SPH was commissioned by a County Council to evaluate a community organising initiative that had been operating across three electoral wards in a large local town. The community organising project involved recruiting community leaders from local civic institutions to form a network. The network engaged with their local communities to identify and prioritise issues impacting on health and wellbeing in the local area. Actions to address the prioritised issues were developed and taken forward either by the network or by statutory agencies or both of these following a period of negotiation with community leaders. The agreed actions were presented to the public at a specially convened event. The County Council commissioned two external organisations to help establish the network and support its community organising activities.
SPH completed a qualitative impact evaluation of the community organising project through a combination of face to face and telephone interviews with stakeholders and a document review.
