The WAVE Trust has produced this review. One of the six ‘Messages’ that it offers is:

“Galvanising the community is the secret of success. Perhaps the most encouraging form of prevention/intervention we found could be summed up by the phrase ‘galvanising community’. This approach to building functional, healthy communities shows the power of an idea adopted by a large number of citizens at the same time, and its characteristics include overcoming the challenge of reaching the most at-risk, and therefore hardest to reach, potential beneficiaries of support”.