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Evaluating Cross-Community Work in Holme Wood: Making Connections?

Orton, A.

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This report shares the learning from a local project carried out by the Active Faith Communities Programme which was designed to improve cross-cultural relationships on Holme Wood, an outer-city estate in Bradford. With policy increasingly concerned with finding ways to promote cohesion and meaningful interaction between different groups, this report considers the possibilities and challenges for practice in a particular setting. Holme Wood has traditionally been populated by people from white British ethnic backgrounds. This is gradually changing through a small and diffuse inflow of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds. Key findings include: the importance of taking into account the local context when designing interventions to improve cross-community relationships; the tendency of ‘newcomers’ to the estate who were from different cultural backgrounds to be isolated; the importance of bringing these isolated newcomers together for mutual support, while also developing their opportunities for wider relationships; the significance of the challenges inherent in this work, including: – the time-consuming nature of the relationship building work which is necessary to do this work effectively; – potential tensions between work which aims to develop opportunities for mutual support between newcomers and work which aims to connect these newcomers with the more established residents and organisations.

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Orton, A. (2008). Evaluating Cross-Community Work in Holme Wood: Making Connections?

Other Type Other
Online Publication Date Dec 15, 2008
Publication Date Dec 15, 2008
Deposit Date Jun 9, 2010
Publicly Available Date Dec 6, 2011
Keywords Diversity, Cohesion, Interaction, Practice.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1119451
Additional Information URL of output: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/evaluating-cross-community-work-holme-wood-making-connections

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