Sample Our Work

You might like to have a look at some of the varied work we have done.

Colin, Meta and Bill

Colin Rochester and Meta Zimmeck, The Case for Statutory Compacts between Welsh Local Authorities and the Third Sector: Summary Report and Recommendations. Cardiff: Welsh Government, 2013.

Colin Rochester, The Case for Statutory Compacts between Welsh Local Authorities and the Third Sector: Annex A: A Report on Preliminary Interviews. Cardiff: Welsh Government, 2013.

Meta Zimmeck and Bill Rushbrooke, The Case for Statutory Compacts between Welsh Local Authorities and the Third Sector: Annex C: Literature Review. Cardiff:  Welsh Government, 2013.

Meta Zimmeck, Colin Rochester and Bill Rushbrooke, Use it or lose it: A summative evaluation of the Compact. Birmingham: Commission for the Compact, 2011.

Colin

Colin Rochester, Trends in volunteering. Belfast: Volunteer Now, 2018. (Available at https://www.volunteernow.co.uk/app/uploads/2019/10/Trends-in-Volunteering-Final.pdf)

Colin Rochester, ‘A new vision and voice’ in Taking action on poverty: Does civil society hold the answer, supplement to the New Statesmen, 2-8 May 2015. PDF Rochester New Statesman 2015.pdf

Interview with Colin Rochester, ‘How the “sector” was invented’, Third Sector, 18 February 2014. (Available at https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/interview-colin-rochester/infrastructure/article/1281100)

Colin Rochester, Making sense of volunteering: A literature review. London: Commission on the Future of Volunteering, 2006.

Colin Rochester et al., A review of the Home Office Older Volunteers InitiativeHome Office Research Study 248. London: Home Office, 2002.

Meta

Meta Zimmeck, Surveying the Surveys: Review of quantitative research findings on volunteering in Northern Ireland.  Belfast: Volunteer Now, 2018. (Also available at https://www.volunteernow.co.uk/app/uploads/2019/10/Surveying-the-surveys-PWR2Z-REPORT-FINAL.pdf)

Meta Zimmeck, Volunteering in Northern Ireland: Findings from the Census 2011. Belfast: Volunteer Now, 2018. (Also available at https://www.volunteernow.co.uk/app/uploads/2019/10/Volunteering-in-Northern-Ireland-Findings-from-Census-2011-REPORT-Final.pdf)

Cathy Pharoah and Meta Zimmeck, United Kingdom Country Report: EUFORI Study: European Foundations for Research and Innovation. Brussels: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, 2015. (Available at http://euforistudy.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/United-Kingdom.pdf)

Meta Zimmeck et al., ‘Active participation in communities’, in 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey: people, families and communities (ed. Chris Attwood et al.). Home Office Research Study 270. Home Office, 2003.

Meta Zimmeck, The Right Stuff? New Ways of Thinking About Managing Volunteers, Institute for Volunteering Research, 2001.