Tag: Participation and co-production

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

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

Hearing about the Change Maker programme at Westminster City Council

18th November, 2025

Community engagement • Participation and co-production

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

Xia Lin from Toynbee Hall introduces a research method designed to embed resident participation in local change-making.

6th September, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government • Participation and co-production

Xia Lin from Toynbee Hall introduces a research method designed to embed resident participation in local change-making and explains how co-design principles can be used to level the power playing field.

6th September, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Local government • Participation and co-production

Produced in partnership with What Works Centre for Wellbeing, this report reviews the evidence related to community agency, control and power and their effects on community wellbeing.

22nd June, 2023

Community Cohesion • Community Power • Education and skills • Employment • Participation and co-production • Public Health • Wellbeing

Co-designing with marginalised communities can have hugely positive impacts but is often a challenge for many local authorities to do in reality. At this session we heard from Toynbee Hall […]

7th June, 2023

Engagement • Participation and co-production • poverty

Urgent action is needed in response to the growing number of people affected by deepening poverty in the UK. Developed in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this report sets out a framework to support local areas to design...

10th May, 2023

Central government • Community Power • Local government • Participation and co-production • poverty • Public Services

In collaboration with The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we have developed a framework to support local areas to make progress towards designing out the most severe forms of hardship.

10th May, 2023

Central government • Community Power • Local government • Participation and co-production • poverty • Public Services

New Local’s Polly Lord and Tom Chigbo from TPXimpact share some of the learnings from their research on innovative community engagement, carried out with the LGA.

7th February, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Innovation • Participation and co-production • Whole Council Approach

Given current challenges around local government finance, increasing revenue is top of the agenda for all councils right now. Additional investment is needed to fulfil your ambitions and provide high […]

20th January, 2023

Community engagement • Economy and business • Participation and co-production

Drawing on recent work in Edmonton, North London, Nicola Steuer charts an impactful and cost-effective route for Integrated Care Systems to tackle health inequalities.

17th January, 2023

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Health and social care • Participation and co-production

The current cost-of-living crisis adds to the urgency to not only mitigate the impact of poverty, but to fundamentally rethink how systems can prevent people falling into the deepest forms of hardship. Together with Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), New...

23rd August, 2022

Community engagement • Participation and co-production • poverty • Public Services

5 lessons from 15 years of supporting better outcomes by developing effective place-based partnerships.

25th March, 2022

Health and social care • Participation and co-production • Place building • Public Services • Stronger Things

CitizenLab share their top tips for community engagement and explain the value of a dedicated digital engagement team.

17th March, 2022

Community Cohesion • Events • Local government • Participation and co-production • Public Services • Stronger Things

Ideas and reflections on embedding a more autonomous and permissive working culture; building greater resilience within the workforce; and creating a culture of co-production with local partners and communities.

2nd March, 2022

Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Culture • Participation and co-production • Partnerships

Participative approaches are popular - but they often fail to be truly inclusive Alex Fox OBE, who leads the revolutionary Shared Lives community carer scheme, shares his two lessons for making sure people with disabilities and other excluded groups...

30th October, 2019

Democracy • Participation and co-production • Political Systems

A week ago, the UK reached its hottest recorded temperature. Over the weekend half a month’s rain fell in one hour. On Tuesday, major flooding hit Yorkshire. And yesterday, the […]

1st August, 2019

Climate change • Democracy • Environment • Participation and co-production

“Thanks for this short bright moment in a very gloomy world” – Silver Sunday guest Last week when I opened the NLGN Annual Conference, I cited “Silver Sunday” as an […]

15th March, 2019

Community Power • Participation and co-production • Public Services

Developing deeper relationships with your residents and moving from a transactional relationship to a collaborative one.

20th October, 2018

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Democracy • Members • Participation and co-production

Exploring how different councils have approached co-production: where users are equally responsible for shaping a service.

29th May, 2018

Community Power • Innovation In-depth • Members • Participation and co-production • Social Care • Young people • Youth

NLGN is today launching our latest Innovation Briefing, exclusively for our members. This focusses on how local authorities are using co-production to transform their services and make sure they meet […]

8th May, 2018

Participation and co-production • Public Services

Community participation in local government initiatives has become an imperative globally, including the UK, since it lies at the core of democratic values. Nonetheless, it continues to be a challenge, […]

3rd February, 2018

Democracy • Leadership • Participation and co-production

Mainly due to budget cuts over the past seven years, councils have become more efficient in how they work. But a new approach is needed in order to boost productivity […]

11th July, 2017

Participation and co-production • Public Services