What changes can offer
Our most recent work has been around illustrating the value of community engagement – working with a registered Social Landlord to develop a framework which illustrates the value to tenants and residents and the value to the business of their neighbourhood work. This has some cross-over with an SROI (Social Return on Investment) study but is something that, ultimately the organisation can undertake themselves – as frequently – or not – as suits their purpose. This was developed as a piece of consultancy, we can – of course – do other things:
- Training
- clarifying the purpose and process of engagement activities, issues and solutions around engagement and skills to engage
- Facilitation
- action research sessions around ‘developing empowering approaches to engagement’
- workshops with cross sectoral partners to identify common understandings of community engagement and ‘empowering engagement’
- Consultancy
- support to develop a strategy for engaging with communities
- advice on community engagement toolkits
- developing appropriate guidelines for community engagement
- supporting agencies and partnerships to work with a community engagement ‘journey planner’
- Evaluation – of community engagement projects