Stronger Things 2021
Breakout Sessions

Stronger Things includes inspiring and practical breakout sessions hosted by New Local’s partners, every day at 11.05am.

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• A focus on the positive – The Behavioural Insights Team
• A new relationship with communities and partners – Social Finance
• Accelerators and barriers to digital transformation – Coeus
• Community participation when designing services – FutureGov
• Councils backing community led housing – Community Land Trust
• Culture Hacks: How can we shift beyond the service provider mentality? – New Citizenship
• Enabling residents to co-create public services – Citizen lab
• How community-based partnerships are supporting better health services – Bridges Outcomes Partnerships  
• How should big businesses interact with local communities to tackle the climate emergency? – ENGIE
• Health on the high street – Power to Change
• Resilience, social value and communities in placemaking – Jacobs
• Resourcing the collective imagination of communities – National Lottery Trust
• The levelling up agenda – PPL
• Using digital channels to respond to the climate crisis  – Local Partnerships

The levelling up agenda – Hosted by PPL 

A different session every day, all focussed on the levelling up agenda.  

• Wednesday session 1: ‘Levelling up capacity’ with Charlotte Augst, the Chief Executive of National Voices, Paddy Hanrahan, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Helpforce, and the Rt Hon. Baroness Armstrong, Chair of the Lords Public Services Committee. 
• Wednesday session 2: ‘Building a Movement for Community Power in Greater Manchester’ with Nick Dixon, Senior Advisor for Person and Community-centred Approaches at Greater Manchester Health and Care Partnership 
• Thursday: ‘Levelling up connection and community’ with Alex Smith, Chief Executive of the Cares Family and Graham Duxbury, Chief Executive of Groundwork UK  

All other breakout sessions below are repeated at 11.05am on each day of Stronger Things.

Accelerators and barriers to digital transformation – Hosted by Coeus

How well is your council adapting to digital in a pandemic world? Explore how to overcome the biggest barriers to digital transformation and practical actions to accelerate implementation and adoption.    

Effective community participation when designing services – Hosted by FutureGov 

Come to this session if you believe in community participation, but wonder how you actually enable it. We’ll explore the biggest barriers to real participation, the most effective approaches and what you need to consider before doing anything.  

Rebuilding together after Covid – enabling residents to co-create public services 

Hosted by Citizen Lab 

Pandemic recovery will be yet another collective challenge for our communities. Join us to explore how online and digital can harness communities’ resilience and support them through this transition.

A focus on the positive 

Hosted by the Behavioural Insights Team  

Behavioural insights can support those who want to do good and to build stronger, more cohesive societies. Find out how we can use this learning to rebuild as we emerge from the pandemic.   

Potential, not problems: How community-based partnerships are transforming lives and supporting better health services 

Hosted by Bridges Outcomes Partnerships 

Unlock local resources to support a more holistic approach to health and wellbeing through community-driven, strengths-based approaches. Includes live case studies from Grimsby and Kirklees.  

Councils backing community led housing 

Hosted by the Community Land Trust 

The explosion of community land trusts and similar bodies means there are now over 900 groups working on 23,000 potential new homes. Join us to discuss what this kind of community power in action means for housing strategy, planning policy and public assets. 

How should big businesses best interact with local communities to tackle the climate emergency? 

Hosted by ENGIE 

How can large organisations engage with your communities to tackle climate change? This workshop will use your experience and insights to develop practical ways in which councils can truly partner with their communities to act with urgency.  

Resilience, social value and communities in placemaking 

Hosted by Jacobs 

Communities bring resilience and social value that are fundamental to every place, but nurturing and growing them is a nuanced business. Come to this session to share and hear lessons learnt during the traumas of the past year.   

How can digital channels help you communicate with your communities when developing a response to the climate crisis?  

Hosted by Local Partnerships 

Good social media interaction actively engages communities and encourages individual and collective sustainable behaviours. Come to this session to collect practical tips on removing barriers, increase quality engagement with public services, and harness community power to tackle the climate emergency. 

Resourcing the collective imagination of communities

Hosted by the National Lottery Community Fund 

Are you fully using the imagination and foresight of communities in your work? This session will explore things you can do today that will empower your communities to use collective imagination practices and create new narratives for themselves. 

Culture Hacks: How can we shift beyond the service provider mentality? 

Hosted by New Citizenship

Do you worry that your organisation could be trapped in a ‘service provider’ mentality? Those who do know it restricts people’s agency and can crush community power, but it’s so is deeply ingrained it feels impossible to get away from. We’ll look at the big and little things that stop you changing and steps to overcome them.  

Health on the high street – why the time is now

Hosted by Power to Change 

What is the role of health in supporting economic and social recovery and reimagining our relationship with the high street? This session will build on the NHS Confederation and Power to Change’s joint work as well as your own experiences.  

A new relationship with communities and partners – making it happen 

Hosted by Social Finance 

Covid demonstrated how a different relationship with communities is both possible and hugely valuable. Now the roadmap out of lockdown is clearer, we’ll consider together how to deepen these new relationships and make them sustainable. 

 

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