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••• Maggie O’Neill •••

5 Funded by Walsall South HAZ, we developed consultation research on prostitution in the
West Midlands. Seedfunding was included in the tender bid for arts-based consultation and
inclusion of residents and more marginalized groups. The community arts team (represented
on the steering group for the research) raised funding to enable the arts aspect of the
research to be developed. Thanks go to Mark Webster,Walsall Community Arts, for follow-
ing this up and being such a staunch supporter of the work and to Walsall Youth Arts and
Kate Green. See www.safetysoapbox.com
6 A small group of community co-researchers (local residents) came forward to work on the
project and were trained in focus groups methods and participated in the ethnographic work
too; a larger group acted as a steering group (agency representatives, including police, health
authority, social services, local councillors, sex work projects and various voluntary and
statutory support agencies).
7 PA has its roots in social and cultural movements that aim to create opportunities for peo-
ple to have access to the means to participate in the processes that generate culture.
Sometimes described through the concept of cultural democracy, it is a fundamental princi-
ple governing community arts and local authority cultural strategies. PA provides a unique
way of consulting people especially marginalized, hard-to-reach groups, it is non-threaten-
ing, non-hierarchical and results are presented in a way which reflects the richness of opin-
ions and ideas (see Webster, 1997).

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