Capturing community insight through informal engagement methods

Capturing community insight through informal engagement methods

An introduction to different forms of informal engagement approaches to support you to engage and hear from the people in your communities.

By The Good Practice Mentor Team

Date and time

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes

This session will introduce the idea of using different, informal approaches as ‘steppingstones’ towards further engagement, and demonstrate some of the options you can explore in more depth, such as pop-up events, street outreach and door knocking, with further support from the Good Practice Mentor team.

We’ll explore how to use informal conversational strategies to provide a ‘nudge’ towards engagement, promote your opportunities, and capture informal insight from the people in your local community.

We’ll share some examples of how outreach friendly comms can be used a tool to address barriers to engagement and communicate your message to the people ‘not looking’ for you, and have a go at writing our own.

Finally, we’ll create a map of local, informal assets and identify how these can be used as part of an effective engagement approach.

Organized by

The Good Practice Mentor Team

The Good Practice Mentor (GPM) programme is a new and innovative project that brings together legacy, learning and resources from Ageing Better, a seven year Test & Learn project that worked to reduce social isolation and loneliness in people aged over 50, and engaged more than 150,000 people in over 366 projects.

The GPM team includes; South Yorkshire Housing Association Age UK Camden Leeds Older People Forum Torbay Community Development Trust

Each partner brings a unique set of learning and skills to the project, and together we offer a wide range of training, bespoke support for your organisation and toolkits and resources to help you on your journey to reducing loneliness and isolation.

Find out more about the Good Practice Mentor programme and the range of support on offer by emailing Jennie Shrewsbury, Programme Lead - j.shrewsbury@syha.co.uk

FreeJul 9 · 2:00 AM PDT