forum.
LCF Publication No. 45 | 13 pages
A New Voice in London
Summary of the process and outcomes of an action learning project that was designed to provide a voice to the hidden communities of London, empowering them to influence decisions that affect their lives.
“I learned how important it is to hear the voices of people and how powerful the action learning method is to get the policy makers to understand the plight of the vulnerable and disadvantaged.”
LCF Publication No. 46 | 5 pages
Lost in Translation: (MIS) Understanding Youth Empowerment
An event delivered in partnership by London Civic Forum, Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS), VCS Engage, Speaking Out, Partnership for Young London, London Youth and UK Youth Parliament to encourage dialogue between young people and policy makers and develop recommendations on how empowerment activities should be designed and delivered in London.
LCF Publication No. 51 | 23 pages
Community Development and Climate Change
This event explored common ground across local, third sector and climate change agendas
“Neighbourhood communities are rather like gardens with lots of plants and grass with deep, intertwined roots. The challenge is how to help the new plants of recent environmental activism settle in the garden and link well with the existing plants and roots. This way they can support and nourish each other.”
LCF Publication No. 62 | 20 pages
Keeping London Moving
London Civic Forum and Transport for London (TfL) held an event to encourage dialogue between members of London’s community and voluntary sector and TfL and to enable the sharing of ideas and concerns. The report includes a speech from Kulveer Ranger, Director of Transport Policy, Greater London Authority and outlines Transport deliverables due by 2012.
LCF Publication No. 70 | 39 pages
