Community engagement and participation in decision-making spaces feature heavily in a number of regional and national strategies. Conversations have shifted from doing to to doing with communities, and questions have moved from What’s the matter with you? to What matters to you? But what does this mean and look like in practice? Is there an art to good engagement and what is its ultimate aim? How do you speak with communities who are “consulted-out”? Can we shift the dial from community engagement to community leadership and what system enablers would need to be in place for that to happen?
Join us as we unpick approaches (and pitfalls!), explore what’s happening in this space across Greater Manchester and share examples of good practice. Kat Pursall from 10GM will start us off with the first virtual workshop on 13 May, 2-3:30pm: An introduction on how *not* to pursue community engagement (despite best intentions).