Bang Peer Research
Turn lived experience into evidence for better decisionsBANG X COMMUNITY REGEN
BANG Peer Research is delivered through BANG X Community Regen. Young people help shape the questions, carry out the research, make sense of what they hear, and present findings that can inform services, strategy, and investment.
The Need
Decisions about communities are stronger when they are informed by credible evidence and lived experience.
Traditional consultation can miss people who are least connected to formal services or reduce participation to a one-off survey.
The Offer
BANG Peer Research brings together BANG’s trusted relationships with young people and Community Regen’s experience in research and regeneration. We recruit, train, manage and pay young people to help design the research, speak to their peers, understand the findings, and present recommendations.
How It Works
- BANG Peer Research projects
- Community insight and needs assessment
- Consultation and engagement
- Service-design insight
- Evaluation and learning
- Findings, recommendations and presentations for decision-makers
Evidence
In 2025, BANG interns helped design and deliver BANG’s largest peer research project, reaching more than 1,000 young people across over 20 Brent postcode areas. BANG interns helped shape the survey, reach young people through schools and community networks, review the findings, and present what they had learned.
A Stakeholder Event Organised by Young People
Young people organised and hosted the BANG Stakeholder Event in November 2025. Around 60 young people, families, partners, funders and community stakeholders attended. Young people presented the findings, led activities and conversations, and showed how the research should shape BANG’s programmes, partnerships and next steps.
BANG X Community Regen
BANG Peer Research is delivered through BANG X Community Regen. BANG brings long-standing relationships with young people and communities and a track record of developing young people through real responsibility. Community Regen brings many years of peer and community research, engagement and regeneration work. Together, we can manage the whole process, from designing the research and recruiting the team to fieldwork, analysis, reporting, and presentation.
Paul Bragman is Chair of BANG and Director of Community Regen. He has worked with BANG since 2000, initially supporting the development of Life FM as a consultant on strategy and business development. Over the years he has continued to support BANG with business planning, strategic development and evaluation, and he became BANG’s Chair in 2018.
Partner: Visit Community Regen
Services: Community Research & Engagement
Examples: Community Regen Projects
Youth Voice: Community Regen Youth Voice
About: Paul Bragman and the Community Regen team
LinkedIn: Paul Bragman
For Community Regeneration & Public Services
BANG Peer Research is delivered through BANG X Community Regen. BANG brings long-standing relationships with young people and communities and a track record of developing young people through real responsibility. Community Regen brings many years of peer and community research, engagement and regeneration work. Together, we can manage the whole process, from designing the research and recruiting the team to fieldwork, analysis, reporting, and presentation.
Why BANG Peer Research
BANG Peer Research combines BANG’s 27 years of work with young people and communities with Community Regen’s peer-research and regeneration experience. Young people are trained, supported, and paid as researchers, not treated only as respondents.
