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 have been 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. Carnegie has also worked 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.

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

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

Further information about each piece of action research work can be found by clicking on the links on the right. Lead consultant, Philomena De Lima has also written a short briefing which summarises this work.