Community Engagement Planning – Putting Theory into Practice

£120.00

GCVS, 348 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8LX

• Do you want to involve your service users, staff, or volunteers in decision making?   
• Do you want to tap into lived experience to improve your services?   
• Do you want to plan your community engagement ideas alongside experienced practitioners? 

This session is…

An interactive workshop designed to help you explore frameworks for planning engagement and apply them to your work. We will look at approaches to ensure that engagement activities meet the National Standards for Community Engagement, and build on this using Service Design approaches to help us navigate more complex cases. 

This session isn’t…

A presentation of the basic concepts of community engagement, or a case for engaging with your community. It is not a lecture-style session, and you will be required to participate.  

In the context of this session, “community engagement” is used to refer to opportunities to involve those with lived experience in decision making, to inform our activities and services. The lived experience can be that of existing service users, staff, volunteers, or the wider community. This session is not about awareness raising or increasing attendance at events. 

What to prepare

To participate in this session, please come prepared with some ideas or examples of where you are looking to carry out engagement in your work.  

Event details

This training session will start at 10am and finish at 1pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

Venue: GCVS, 348 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8LX

What are past participants saying?

“I liked being in person, very welcoming and open staff gave really good feedback and helpful to chat with them and other participants”

“Very good slides! Really broke down things clearly and the chatting through them was engaging and useful.”

Who is it for? 

This session will be helpful for anyone who is involved in planning or delivering community engagement activities, or is interested in how to embed lived experience in their decision making.  

Funded places are available for No Wrong Door partners, and organisations registered for our funded support.

If your organisation doesn’t currently meet the above criteria, you can learn more and sign up below.

If you have any questions or would like to find out more about this training, please email: policy.engagement@gcvs.org.uk.

You can also read more about the support we can offer with Engagement and Design here.

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How to Sign Up

Funded Support is free for organisations that operate in the Glasgow city area.
Already got a Funded Support account? Please log in below, then sign up for your free place.
Is your organisation already registered? Ask the person who registered it to add you.
If not, register your organisation for Funded Support here.

GCVS Member: Not in Glasgow, but a GCVS member? Discounts available. Please log in, then sign up.

Standard Ticket: You are very welcome!

If you are a Third Sector member of No Wrong Door, we encourage you to consider signing up for our funded support. This provides free and easy access to training, guidance and advice via our website. If you do not wish to register for funded support, or are an NWD member outwith the Third Sector, please email policy.engagement@gcvs.org.uk to book your place. 

To book, click to “Sign up” below and go to the checkout page to complete your registration.

Do you have any access or learning needs?
Please let us if you have any accessibility requirements we can help with. When completing your registration in the checkout page, please let us know your needs and, where possible and with sufficient notice, we will do our best to accommodate them.