Intercom Resources and Reports

We continue to add resources to this page as time allows.

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Key documents

  • Terminology used within this website: go to our Terminology page.
  • Constitution and Policy documents: go to our Policies page.
  • Annual Reports and Accounts: go to our Annual Reports page.

The Extended Neighbourhood: PDF version (757 Kb).

In January 2007, after extensive community consultation, we published an LGBT Community Strategy called The Extended Neighbourhood. We tried to make this a comprehensive analysis and summary of community needs within the peninsula, and we have found (2011) that it has been widely used by policy makers and strategic planners both in the SW peninsula and elsewhere in the UK.

We do not have a stock of printed copies, so please download it from here.

 

Infrastructure Service and Research Documents

Community Resources Project : Final Report (June 2004)

This is the final report of our project to identify and get in touch with as many as possible of the independent LGB and Trans community groups and projects in the peninsula. There are now many more such independent groups and projects known to us, but the 2004 report is still of interest as a snapshot of broad-spectrum community needs at the time. Many current needs are still (2011) the same.

Community Conference Report, 2005 ("Right Royal Get-Together")

This is the report of the big networking conference we hosted for the independent LGBT community groups and projects in September 2005. Workshops and plenary sessions identified over forty action-points for Intercom, for the LGBT sector, and for service-providers. The conference was funded by Change Up.

A Firmer Foundation (September 2006) (PDF version, 1072 Kb)

A Firmer Foundation was published in September 2006. It is the report of the results of a big community survey we conducted in the peninsula covering both rural and urban LGBT residents. The responses were professionally analysed by an independent consultant demographer, Dr Wilson Wong, who co-wrote the report. In many respects social change has been far slower than legislative change over the last five years, so A Firmer Foundation is still (2011) a uniquely valuable survey of issues that affect LGB and T people in the South West peninsula.

Community Conference Report, 2008 ("LGBT08: Let's Get back Together")

This is the report of the second big residential conference we hosted for the independent LGBT community groups and projects in September 2008.

Feasibility study: young LGBT people in South & West Devon, 2008

A report commissioned by the local public sector into the needs of young LGBTQ people in rural South and West Devon, focusing on assessing the need for a local LGBTQ youth group.

Community Conference Report, 2009 ("LGBT09")

This is the report of the third big residential conference we hosted for the independent LGBT community groups and projects in September 2009.

External Evaluation Survey Report, 2009

This is the report produced for us by an independent consultant, Sam Magne, who in 2009 was able to survey almost all the frontline groups that use Intercom's infrastructure services.

Community Conference Evaluation, 2010

This is a report of the frontline groups' own evaluation of the quality and social value of Intercom's infrastructure work over the three BASIS-funded years, 2007-10. The evaluation was conducted the fourth of our big residential conferences for the independent LGBT community groups and projects, held in September 2010.

 

Topical Guidelines for Good Practice

We are developing short position papers for our stakeholders and partner agencies on how to include---or how not to exclude---LGBT people from their activities. To have a look at where we've got to at present, go to our Topical Guidelines page.

 

Information and help resources

Goods and Services Regulations: Seminar Handouts, May 2007 (PDF)

 

Help for young people, families and schools

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