South West Foundation

'Without the Community Researcher training we would not have known where to begin - now we have saved the land on our estate from being sold off for development and managed to obtain a grant of £50,000 for a new children's play area'

(Community Researcher from Litchfield)

'The training was very useful to our research about how to improve the use and sustainability of our local community centre, we have many new avenues to explore after the training finishes too' (Community Researcher, Horfield, Bristol)

'The training helped us realise where to start... the councillors who came to our presentation at the end of our training gave us £1,000 as they were so impressed, since our training our group have continued organising trips for local children and been involved with more fundraising and campaigning, even putting together a film with an MP' (Community Researcher, Windmill Action Group)

'The training really produces a difference, a change in people's outlooks, and therefore changes happen in the communities' (Mary Edwards, Trainer)

'Thank god for training like this' (Riviera Housing)

'The questionnaire, data, and interview training the course provides made our research on our community centre much more viable, we were able to make the research into proper evidence, something people take notice of as it was not just our opinions' (Community Researcher, Horfield Bristol)

'The area has got a lot better and has a fantastic park ...the key to it is people from the estate saying they want something better, agencies are hopeless at doing it off their own back' (MP Adrian Sanders)

'The Community Researchers really did make things happen... they had a big impact'

(NS Housing, Housing Association)