ABMA Education Ltd · RQF Level 6
ABMA Level 6 Diploma in Community Development (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits125
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification7
Awarded by ABMA Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units ABMA Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Community and Inter-Agency WorkingReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the changing character of inter-agency working
- Understand the impact of inter-agency working on professionals working in different sectors
- Understand the problems encountered through collabourative work between different sectors
- Understand the conflicts and tensions that can arise through inter-agency working
- Understand the opportunities for learning new ways of working across sectors
Comparative Policy and Social Movements in Community DevelopmentReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key relationships and influences on policy in developed and developing countries
- Understand the factors that are involved in the development of policy initiatives
- Understand different models of social change
- Understand comparative policies on welfare of different countries
- Understand the different forms of networks and movements within international community development
Intercultural Dialogue and Community EngagementReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories and philosophies of intercultural dialogue and community engagement
- Understand community engagement values and developments
- Understand the barriers and challenges involved in community engagement work
- Understand the conflicts and tensions that exist for individuals within different communities
- Understand the relationship between Human Rights, international legislation and foreign policy
Reflective Practice in Community DevelopmentReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of reflective practice within continued professional development
- Understand the nature of reflective practice
- Understand various methods used to enable reflective practice
- Understand the cultural contexts of community development that influence professional practice
- Understand the potential of reflective practice to improve professional practice
Social Research Processes and PlanningReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand approaches to social research in the context of community development
- Understand different research methodologies
- Understand how to plan community development research
- Understand the requirements for researching a community development issue
Social Theory of Community DevelopmentReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different frameworks and theories of ‘community’
- Understand different approaches to the idea of communities as social constructs
- Understand how economic and technological change can affect different communities
- Understand the nature of the relationship between government and communities
- Understand the relationships between people involved in community development activities
Social and Community EnterpriseReal unit · ABMA Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of social and community enterprises
- Understand the challenges and influences of managing social and community enterprises
- Understand sources of funding, support and regulation for social and community enterprises
- Understand the role of marketing in promoting social and community enterprises
- Understand the social and economic factors that affect the business success of social and community enterprises
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Develop and Undertake Inter-Agency Cross-Sector Working
- Develop and Undertake Inter-Agency, Cross-Sector Working
- Develop yourself as a community development practitioner
- Monitor, Evaluate and Improve Inter-Agency Services
- Relate to Different Communities
- Work with a board in a social enterprise
Where this can lead
Senior Community Investment Specialist
Your journey in community investment can be incredibly rewarding, offering a chance to grow both professionally and personally while making a genuine difference in the world. We're here to support that journey, wherever it takes you.
See the whole journey →Showing 3 roles, drawn from 4 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABMA Level 6 Diploma in Community Development (QCF)
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ABMA Education Ltd.
- Community and Inter-Agency Working
- Comparative Policy and Social Movements in Community Development
- Intercultural Dialogue and Community Engagement
- Reflective Practice in Community Development
- Social Research Processes and Planning
- Social Theory of Community Development
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.