ADEPT is a specialist and award winning national community development agency ... more
We are regularly commissioned to provide bespoke packages of support and training to enable the development and independence of community groups. ... more
We work collaboratively and in partnership with many public sector bodies to provide developmental training for their staff as well as those in local communities with whom they engage. ... more
Learning Buddies
This is an exciting new project, developed jointly with Warwickshire Community & Voluntary Action, to develop a network of Learning Buddies across Coventry & Warwickshire.
Learning Buddies will encourage and motivate other community members to learn new things, have a go, both for their own pleasure and for more formal reasons; to gain knowledge and skills, and try new things!
Follow this link for more about our learning buddies project
Reach out and touch!
How do you reach out to and engage more alienated, disengaged or atomised communities? At ADEPT, it's what we do!
Over the summer, ADEPT has engaged with local communities in two areas of Coventry to involve them in the designs of new children's play areas. The participation of the local people was tremendous. Follow this link for more about this recent community engagement project.
Helping self help
Resilient and resourceful communities are essential. ADEPT has developed a package of support to develop 'Peer Groups' within communities, who can offer informal and unintrusive, practical support to the unwaged and their families and friends. Follow this link for more about our Peer Supporter project
Community cohesion in a recession?
As the sad fallout of the current financial meltdown once again starts to affect the poorest, most vulnerable and most excluded communities, councils may be looking to past experience to see how best to use their increasingly tightly-guarded resources for best community impact.
ADEPT was active through the last recession, and has a fund of knowledge and expertise on combining employment help, practical training and community development on a shoestring.
Improving community cohesion brings its own rewards. It's also well aligned with the govenrment's drives towards local empowerment. And it may offer one of the few effective means of seeking to minimse the rise in crime that so often accompanies a downturn.
To talk through possible approaches that might suit your communities, contact ADEPT
Watch a short video report on some of ADEPT's community cohesion work with Government Office for the West Midlands:
Different people, different communities, different problems.
ADEPT has decades of experience of supporting and championing community activism.
Local communities are at the heart of what we do - supporting self-help, independence and self-determination.
We offer training and development packages to those workers who engage with local communities to enhance their own service delivery.
We can tailor a package of support to your needs - unique to your area and focusing on the needs of specific communities.
We are unusual in operating at a national level while delivering real work embedded in local neighbourhoods, so bringing added value to the services we provide.
To find out what we can do for you check out our website or telephone Denise Taylor on
07980 748470 or email: denise@adept.org.uk
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