Collates knowledge and examines the role and nature of community groups and activities operating outside of the formal voluntary sector in the UK to develop a coherent understanding about these so-called "below the radar" organisations.

Professor Jenny Phillimore is Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity. During her five years at the Third Sector Research Centre her interests included small scale community action, refugee and migrant communities and community engagement
Angus McCabe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham. He has a background in community development practice in urban and rural settings in the UK

Introduction: Why get below the radar? The importance of understanding community groups and activities ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore
Part One: Scoping and mapping community actions and activities
Below the radar? Community groups and activities in context ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore
Getting below the radar: micro-mapping 'hidden' community activity ~ Andri Soteri-Proctor
Part Two: Community groups and activities in context
Are we different? Claims for distinctiveness in voluntary and community action ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore
Community as policy: reflections on community engagement, empowerment and social action in a changing policy context ~ Angus McCabe
Lost to austerity, lost in austerity: rethinking the community sector in Ireland ~ Niall Crowley
All change? Surviving below the radar: community groups and activities in hard times ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore
Part Three: Under-explored radars
The UK Gypsy, Traveller and Roma third sector: a Gypsy industry or route to empowerment? ~ Andrew Ryder and Sarah Cemlyn
Understanding grassroots arts groups and practices in communities ~ Hilary Ramsden, Jane Milling and Robin Simpson
Is there a black and minority ethnic third sector in the UK? ~ Lucy Mayblin
'More than a refugee community organisation': a study of African migrant associations in Glasgow ~ Teresa Piacentini
Part Four: Thinking about voice, learning and emotion below the radar
'Almost a whisper': black and minority ethnic community groups' voice and influence ~ Phil Ware
Learning to sustain social action ~ Jenny Phillimore and Angus McCabe
Authentic and legitimate? The emotional role of 'grassroots' community activists in policymaking ~ Rosie Anderson
Conclusion: thinking back and looking forward ~ Angus McCabe and Jenny Phillimore