As the name suggests, community interpreting is when an interpreting service is used within a community. This will enable those who are not able to speak English fluently, to still be able to access services that they need, without the language barrier causing an issue during communication.
Community interpreting is commonly used to denote interpreting for public services which do not include legal (medical, social services, welfare, local government etc). Typically these primarily use Consecutive interpreting and the more complex and difficult simultaneous interpreting mode is not utilised.