What we are actually trying to do !

Thanks for both comments - here is a little more detail about the project for those who want to know! - The work links with what Tom Alex and Charmain are doing in looking at the feasibility of a national volunteer scheme - the CEAC that I keep mentioning is a Community Education and Action Centre and is supposed to be a decentralised means of empowering the local communities by helping set up groups, run training etc - bit like the CVCs in Wales in some ways - except that they have very few resources; my job is to look at how that capacacity could be built, and if it is feasible to do it with Volunteers or for it to coordinate a volunteer resource base. Tom is looking at the potential demand in other areas both public sector and in the NGO sector; Alex is looking at supply - i.e young people coming in through the Youth Opportunities Programme and Charmain is looking at a communication strategy to engage Councils and other public sector bodies in the process. As you can see it all overlaps and is quite open at this stage in the process - so the workshops we have been doing have been part of the consultation phase. Hope this makes some sense!!