Partners
Raising Voices in Research (RViR) is delivered by a partnership of organisations. Through the project, the partnership has engaged with over 30 voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations and even more through our Research Collaborative events.
Read on to find out more about the partners and participating VCSE organisations.
Project Partners
Action Hampshire
Action Hampshire is an infrastructure organisation that supports Hampshire’s VCSE sector to thrive. Action Hampshire supports VCSE organisations across the county and beyond with information, peer networking and support, amplification, insight and voice. Our mission is to strengthen and connect VCSEs; promote and support community-led and place-based action; and champion diversity, challenging inequality and disadvantage. Action Hampshire are the lead co-ordinator for RViR.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (HIOW ICB) are here for our population. We have over 1.9m people living across Hampshire and Isle of Wight and our purpose is to ensure they are getting the best possible healthcare for their needs throughout their lives. We were formed in 2022 as a new NHS statutory body as part of national changes to
how the NHS works to lead and oversee the planning and delivery of strategic and operational priorities, the allocation of NHS resources, and the performance, quality and safety of services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. We do this with the aim of improving the health and healthcare outcomes of our local communities, by working with NHS England and local NHS providers, local authorities and other partners as part of an ‘Integrated Care System’.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
The Southampton Centre for Research Engagement & Impact (SCREI), based at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, aims to ensure that our research engages effectively with those intended to benefit from, use or enable its outcomes, across public, NHS workforce, policy and industry groups. The centre’s activities promote an equitable, diverse and inclusive research culture within UHS and the wider Southampton clinical research partnership. It helps ensure this fully engages and involves public, patients, colleagues and users of research in driving research and research delivery that yields ever more benefit and impact.
Engaging Communities Research Centre, University of Winchester
The Engaging Communities Research Centre (ECRC) University of Winchester, based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Winchester, is the academic partner for Raising Voices in Research. The broad aim of the ECRC to conduct and apply psychological research that addresses real-world challenges facing individuals, groups, and communities. Our researchers have expertise in developing meaningful community involvement and engagement approaches, in social connectedness and participation, and improving individuals, groups and organisational wellbeing. Our work has been funded by a range of organisations, including NHS, UK National and Local Government, and commercial organisations. We have strong collaborative partnerships with communities, the voluntary and community sector, health organisations and structures, local government, and key stakeholders. As a result, our research is informed, owned, and used by our partners, feeding into collaborative research agendas, the development of interventions and solutions, and regional, national, and international policy agendas.
VCSE Organisations involved in RViR Projects
Across all phases of RViR, we have worked with over 30 VCSE organisations who support a wider range of communities. The groups engaged with RViR are:
- Age UK Portsmouth
- Autek CIC
- Basingstoke African Caribbean Catholic Association
- Basingstoke Hindu Society
- Bantaba4Change
- Breakout Youth
- Bridge to Unity
- Cross Culture Hub
- Disabled People’s Voice
- Drop the Mask CIC
- Fighting with Pride
- Level Up Gosport
- Men Only Isle of Wight
- Motiv8 South
- Mountbatten Hospice
- NVR South Parent Practitioners
- Nigerian Community in Hampshire
- Portsmouth City of Sanctuary
- Portsmouth Pride
- Recapture Life
- Safe & Sound Dorset
- Sight for Wight
- Solent Mind
- St Deny’s Activity Group
- Step by Step Partnership Ltd
- The Society of St James
- Vision 4 Youth
- Winchester GoLD
- Work Better Innovations
- Yellow Door
- Yellow Brick Road Projects