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"2007-08 Citizenship Survey: Empowered Communities Topic Report 02/11/2009 Using 2007-08 Citizenship Survey data, this report provides an in-depth examination of community empowerment: whether people feel they can influence local and national decisions; whether they would like to be more involved in decision making; what would make it easier to influence decision making; and how people would influence decisions if they wanted to. It also looks at people's trust in institutions and what activities people actually take part in (civic activism, civic consultation, civic participation and volunteering). It is one of a series of annual reports from the 2007-08 Citizenship Survey. Other reports cover Volunteering and Charitable Giving, Identity and Values, Community Cohesion and Race, Religion and Equalities."

This white paper can be linked to the "informal adult learning agenda" - becasue if learners are empowered to make a choice and create a fun fab learning environment, then this buzz will carry them through to a habit of learning. Check the forum topic here, where other stuff has been posted

"Building Cohesive Communities: What frontline staff and community activists need to know 20/10/2009 This CLG publication provides guidance at a glance for frontine workers on techniques which can help build community cohesion."

Best Practice: basically copy what other providers are doing to empower their sympathizers, champions and angels in rasing funds. Could we do the same for AFL partners and for CfL?