About us

Our philosophy

Community can mean many things but is always at the heart of what we do, whether that’s supporting individuals to grow, bringing different groups together or by talking about shared experiences.

 

We work to ensure that all stakeholders and community groups are given a voice and empowered. We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and operate a policy of anti-discriminatory practice.

Our aims

We aim to make communities realise their own power. We believe that when a community is put at the heart of their own development amazing things can happen. Engaging with different and diverse communities learning and listening, while bringing our own learning, knowledge and experience to make a positive difference is central to what we do.

 

We want to effect constructive change and believe we have to take everyone with us to do that. This way we can embed sustainable practices that can be maintained and built on by communities after a project is complete.

Our way of working

In our work, we use a range of frameworks and models to support good practice, and have experience of tools such as participatory appraisal, participative consultation, and planning and evaluation tools.

 

We work with stakeholders to develop evaluation frameworks using a theory of change approach and undertake external evaluations to feed into learning.

WSA Community is keen to encourage:



  • learning and sharing across projects and initiatives


  • working together to achieve better outcomes for communities


  • listening to, and sharing of, lived experience to have a real impact on change

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Who we are

WSA Community is committed to working in partnership with colleagues to ensure the best team is involved in delivering on all projects. You can find out more about us, our partners here. 

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Looking for a Community Partner?

We are committed to capacity building and strengthening community development. Please do get in touch with us around work that you are doing – we’re interested in sharing good practice and learning from other initiatives as well as offering support and intervention around our broad scope of community development, participation, networking, training and evaluation skills.