As well as the pamphlet on the ‘Big Society, quoted elsewhere, Gabriel Chanan, formerly of the Community Development Foundation, and his colleague Colin Miller offer a range of papers, including

• one offering practical standards for community development that are easier to understand and use than the National Occupational Standards
• another on ‘Mobilising the Hidden Economy of the Third Sector’ which argues that people who hope that the third sector will find ever more economical ways to enable communities to cope while public service cuts make life harder are mistakenly looking at the third sector as if it was a unified block. People urge all groups to model themselves on social enterprises, under the illusion that smaller groups are ‘grant dependent’ and social enterprises are more economical. It is the mass of small community groups which are in fact by far the most economical part of the sector. Community development can boost these but needs to be done in a more thorough, well planned way than it often is.