VIRQUAL has fulfilled all activities and tasks that the consortium announced for 2011. The partners of VIRQUAL feel very proud for all the achievements and the high interest received from the audience. Although the attached newsletter is the last produced by the project, we nevertheless hope you enjoy it and distribute it amongst your colleagues.

Millions of people in the UK live in outer city estates where levels of poverty are high and job opportunities scarce. This series of articles, published in the now defunct regeneration magazine, New Start, sets the social and economic context and proposes ways of improving the  prospects of residents and their communities, drawing on examples of effective practice from the UK and further afield.

The series was edited by regeneration consultants Martin Yarnit and Jane Foot.