Welcome to Inspire East

About the Community Development Network

The Community Development Network is a gathering of community development practitioners from across the East of England who want to share knowledge and ways of working.

 

Joining the Network

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The Community Development Network is open to public, private, community and voluntary sector practitioners who use a community development approach to their work. The network is free to join.

Next Network gathering

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The next Community Development Network gathering will take on 3rd June 2010 at the Waterfront in Chelmsford. Follow the link for more details.

What is Community Development?

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Community Development is the process of developing active and sustainable communities based on social justice and mutual respect. Follow the link below to find out more.

Terms of Reference for the Network

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Terms of Reference for the Network are currently under development by the Steering Group. For more information on the Steering Group, follow the link.

About the steering group

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The Community Development Network has a steering group that is made up of a number of Community Development practitioners from across the East of England.

Your ideas for topics

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The Community Development Network steering group welcomes ideas for topics to be covered at the Network meetings. Please email your ideas through.

Community Development Survey 2009

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The Network carried out a survey to all its members in April-May 2009 to find out what elements of the network are most important to colleagues and to suggest where we can focus our work programme and activities in the future.