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            The Civil Renewal Unit's audit of resources for community engagement 
              and empowerment
            Our colleagues at Involve have been commissioned by the Civil Renewal 
              Unit to carry out a comprehensive audit of resources that support 
              community engagement and empowerment. The objective is to build 
              up a list of resources that people find useful as well as indicating 
              where some of the gaps lie. This is a diverse field in which contributions 
              are made by many individual practitioners and small companies as 
              well as by the public sector, so any attempts to make it easier 
              to find these resources are welcomed.
            Involve are looking for your recommendations in the following areas:
              
			  - Toolkits / Guidance
- Evaluations / Case studies
- Networks / Support Organisations
- Training providers
- Funding
- Methodology Research
We think that good engagement is vital to the health of our democracy 
              and this exercise will help to direct customers to the better practitioners 
              and to generally raise standards in the engagement field. To take 
              part in the audit go to the Involve website at http://www.involve.org.uk/audit 
              and complete their template form. Dialogue by Design's work falls 
              into several of these categories so please remember us if you think 
              we deserve to be included.