REAP - social projects

REAP recognises that good sustainable development at a local as well as global level has a social dimension as well as the more obvious economic and environmental elements. Therefore, our work in the community means we must be prepared to engage with individuals and groups and address the issues which they feel are important to them.

We aim to promote cohesive communities that have the ability to meet their own needs and do this by engaging in the following actions:

Social Auditing

Social auditing is a straightforward process by which agencies, organisations and local groups can gauge and illustrate their social, economic and environmental benefits and limitations. Simply, it is a method of self appraisal to determine whether an organisation meets its stated values and objectives within its own working community.

Organisations that have been involved have varied widely and represented all sectors of the community including community enterprises, credit unions and after school clubs. Feedback from participants has been universally positive! For more information on social accounting click here

REAP makes use of interactive keypads as a tool for community consultation events. They can be hired out for groups/consultants to use or REAP can be commissioned to run a consultation event for community groups, agencies, events, businesses etc.

They are a fun, easy, non-threatening and quick way of gathering in or feeding back information. For more details of the electronic voting system click here.

Offering an administrative support service for voluntary organisations

REAP staff offer the use of their expertise gained in running a small social enterprise as a service to other social enterprises or community projects. Services offered include financial administration, payroll services, desk top publishing etc. As REAP is a not-for-profit company, and can integrate our own administrative mechanisms with any contracting organisations, this means we can offer a service which will save voluntary organisations time and money.

We believe that people are key to the concept of sustainable development and aim to bring this approach into all that we do. This is not to say that we take a simplistic ‘communities good, agencies bad’ approach to issues, but that we work with a range of stakeholders on initiatives which help us all to achieve our common goals.

In the past this has included community consultation and engagement work within the context of community planning; healthy eating and food access; youth consultation processes, community led action research.