Tag: Community engagement

Kirsty Wilkinson from Durham County Council explores the journey the County Durham Together Partnership has been on

27th August, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Partnerships

Across local government, there is growing interest in working at the neighbourhood scale as a way of delivering more relational, preventative and community-powered public services. In recent months, we’ve been […]

24th August, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Neighbourhood Working • Neighbourhoods • Neighbourhoods in Practice

29th July, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Neighbourhood Working • Neighbourhoods in Practice • Public Services

In this guest blog, Malvern Hills District Council shares how a growing network of local venues is helping shift wellbeing support from a distant, reactive service into something rooted in […]

14th July, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Neighbourhood Health

Effecting real change takes long term work and investment. Pride in Place, has been developed to do just that in some of the UK’s most deprived neighbourhoods. Whilst neighbourhood boards will […]

13th July, 2026

Community engagement • Place shaping • Pride in Place

Embracing a ‘doing with’ rather than a ‘doing to’ approach to working with communities is the aspiration for many forward thinking councils. Achieving this work is complex and needs all […]

29th June, 2026

Community engagement • Partnerships • Place shaping

This article was first published in the LGC on 9 June 2026 and previews themes from Sir David Robinson’s keynote address at Stronger Things 2026. As local government grapples with rising […]

11th June, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government • Public Services

Noel Hatch from Adur and Worthing Councils discussing their work around rebuilding trust and connection within their communities.

12th May, 2026

Community Cohesion • Community engagement • Community Power

21st Century Councillor research from Professor Catherine Mangan

23rd April, 2026

Community engagement • Councillors • Local government

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored focuses on how deliberation can help communities articulate a shared story of who they are and where they want to go, building stronger cohesion along the way

14th April, 2026

Community engagement • Deliberation

Our latest podcast looks at an ambitious, community-powered programme to tackle health inequalities and improve population health in North East Sheffield. The North East Neighbourhoods programme was set up by […]

30th March, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Participatory Budgeting • Place-Based Public Service Reform

Hearing about the strengthening solidarity and cohesion in Adur and Worthing Councils

27th March, 2026

Community Cohesion • Community engagement

Embracing a ‘doing with’ rather than a ‘doing to’ approach to working with communities is the aspiration for many forward thinking councils. Achieving this work is complex and needs all […]

24th March, 2026

Community engagement • Partnerships • Place shaping

During this sprint series of workshop sessions we will be exploring neighbourhood ways of working. Bringing our members together to share learning, practical experience, and challenges around working in neighbourhoods. […]

17th March, 2026

Community engagement • Neighbourhood

Participatory budgeting (PB) is rightly celebrated as a way to give communities influence over funding decisions — from neighbourhood grants and service priorities to whole area budgets. When it works […]

17th March, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Participatory Budgeting • Place-Based Public Service Reform

During this sprint series of workshop sessions we will be exploring Participatory Budgeting (PB). Bringing our members together to share learning, practical experience, and challenges around working on PB processes. […]

17th March, 2026

Community engagement • Participatory Budgeting

Hearing about how councils can communicate their work and engage with their communities through various communication channels

5th February, 2026

Communications • Community engagement • Community Power • Place

Claire Norman from Westmorland and Furness Council discussing their strategy ‘Together we are powered by communities’.

5th February, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Participation and co-production • Strategy

Hearing about the Connected Communities vision at Ealing Council

28th January, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Place

Andre Johnsen on the applied training Change Maker programme developed by Westminster City Council

5th January, 2026

Community engagement • Participation and co-production • Strategy and leadership • Westminster

Join New Local for this session, especially designed for local government communications professionals. This is your chance to meet peers across different organisations, share insights and compare challenges. During this […]

5th December, 2025

Communications • Community engagement • Trusted Messengers

Strong, trusting relationships between councillors and officers are essential for delivering a community-powered approach that truly reflects local priorities. In this Spotlight session, we’ll hear from Paul Matthews, Chief Executive […]

5th December, 2025

Community engagement • Councillors

Join us for an inspiring, interactive session in partnership with Go Vocal, where we will focus on the role of councils in understanding and helping to build shared outcomes and […]

5th December, 2025

Community engagement • Deliberation

Hearing about the Together we are powered by communities strategy at Westmorland and Furness Council

2nd December, 2025

Community engagement • Partnerships • Place

With rising pressure on services, growing inequality, and communities feeling more divided, councils are looking for practical ways to rebuild trust and connection. This session explores how cohesion grows when […]

1st December, 2025

Community Cohesion • Community engagement • Place shaping

Hearing about the Change Maker programme at Westminster City Council

18th November, 2025

Community engagement • Participation and co-production

Liz Jarmin on Leeds City Council’s locality work in wards across the city of Leeds

14th November, 2025

Community engagement • Community Voices • Leeds • Neighbourhood • Place

Join us for this member exclusive Lunch and Learn session focused on how different councils are working in neighbourhood focused ways. We’ve spent the last few months working with member […]

24th October, 2025

Community engagement • Neighbourhood • Place

Building trust and lasting relationships between councils and communities across a place starts with genuine engagement—bringing staff and local stakeholders together to listen, learn, and co-produce solutions is a vital […]

16th September, 2025

Community engagement • Participation and co-production

Nicol McConnell on Sunderland City Council’s work towards making Sunderland a fully digitally inclusive city.

2nd July, 2025

Community engagement • Community Voices • Digital • Sunderland City Council

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored focuses on how place shaping could look for your council and the benefits of this way of working both for colleagues and for communities.

24th June, 2025

Community engagement • Place building • Place shaping • Regeneration

At this event we will talk through our latest research report, Where People Meet: How We Celebrate, Sustain and Reimagine Community Centres. Following the launch of the report, we would like […]

8th May, 2025

Community assets • Community centres • Community engagement

Community centres have long stood as pillars of local life, but we are losing these spaces at pace and at scale. Summer Simpson explores why this matters.

7th May, 2025

Community assets • Community engagement • Community Power • Health and social care

This report sets out the vital role that community centres play in local areas and makes the case for investing in their future.

7th May, 2025

Community assets • Community centres • Community engagement • Community Power • Local government

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores how bringing systems leaders together connects services and improves outcomes for residents.

29th April, 2025

Community Cohesion • Community engagement

Alice Black, Sophie Taylor and Sue Sheehan explain how the London Borough of Camden is embracing neighbourhood ways of working.

22nd April, 2025

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government • Strategy and leadership

Bridging the digital divide is essential for local authorities striving to create inclusive and thriving communities.

18th March, 2025

Community engagement • Digital

Join us for this member exclusive Lunch and Learn session focused on how to impactfully use participatory budgeting to engage with your communities. We’ve spent the last few months […]

12th March, 2025

Community engagement • Impact • Participatory Budgeting

Tackling empty homes in the UK is a critical step toward addressing the housing crisis and revitalizing communities.

27th February, 2025

Community engagement • Housing • Regeneration

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores building community cohesion to help communities and places thrive.

28th January, 2025

Community Cohesion • Community engagement

How do we tell better stories? Use data intelligently? Connect with diverse communities? Counter misinformation? Community-powered councils require a different kind of communications. Join New Local for our first workshop […]

6th December, 2024

Communications • Community engagement

Neighbourhood ways of working are being considered by many councils as a way to bring them closer to their communities.

4th December, 2024

Community engagement • Neighbourhood

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores explores different approaches of democratic working that local authorities have used and see the impact it has had on their relationships with their communities

28th November, 2024

Community engagement • Democratic engagement

At this event we will talk through our latest research report, Constructing Consensus: The case for community-powered development and regeneration. Unblocking the planning system is a top national priority, and […]

22nd November, 2024

Community engagement • Planning • Regeneration

Bridging the digital divide is essential for local authorities striving to create inclusive and thriving communities. Addressing digital literacy challenges empowers individuals to better access opportunities and engage with local […]

11th November, 2024

Community engagement • Digital

Caroline Wilson, Director of Inclusive Economy and Jobs at Islington Borough Council, explains how the council’s approach to community wealth building has emerged and deepened, how it’s helping to tackle inequalities, and how it touches the lives of people...

11th November, 2024

Community engagement • Community Power • Economy and business • Local government

At this event we will talk through our latest research report, Constructing Consensus: The case for community-powered development and regeneration. Following the launch of the report, we would like to […]

7th November, 2024

Community engagement • Planning • Regeneration

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores long term investment in prevention and working in different ways in partnership across local systems of public services and voluntary sector organisations

25th October, 2024

Community engagement • Prevention

We put Hal Khanom in our ‘How We Did It’ hot seat to hear how the London Borough of Barnet has developed its equalities strategy, A Fairer Barnet.

17th October, 2024

Community engagement • Community Power • Equality • Local government • Strategy and leadership

Working towards a fairer share of wealth across a locality helps bind communities together and gives the impetus to help drive forward the local economy.

15th October, 2024

Community engagement • Community-led • wealth building