SRD - Services

Community Research & Consultation

SRD offers community consultation and research expertise and support for community and voluntary sector organisations and their communities. SRD endeavours to work with communities to conduct meaningful community consultation and research projects.

The photo on the right shows SRD fieldworkers, consulting the service users about the Langworthy Cornerstone Community Centre.

Training & Capacity Building

SRD delivers affordable and effective training courses in Community Consultation, Market Research, Participatory Techniques and Household Surveys, to local people and third sector organisations.

Photo left shows local residents attending a training course in community research as part of a local research project around employment & skills.

Project Evaluation

Project Evaluation makes up an important part of the services offered by SRD. Previous evaluations undertaken were the Home Office funded Guide Neighbourhood Programme and the award winning Seedley and Langworthy In Bloom community project.

More recently, SRD conducted an evaluation of the Trust’s Targeted Support Fund Programme on behalf of the Community Foundation for Greater Manchester.

Photo right shows Martin Halton working on a project evaluation.

Data Analysis and Interpretation

SRD has adopted a community led approach in conducting Residents / Household surveys, training and supporting local people to successfully conduct these surveys themselves.

Photo left shows a local research team analysing data from a local research project.

Informal Economy Research Project

(January - May in collaboration with Oxfam, Community Links - on behalf of Salford City Council, Economic Development)

SRD recruited, trained and supervised 8 local community researchers to conduct 400 random, street-based interviews with Langworthy residents concerning issues relating to the Informal Economy.

The research team sought to find out about the size and levels of cash-in-hand work in the ward. The information will be used to inform policy and practice to support residents moving to ‘official’, formal employment.

Highlighted below are the Community Researchers attending a research training session prior to the survey-work commencing.