BIG CONVERSATIONS STAGE
Double-disadvantage: developing community capacity and resilience in priority neighbourhoods

Building on the learning from almost 15 years of delivering the Big Local programme, Local Trust will lead a strategic interactive workshop on how local authorities can identify levels and types of community need at the neighbourhood level.

Hosted by Local Trust

ROUNDTABLE
How do you move to Community Power without falling foul of statutory and regulatory requirements?

It often feels risky moving to a community powered approach in areas subject to tight regulation. How can that risk be managed and how can community power actually deliver outcomes that help teams meet their statutory responsibilities?

Claire Kennedy,  Joint Chief Executive, PPL and Vice Chair, New Local
Ben Hughes, Head of Wellbeing and Public Health, Essex County Council
Shefali Kapoor, Director of Communities, Manchester City Council

WORKSHOP:
Strengths based conversations (an introduction)

Combining strengths-based approaches with community power can prove highly impactful and it all starts with a different type of conversation between public servant and citizen. So, what are the key features of a strengths-based conversation, what is current best practice and what are the ideal outcomes?

Hosted by Community Catalysts and Local Social

BIG CONVERSATIONS STAGE
How can community power provide better preventative care and reduce short term demand?

It’s gradually dawning on the public sector that the best way to address the problems of long waiting times and short-term demand is simply to provide better care. But how is this best done and how can it be made to work when short-term demand itself saps all resource and energy.

ROUNDTABLE
What is radical leadership in an era of community power?

Our models of leadership are increasingly out of date.They rarely take account of the very intense challenges of the current era and the need to work closely with communities. So, what does a new radical vision of leadership for this new world look like?

Katie Kelly, Chair, New Local
Alison MacKenzie-Folan, Chief Executive, Wigan Council
Kim Wright, Chief Executive, Brent Council

WORKSHOP
Unlocking and Practising Collective Imagination

Join JRF in exploring tools and strategies for developing our capacity to collectively learn, unlearn, imagine and begin to enact other possible just, equitable and regenerative futures for communities and wider systems.

Sepi Noohi and Hanna Thomas Uose will present JRF’s new Collective Imagination Toolkit, which has been developed as part of the Emerging Futures programme. Two of the tools from the toolkit will be collectively practiced, giving participants a sense of how they might explore and use the toolkit in different organisational contexts, including local and central government, institutions, place-based organisations, resource-holding families or organisations, and civil society organisations.

Hosted by JRF

BIG IDEAS STAGE
Who gets heard?

Communities can be labelled “hard to reach” when in reality they’re ignored. This session will explore how the public and voluntary sector can ensure that communities have meaningful opportunity to participate in and influence provision, so that everyone is heard loud and clear.

Becky Bainbridge, CEO, Reclaim
Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE, Trustee, Disability Rights UK, National Coproduction Advisory Group, Think Local, Act Personal
Rev Charles Kwaku-Odoi, Chief Executive, Caribbean & African Health Network
Ayesha Hakim Rahman, Acting Deputy Director of Strategy, Improvement & Transformation, Tower Hamlets and Founder, RISEilience

Chair: Shaheen Warren, Principal Practice Lead, New Local

BIG CONVERSATIONS STAGE
Building Belonging in Barking and Dagenham: Radical approaches to reducing social isolation

Building on the work being done in Barking and Dagenham, this session hosted by Care City CIC, Ageable CIC and BD Collective, will share how they reimagined a radically different experience for those experiencing loneliness.

Understand the set of tools and resources they’ve created to help teams co-design directly with people in an equal and collaborative way.

Hosted by Care City

ROUNDTABLE
The Double-running dilemma

What does the reality of a shift to community power look like within complex organisations?
It’s all very well wanting to shift towards a community powered approach but how can that be done in practice when the day-to-day pressures take up so much time and bandwidth?

Meena Kishinani, Board Member, New Local
Liz Cowie, Assistant Director, Strategy, Communications and Engagement, Barnet Council
Andy Ferrier, Chief Executive, Test Valley Council

WORKSHOP
A seat at the table: sharing ingredients for great places

Join community innovators from across the UK with Footwork for a masterclass in neighbourhood transformation. Together they will share stories and exchange ideas centred around ‘ingredients’ particular to each place and its people. Those in attendance will leave ‘bursting at the seams’ with new knowledge of locally-led change, and ready to take away and adapt recipes for their own work and local contexts.

Hosted by Footwork

BIG IDEAS STAGE
Community power in an age of division

These days it seems like even the most well-meaning idea can be turned into a source of polarisation and anger. How can deliberative and consensus-building approaches be used to take the heat out of public discourse.

Samuel Augustine, Programmes Development and Communications Officer, Shared Future
Stephanie Draper, Director of Innovation and Practice, Involve
Cllr Eve Holt, Strategic Director, GM Moving and
Councillor, Manchester City Council
Misbah Malik, Senior Policy and Engagement Officer, Hope not Hate
Chair: Catriona Maclay, Principal Practice Lead, New Local

BIG CONVERSATIONS STAGE
The Data Café

Data can inform and even mobilise communities but it can also confuse and alienate. How can data be collated and presented in a way that empowers communities to collaborate with public services for positive impact?

A choose-your-own adventure session with speakers from Open Data Manchester and OCSI.

ROUNDTABLE
Learning, measurement and evaluation to make the case for community power

“Where’s the evidence it will work”: a cry heard regularly by those trying to persuade colleagues to shift to community power. So, what is the evidence and how can you generate your own evidence to persuade others to come on board?

Robert Pollock, Chief Executive, Cambridge Council, Board Member, New Local
Charles Barlow, Head of Community Partnerships,
Warwickshire council
Eleanor Carter, Research Director, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

How can we shift #CouncilCulture so that local governments work with citizens to make places better?

Many change-makers in councils want to involve more citizens in shaping places, but often run up against ingrained internal cultural barriers. This workshop will explore new tools for making cultural interventions that shift the story towards new possibilities for citizen-powered government.

Exploring Systems Leadership – changing the narrative to ‘troubled system’

People facing multiple disadvantage experience a combination of problems including homelessness, substance misuse, contact with the criminal justice system and mental ill health. They fall through the gaps between services and systems, making it harder for them to address their problems and lead fulfilling lives. MEAM’s vision is for “everyone experiencing multiple disadvantage to reach their potential and contribute fully to their communities”.

To this end, Carl and Gav will take you on a journey into systems leadership and practice, exploring what it looks like, what it feels like, and how they apply it to multiple disadvantage and their work. You will experience what it is like to be in a system and how complexity is produced. They’ll wrap up with introducing an accessible model for systems practice.

Double-disadvantage: developing community capacity and resilience in priority neighbourhoods

Building on the learning from almost 15 years of delivering the Big Local programme, Local Trust will lead a strategic interactive workshop on how local authorities can identify levels and types of community need at the neighbourhood level.

Hosted by Local Trust

Community power in age of division

These days it seems like even the most well-meaning idea can be turned into a source of polarisation and anger. How can deliberative and consensus-building approaches be used to take the heat out of public discourse.

Samuel Augustine, Programme Development and
Communications Officer, Shared Futures
Stephanie Draper, Director of Innovation and Practice, Involve
Cllr Eve Holt, Strategic Director, GM Moving and
Councillor, Manchester City Council
Misbah Malik, Senior Policy and Engagement Officer, Hope not Hate
Chair: Catriona Maclay, Principal Practice Lead, New Local