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Events and Conferences 2008

Empowering and Engaging Citizens in our Communities Roadshows '08

The South West Neighbourhood Resource Centre has held a series of Roadshows around the South West region to highlight the importance of bringing Government closer to people, passing power from Whitehall to local councils and direct to local communities.

During our roadshows the South West Neighbourhood Resource Centre has worked closely with a number of stakeholders, include Government Office South West (GOSW),Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), South West Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (SW RIEP) and the Audit Commission to help organisations deliver priorities around Empowerment and Engagment and how targets can be achived.

Empowering and Engaging Citizens in our Communities Roadshow in Swindon on 16 June 2008

Sue King

The purpose of the Roadshows was to highlight a key obligation - duty to involve – imposed from 1 April 2009 on relevant bodies to actively engage with their communities and promote community empowerment.

Empowering and Engaging Citizens in our Communities Roadshow .

These are just a few comments made by delegates from our first event:

“Interesting subjects/topics – good range of speakers.”

“Very useful information.”

“I enjoyed this and found it useful. The length was good as was the change of speakers.”

We are proud that these events have been so successful and so many delegates attended from a range of statutory authorities, community organisations and residents.

As promised, please find speaker presentations for you to download. Please see links to download all speaker notes as Acrobat PDF's:

Bristol 4 December 2008

Why Engage?
Helen Holland

Legislative Requirements and LAA Outcomes
David Duggan

What's Working
John Skrine

South West Training and Resource Centre Can Help
Sue King

Community Engagement Case Studies
Lynn Jarvie

Supporting Your Delivery Plan
Stephen Fletcher

Comprehensive Area Assessment - Audit Commission
Philip Suter

Evaluation Report

This report was written by the South West Neighbourhood Resource Centre after successfully delivering six regional Empowering and EngagingCitizens in our Communities Roadshows across the South West of England. All delegates were asked to complete feedback sheets to enable us to evaluate the Roadshows and gain valuable information around their priorities.

A copy of this report is available as a downloadable PDF file:

Empowering and engaging citizens in our communities roadshows- Evaluation Report (1,175kb)

For more information on our stakeholders, please view the web links below;

Communities and Local Government - www.communities.gov.uk

Government Office for the South West - www.gos.gov.uk/gosw

South West Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership - www.southwestiep.gov.uk

Improvement and Development Agency - www.idea.gov.uk

Audit Commission - www.audit-commission.gov.uk

Creating Excellence - www.creatingexcellence.org.uk

Working in Communities, Neighbourhoods and Localities case studies

The case studies that we have produced on behalf of South West Councils around Working in Communities, Neighbourhoods and Localities, are available to view at

Community Engagement Case Studies