Inclusive Communities

Building inclusive rural communities

The Theme

This Carnegie Rural Action Research Programme Theme aims to ‘ encourage new and effective ways of promoting inclusive rural communities, addressing discrimination and developing ‘best practice’ which can be shared across nations.’

Several linked issues will be addressed by this programme, the existence of excluded communities and groups, notably the position of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees and of members of black and minority ethnic communities including travellers. We are also working with the New Economics Foundation around issues of financial exclusion. Identifying models of good practice for rural community development around these concerns is of critical importance. Carnegie are also working with the Commission for Rural Communities, the Young Foundation and the University of Oxford to explore different ways of understanding and measuring need and social exclusion.

Six organisations have been awarded contracts to carry out action research work under this theme -these are:

• The Rural Media Company
• North Wales Race Equality Network (NWREN)
• The Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB)
• The Weyland Partnership
• SEEDS- Solidarity-Equality-Education-Diversity-Support
• Rural Community Network (NI)
  

Further information about each piece of action research work can be found by clicking on the links on the right.

Consultant

Philomena De Lima has 20 years experience of research and consultancy on rural equality issues at a regional, national/UK and international level. Currently working with the UHI Policy Web, UHI Millenium Institute which is based in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

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