How to Engage Everyone in Your Community Summit Agenda 2024

6 great ways to engage your community in playground design
Tim Bird, Proludic

The session will elaborate on Proludic’s commitment to forming a partnership with you, aiming to assist and guide you at each stage of bringing a play and sports project to life. Our intention is to share valuable insights to engage your community about a play or sports project on on-site promotion/drop-in events, online promotion through social media, leveraging the power of video, constructing a mood board using elements from our catalogue, engaging in the creative process through drawings, and building your own playground – all from a consumer perspective. Additionally, we will emphasise the importance of showcasing the final designs to actively involve stakeholders and the community, ensuring a comprehensive engagement throughout the entire project development process.

Attracting and Retaining Volunteers
Helen Tourle

In this one hour session you’ll hear from Helen Tourle, Senior Consultant for Volunteering from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), about how to support a positive volunteer experience, from recruitment of new volunteers and throughout a volunteer lifecycle. You’ll learn what recent research tells us that volunteers are looking for, and receive some top tips for how to apply this in your activities and programmes.

Playgrounds – from unused eyesores to the heart of the community – why getting it right benefits everyone
Amanda Gummer

In this session, Dr Amanda Gummer reviews what makes a great community play asset and how all generations benefit from being involved in its development. With practical techniques on effective stakeholder consultations, including how to listen to the views of children, Amanda discusses how to create a truly inclusive community resource that pays dividends in terms of health, social, environmental and educational benefits for the local population.

Three ways to get fighting-fit to work better with your principal authority
Ian Morris FSLCC, Clerk to Peterlee Town Council

Industry experts have recognised that leaders who want to work more collaboratively with internal and external partners need to get ‘collaboration fit’.  Ian will use a combination of ideas from academia and his own lived experiences to highlight three things that you can do to get yourself fighting-fit to be more successful in collaborating with key people in your principal authority.

Engaging with Young People
Helen Ball FSLCC, Shrewsbury Town Council

Helen Ball FSLCC, Town Clerk Shrewsbury Town Council explores the challenges faced by young people and suggests different ways a Parish Council might work with them to maximise engagement.