Deficits-based approach

A deficits-based approach focuses on the perceived needs, weaknesses, and deficiencies of a community often derived by data from an external viewpoint. This reactive response means the community and individuals within it are viewed through the lens of "problems".

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Calling all runners! Take on a fundraising challenge for disadvantaged children

We need your help to fight education inequality. Can you support by fundraising for us in the Birmingham 10K on 5th May? At Action Tutoring, we believe in the power of tutoring. We’re dedicated to ensuring more disadvantaged students receive the support they need to reach their full academic potential, and achieve important pass grades in English and maths. But we cannot do it without you.
Awareness Ambassador

As an Awareness Ambassador, you can play an important role in increasing awareness of diabetes locally and online. You will support Diabetes UK campaigns by taking leaflets and posters along to local community venues such as libraries and community centres and like and share on our social media.
Events Volunteer

Events volunteers help raise awareness of diabetes and Diabetes UK at events around Leicestershire. Events volunteers talk to members of the public in a friendly and enthusiastic manner to raise awareness of diabetes and Diabetes UK, offer appropriate Diabetes UK materials and answer general queries.
Birmingham Hospice Charity Shops - Volunteer Vacancies

Volunteers needed at Birmingham Hospice retail stores. We have 21 shops and are always in need of volunteers.

How to start an Urban Room

“Every town and city should have a physical space where people can go to understand, debate, and get involved in the past, present and future of where they live, work and play. The purpose of these Urban Rooms is to foster meaningful connections between people and place, using creative methods of engagement to encourage active participation in the future of our buildings, streets, and neighbourhoods.”
Reducing men’s social isolation: engagement and retention

Voluntary and community groups running activities for older people often find it easier to engage women than men. While men are not a uniform group, research reflects this reality, showing that men are less likely to get involved with organisations which explicitly cater for older people. In order to find out how to best engage men Connect Hackney funded four projects to test new approaches to reducing men’s social isolation
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper develops the argument that post-COVID-19 recovery strategies need to focus on building back fairer cities and communities
COVID-19, Inequality and Older People: Developing Community-Centred Interventions

This paper considers the basis for a ‘community-centred’ response to COVID-19. It highlights the pressures on communities weakened by austerity, growing inequalities, and cuts to social infrastructure.
Ageing Better National Learning

Ageing Better national learning can be segmented into three clearly defined areas: context, connections and ecosystem. These three interconnected segments build a picture of the macro and micro factors, services and support systems, that help us to better understand loneliness and social isolation in people aged over 50.
The International Standards for Community Development

International Association for Community Development offers full and summary versions in multiple languages of its International Standards for Community Development.
Shifting Sands and Different Look-Outs: Working With Communities Collaboratively - T.E.D in East Lindsey

Shifting Sands and Different Look-Outs. This bulletin look at different shifts in learning and practice in the move from working ‘in’ to working with communities collaboratively. From T.E.D in East Lindsey, an Ageing Better project in rural Lincolnshire.
From Storytelling to Social Change: The Power of Story in the Community Building

Stories are an important part of social change because they have the power to shape the way people think and feel about their worlds and how they interact with in them
21st Century Public Servant

Researching the future public service workforce
Community Building, Ageing Well Torbay

A summary learning document that explores a community development project in 30 local neighbourhoods across Torbay, Devon.