our services
We offer tailored community-led research and evaluation support to organisations, artists, and businesses looking to engage with communities. Our team of trained Community Researchers can support:
Audience Evaluation – Understand your audience’s preferences, needs, and feedback.
Community Interest Research – Identify pressing concerns, aspirations, and trends within different communities.
Market Research – Gather insights to refine your services, programmes, or products for targeted engagement.
Public Consultations – Facilitate focus groups and discussions to involve communities in decision-making and design.
why work with us?
A Trusted Network – Our community researchers are embedded in the communities
Tailored Approaches – We customise research and data gathering methodologies to fit your needs.
Affordable & Impact-Driven – Our services offer a cost-effective way to gain high-quality data and insights that help drive meaningful change.
let’s work together
Whether you’re a public body, organisation, artist, policymaker, or business, The Leap Community Research Lab can help you understand your audience and communities and make informed decisions.
community-led research in action
Dying Matters
A multi-year campaign using arts, lived‑experience leadership to support ethnic minority women facing grief, dying and bereavement to inform NHS service design.
Genomics
Support to the UK’s national genomics agenda by leading inclusive public engagement for policy on national genomics infrastructure.
Cultural Leadership
Research funded by Yorkshire Policy Innovation Partnership in partnership with York St Johns University. The research explores the characteristics and barriers faced by cultural leaders from underserved communities.
Beyond Hate
Beyond Hate convenes artists, cultural leaders, and activists to reflect on past work, strengthen collective learning, and inspire renewed action. The series aims to shape a more inclusive, resilient, and impactful future by building on previous efforts and deepening understanding of how communities can confront and move beyond hate together.
Community Based Health Spaces
Is a place‑based wellbeing model being co‑designed by The Leap and the NHS. It aims to bring health support into familiar community spaces, reduce access barriers, and create culturally attuned services shaped directly by local residents’ needs.
Healthy Minds in Green Spaces
A partnership with Bradford NHS to design and deliver a creative communications campaign connecting communities with mental heath support and green spaces.
why coMmunity-led resEarch mAtters
Traditional research approaches often overlook people outside formal networks, local insights and grassroots realities. The Leap's Community-Led Research Lab fills this gap by:
Ensuring policies, products, and services reflect real need
Collecting firsthand insights for actionable decision-making
Empowering communities to co-create lasting solutions
Embedding research skills within communities
↘ your organisation can leverage our community research expertise to:
→ Facilitate meaningful community consultation.
→ Develop community-centred policies.
→ Design better social impact programmes.
→ Strengthen Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiatives.
→ Improve service delivery with real, on-the-ground insights.
partNer with us tOday
Invest in Authentic Research. Support Community-Led Change.
Get in touch, email research-lab@the-leap.org.uk