Increasing Diversity of Inclusion within Co-production

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 and Leeds Older People ForumEach 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 emailingJennie Shrewsbury, Programme Lead - j.shrewsbury@syha.co.uk

The Good Practice Mentor Team

Exploring Ageing Better's approach to reaching and involving a range of voices, and sharing tips for increasing diversity of engagement.

Co-production: involving insight & community voice

Find out more about how to capture insight and voice through a ‘working with’ approach from the GPM team.

This session will explore how Ageing Better's approach to reaching, engaging and involving a diverse range of voices created a way of ensuring that co-production was fully representational of the services, projects and communities, that it is was intending to serve. We will draw from the grassroots experience of national partners such as Ageing Better in Birmingham who represented a super diverse city, and Ambition for Ageing in Greater Manchester who embedded a spatial approach to engaging marginalised communities to ensure that those who are very often under-represented were included.We will share tips for increasing engagement with a wide range of voices, learning from a tapestry of perspectives and spend some time exploring what worked well and why. You'll hear views from older people across a broad spectrum of needs to find out what helped them to engage, take part, and why it was of benefit to them.You are invited to bring along your views on this topic and any challenges that you would like some support with. There will be space for questions and also time to reflect on how our approach might be adapted to help you tap into the ideas and experiences of everyone who you'd like to involve.We hope to help you work out the best methods for you, so can put them in place to increase your own diversity of inclusion.It will be helpful to review and download the following learning guide from our Stronger Together Toolkit - <a href="https://www.syha.co.uk/toolkit/guides/7%20Increasing%20diversity%20of%20inclusion.pdf" title="https://www.syha.co.uk/toolkit/guides/7%20Increasing%20diversity%20of%20inclusion.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">7 Increasing diversity of inclusion.pdf</a>Here is where you will find a range of resources on this topic - <a href="https://www.syha.co.uk/co-production-toolkit/theme-09-diversity-and-inclusion/" title="https://www.syha.co.uk/co-production-toolkit/theme-09-diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Theme 09 - Diversity and inclusion - South Yorkshire Housing Association | SYHA</a>