£10m Sheffield-led centre will help combat inequality
A £10m research centre, with funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), aims to help transform community engagement across the UK.
The Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness (C4) is a collaboration between community, research and policy partners.
It will examine community activities designed to reduce inequality, analysing what works, what doesn’t and why.
This will allow successful approaches to be scaled up and replicated and provide policy-making insights to local government and grass roots organisations.
Professor Alison Park, who heads UKRI’s work on creating opportunities and improving outcomes, said: “C4s long- term aim is to help reduce the effects of poverty and create equal opportunities wherever people live.
“They’ll do this by building a solid evidence base, which is vital if policy-makers are to make the best decisions.
“But they’ll also create five new hubs in Alloa, Belfast, Brixton, Sheffield and Talgarth, to help ensure successful initiatives are captured and shared across the UK.”
This ambitious project is led by Sheffield Hallam University in collaboration with:
- Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface
- Darnall Wellbeing
- Local Trust
- London Metropolitan University
- Market Development Association
- Queen’s University Belfast
- The Brixton Project
- The Young Foundation
- University of Stirling
The centre is supported by the UKRI’s investment in creating opportunities and improving outcomes, which prioritises the reduction of inequality, enhanced community connectedness and well-being.
It is one of a number of new or existing centres sharing UKRI funding.
