The Outreach Network held five events between May and November 2007. You can download notes and minutes from all the events below.

In November, the group heard a presentation on the new FSA Parents' Guide to Money and the anti-poverty work going on in Childrens' Centres. Jane still has some spare copies of the Parents' Guide to Money if anyone would like one.

The Minutes and Attachments from the Engage meeting on the 10th October 2007 are available to download below

Introduction

Barriers to reporting soft outcomes to funders

The short-term nature of funding streams, and the general funding environment presents barriers to soft outcome (or qualitative) data being reported to funders.

Soft Outcomes: A Shared Approach is a guide to help projects capture soft outcomes, and demonstrate them to funders with confidence. It is a result of research work within the programme that can be downloaded here.

Members of the Equal Core team and a small number of professionals have completed the final Transnational Programme visit with a trip to Pescara & Chieti. The visit was split into two parts: 2 days of workshops and meetings centred on corporate social responsibility, and a further 2 days of conferences on Actions 2 and 3.

The focus of the Centre for Research into Older Workers (CROW's) work is to raise awareness of age as a dimension of equality amongst local Equal projects and of its implication for their work, and to inform, advise and guide local projects to address the needs of older workers in relation to training and employment.

CROW delivered a seminar for local projects and partners on the needs of older workers in November 2006.

The University of Sussex is working alongside Action 2 projects to research how the principles of equality, empowerment, innovation and partnership inform their practice, and to identify barriers and solutions to labour market participation and any innovative practice developed locally. Their Equal pages can be visited here.

An interim list of some of the sources listed below can also be found in the Soft Outcome & Soft Skills Report.

The Outcomes Approach

A workshop titled Soft Skills and Outcomes in and Beyond Equal Brighton and Hove - An interactive workshop took place on the 27th September 2006 at the Jubilee Library.

The aim of this event was to create a common set of working definitions and understandings. The eventual aim of this work is that development of skills and practices facilitated by EBH will last beyond the end of the programme and increase the capacity of partner organisations to deliver effectively and acquire funding.

Those taking part included: