Over several years the Born in Bradford programme has worked with communities across Bradford District where diverse populations have provided tremendous support to our research efforts. This has helped us build a solid evidence base, helping to improve the health and wellbeing of the District. Working together on so many research projects has boosted confidence and trust in research, giving rise to an interest amongst community organisations to join us as equal partners in producing and delivering research. The Coproduction and Peer Research (CoPPeR) network aims to establish a sustainable model to enable seldom-heard communities, researchers and policy makers to work together. Intended outcomes include co-producing community led peer-research projects on community priorities to improve health and wellbeing, exploring barriers and enablers to co-production and peer-research with seldom heard communities and exploring the readiness of research and statutory organisations to embed the CoPPeR network in their activities.