COGS (Communities & Organisations: Growth & Support) is co-ordinating the Regional Empowerment Partnership Programme in Yorkshire and the Humber.

It is an independent organisation specialising in policy and practice development in the areas of:

• community engagement, empowerment and development
• people based regeneration
• group and event facilitation
• strategic planning and participatory evaluation

What we do...
We provide a range of services including action research, tailor made participatory training programmes, consultancy and evaluation. This has led to the writing and production of papers, reports, training manuals / materials, handbooks and other publications.
How we do it…
The following principles underpin our work:

• Involving people in processes which are developmental in their own right
• The appropriate use of imaginative and creative approaches to enable participation
• Community engagement in the policies and programmes which shape people's lives.
• The need for community development agencies and practitioners to network, understand, reflect upon and learn from context and practice.
• The development and understanding of community development as a local activity, as a strategic intervention and as a policy framework
• The importance of continual reflection and evaluation of progress.

We can be contacted at:
Millennium House, 30 Junction Road
Sheffield S11 8XB
Tel / Fax: 0114 268 7070
Email: mail@cogs.uk.net
Website: www.cogs.uk.net