In the last 20 years it became a leading organisation in civil society development in Hungary, having intensive connection and network with several hundreds of civil society organisations and local communities across Hungary and with outreach to and collaboration with many European and some U.S. partners.
CCF is involved in the activities of several working structures in order to represent the case of citizen and community participation in the decision-making processes both on the national and international level.
Due to a number of other preliminaries, in 2010 CCF started to seriously engage in Community Organising and it has developed a Community Organising training and consultation system that is tailored to the Hungarian conditions. Through various programmes CCF has managed to mobilise a wide range of citizens whose interests have been infringed upon (Roma interest enforcement groups, LGBTQI groups, groups organizing homeless people and people with disabilities, disadvantaged youth and tenants’ groups). CCF is now providing complex professional and financial support for 15–27 paid organisers all over Hungary.
CCF has a residential Training Centre 75 KMs from Budapest where yearly about 5–700 volunteers/community activists are trained (for free or first cost), plus provides 2–3 state-wide development workshops, vocational trainings, 2–4 national/international seminars, professional programmes and projects, exchanges, conferences and workshops. For 10 years CCF has been lead-organizer of the Citizen Participation Week (CPW) in Hungary, involving around 30.000 citizens every year.
CCF is currently working with a staff of 10 employees and a local social cooperative is managing its training centre. The headquarters are in Budapest.
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