Community Matters

Submitted by Jo Pearce on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 12:58

www.ivar.org.uk/our-work/explore-our-work/community-matters 

Project name: Understanding local political participation

Partners: Community Matters

IVAR project manager: Dr Mike Aiken - mike@ivar.org.uk

This research programme aims to understand and explain the contribution of community-run multipurpose voluntary organisations to maintaining and building good levels of formal and informal political participation. The research will focus on Community Matters members in those neighbourhoods which score strongly on the index of multiple deprivation, but which are in Local Authorities which had relatively good or above rankings for participation and related social capital indicators in the 2008 Place Survey.

The project will begin in May 2010 and run through to March 2011. A final report drawing together the findings from all the case studies and description of the process of engaging and working with community researchers will be produced by March 2011. Learn more