This volunteering opportunity involves supporting a qualitative research project for the Community Association in West Hampstead (CAWH), a neighbourhood-based charity delivering wellbeing and educational programmes for primarily older adults (50+) and children through extracurricular and holiday activities.
The aim of this project is to assess adult service users’ experiences and preferences, in order to inform future planning and help CAWH demonstrate their community-centred approach to funders.
Volunteers will contribute to two phases:
- Development of a short feedback form digitally and in paper to collect comments from community visitors after sessions.
- Planning, conducting, and analysing 3–4 focus groups to gather in-depth insights into user satisfaction, needs, and future activity preferences.
- Attend meetings with CAWH staff and trustees to co-develop feedback forms and focus group materials
- Design and refine a user-friendly feedback form
- Create a topic guide for focus groups in collaboration with CAWH
- Conduct 3–4 focus groups (5–10 participants each), either on-site or online
- Analyse qualitative data from the focus groups
4-6 volunteers total:
- 2 volunteers for feedback design
- 2-4 volunteers to conduct and analyse focus groups
Time commitment
● Approx. 4 x 1–1.5 hour focus groups (on-site)
● Meetings with CAWH staff and trustees or chair of trustees (estimated 4-5 meetings)
● Preparation of materials and analysis, to be completed by Autumn 2025