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<\/a>Example 1:<\/strong> Living in Collydean, Auchmuty and Glenrothes\nOn behalf of Fife Council we conducted a wide-ranging
\ncommunity consultation exercise to understand local
\npeople\u2019s experiences of living in 3 localities. This gathered the views from a wide cross-section of residents (age, gender, spatial). Our team trained, equipped and supported local people to conduct the research for themselves, for example Youth Workers (who carried out the survey door to door) and pupil council representatives from the local primary and secondary schools (who surveyed their parents, siblings friends and known neighbours). Community conferences were organised to reach out to and feedback findings to the local population.<\/p>\n
Since 1995 our team have been developing processes and using methods which enable people of all ages and backgrounds to record knowledge, aspirations, opinions and priorities, and give a voice to those who don’t normally fill in questionnaires or speak … Continue reading <\/a>Example 2:<\/strong> Community Safety in Templehall
\nWe trained local young people to carry out a large survey and run community events regarding the future of Templehall for Fife Community Safety Partnership\u2019s Safer Neighbourhoods Team. It was clear that success in Templehall depended on effectively engaging with relevant local agencies and the local community. Partner agencies had to think creatively about the way in which they operate, share information and engage with the local community. This has led to sizeable reductions in antisocial behaviour problems in the Templehall area and major improvements in public perceptions of the area.<\/p>\n<\/a>Example 3:<\/strong> Living in Lennoxtown
\nOur team led a Participatory Appraisal survey process for East Dunbartonshire Council and Lennoxtown Initiative inand around the Lennoxtown area.\u00a0 The appraisal asked people what they thought about living in the area and their ideas for the future.\u00a0 Seven local people were recruited and trained to be participatory appraisal facilitators.\u00a0 They met and engaged with 310 people living in and around the Lennoxtown area over three days. The project outcome\u00a0 has been an agreed on-going investment programme with the Council to regenerate the local environment. This project was one of the Scottish Community Action Research Fund\u2019s most successful examples of participatory action research projects.<\/p>\n<\/a>Example 4:<\/strong> Community Planning in Inverness & Nairn
\nFor Highland Council and The Partnership for Rural
\nInverness & Nairn we designed and delivered training for local people to carry out Participatory Community
\nAppraisals and Action Plans. We employed and trained
\nlocal people to survey all ages in several localities. The
\nmain aim of the survey was to ask people who would not
\nnormally attend public meetings or fill in questionnaires
\nwhat they thought of their local area and to have these views recorded. A total of 1 in 6 households in each partnership area were involved.\u00a0 This work was pivotal in the \u2018roll out\u2019 of Community Planning arrangements.<\/p>\n<\/a>Example 5:<\/strong> Brownsburn and Gartlea
\nWe led a community research and public consultation
\nprocess for North Lanarkshire Council that was carried
\nout in the Brownsburn and Gartlea areas with local
\npeople and representatives from Community Services
\nand Planning and Environment departments in
\npartnership with the Central Scotland Forest Trust
\n(CSFT) and Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire (SEL).\u00a0 The
\naim of this public consultation was to get an understanding of what people living around the area thought about it and to start the process of developing plans for improving the area for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"