The Coastal Card is a great incentive to make use of one of the council-owned leisure centres in the former Suffolk Coastal area, and will quickly save regular users pounds.
Read more about "Coastal Card"...People in the community are given disposable cameras, or asked to take pictures on their phones and upload them to a shared location. The idea is to record and represent their community through photography. This approach works really well with people who prefer pictures to written or spoken information.
Read more about "Photo Survey [C]"...Patch walks can increase understanding of the physical, economic, cultural and social aspects of a community. Walking through a community with local community members as ‘guides’ is a unique way to understand different dimensions of community life.
Read more about "Patch Walk [C/S]"...Planning For Real gives a large number of people a voice in decisions affecting their neighbourhood/community. The key piece of equipment in Planning For Real is a three-dimensional model of the chosen area (a town, village or neighbourhood) on which problems and potential improvements are identified through the placement of cards.
Read more about "Planning For Real [S/E]"...A ‘Who Knows Who’ Map captures the (economic, social and cultural) relationships between individuals, groups or clubs within a community to be mapped.
Read more about "Who Knows Who Map [C]"...Open Space Workshops are based on the idea that people will step forward to lead conversations about issues they really care about. Participants set the agenda, decide the length of the event (generally between one to three days) and the outcomes. Four principles apply:
Read more about "Open Space Workshops [S]"...The aim of a World café is to create a discussion environment that feels like a café. World café can be conducted online or in a public space and is suitable for large groups of people (it has been done with groups of over 1,200 people) from a range of backgrounds. It provides an opportunity for people to share information and insights into complex issues.
Read more about "World Cafe [C/S/E]"...Community visioning participants closing their eyes and imagining what their community could look like in the future. A skilled facilitator leads participants in creating their vision by using a script which helps them to mentally map out/imagine the community featured and identify what makes it different to now.
Read more about "Community Visioning [S/E]"...An Ideas Wall focuses a group on generating and prioritising ideas/options.
Read more about "Ideas Wall [S]"...Objectives Matrix is a simplified version of something called Theory of Change.
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