How would you spend £20 million in your area?
Have your say in different ways:
- Fill in our short survey with your ideas
- Sign up to attend an online information session for Pendleton or Brookhouse and Peel Green
- Attend community events and engagement activities this summer - details coming soon
- Join our mailing list by messaging emma.eastwood@salfordcvs.co.uk
Join the team!
Job Title: Pride in Place Community Researcher
(8 posts available - applications reviewed on receipt)
Grade: £13.45 per hour, plus travel expenses and a contribution towards phone / internet costs
Hours: 8 guaranteed hours per week, part-time (excluding breaks), worked to a pattern agreed in advance with the Programme Manager (Place)
Contract: 8-week fixed term, from Monday 5th October to Monday 30th November 2026, and attend the online induction session on Monday 5th October 2026.
Responsible to: Programme Manager (Place)
Place of work: Community-based in Brookhouse and Peel Green or Pendleton
Main purposes of the post
To conduct community-based research in Brookhouse and Peel Green or Pendleton as part of the Pride in Place engagement plan.
Specific duties:
- Support community members to complete surveys about Pride in Place
- Carry out community research and outreach in local venues and neighbourhoods
- Speak with residents and community members, including through door knocking, events and public consultations
- Gather feedback from households and local groups in Brookhouse and Peel Green or Pendleton
- Record and report findings to the Programme Manager (Place)
How the money can be spent
Money can be spent on:
- Improvements to shop fronts, restoring spaces and empty units.
- Workshops supporting local people e.g. employability, community schemes.
- Capacity building in the community e.g. participatory budgeting, volunteering, community ownership, services.
- Physical changes or additions to public, community, and green spaces to improve safety and appearance.
- Improvements to shop fronts, restoring spaces and empty units.
Money can not be spent on:
- Party-political, campaigning or lobbying activity.
- Anything that only benefits a private individual or business commercially, with no wider public benefit.
- Spend that duplicates or replaces another body's statutory duty (schools, policing, NHS, statutory council services e.g. potholes).
- Retrospective costs - things already bought or paid for before approval.
- Activity or assets outside our designated Pride in Place neighbourhood.