Connecting Community Insights to Policy
Connecting Community Insights to Policy, Toynbee Hall, 1pm-5pm
Join us at Toynbee Hall if you would like to engage with communities in more creative ways or learn about new ideas and approaches to embed community voice in your policies and programmes.
There will be opportunities to learn from those already delivering successful and impactful creative community engagement and peer research, and information about the support that is available to you from the GLA and other organisations. This includes the exciting launch of a new toolkit for GLA policymakers on how to commission peer research. Co-designed with a steering group of GLA officers, this toolkit will serve as a centralised hub of practical guidance and resources, ensuring that policymakers have the support they need to effectively commission peer research, whilst fostering meaningful community engagement.
We will hear from some of the first contributors to the GLA’s Community Insights Hub, who have been using creative methodologies such as film, photography, zine making and video-game principles to engage with communities and deliver impactful engagement projects.
There will also be an energising and practical workshop led by Neighbourly Labs, focused on participatory policy making and unpacking some of the challenges that we face when trying to carry out engagement work.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.