In order for a community to take direct management roles or volunteer in their local services, they have to know that that particular service wouldn’t exist in the first place unless they run it.
If a service seems new or partly theirs then being a part of it becomes far more valuable and seemingly necessary than traditional ‘volunteering’.
To do this services have to be built from the ground up, involving the people who will use them.
This is co-creation...
Thank you very much to all those that attended The St Pauls Conversation on March the 19th and for all your hard work! The day would not have worked without you.
We are still in the process of collating all of the group’s efforts and talking about the best routes forward. The teams produced some really fantastic, useful, workable ideas and I am looking forward to telling you about them soon. As the next step, we will be putting the results from the day up on the wall in the Learning & Family Centre cafe and getting feedback from the community.