Web Resources

Click on these links to find some of the reports, projects and organisations we have come across in the development of Cohesion Counts.

If you know of other resources which you’d like to share with other users of this website please email the link and we will add them to this page.

key agencies and reports

Department of Communities and Local Government – Building Cohesive Communities – what frontline staff and community activists need to know October 2009

Institute for Voluntary Action Research – Report on bridge-building activities January 2009

Promoting intergenerational understanding through Community Philosophy October 2008

Community engagement and community cohesion June 2008

Institute for Community Cohesion website

Neighbourliness + Empowerment = Wellbeing. Is there a formula for happy communities?

Housing KLOES August 2007

A range of projects and research on community cohesion

Community Cohesion & Housing – a good practice guide

HMR and Cohesion October 2009

Beth Johnson Foundation – intergenerational work

Peacemaker – creating opportunities for young people from different communities and ethnicities to mix

Building sustainable communities

Guidance for local authorities on community cohesion contingency planning and tension monitoring

Building Cohesive Communities: What frontline staff and community activists need to know October 2009

Guidance for local authorities on how to mainstream community cohesion into other services August 2009

Guidance on meaningful interaction: How encouraging positive relationships between people can help build community cohesion January 2009

Guidance on building a local sense of belonging January 2009

data and information sources

Census information

Local Public Services Performance and Priorities

archive

Legacy Planning for Pathfinder 2004

Community Cohesion: Seven Steps – A Practitioner’s Toolkit March 2005

Philosophy to improve teaching and learning

Contour Housing Philosophical Enquiry service