Place-Based Peer Learning Newsletter: March 2024
Welcome to the latest edition of our Place-Based Peer Learning Newsletter!
In this edition we’ll be sharing with you the latest events, learning and news from the programme, with a focus on data and evaluation, project sharing and more.
UPCOMING EVENTS
5-Minute Project Shares
Would you like to hear more about recent place-based projects? Do you have a project or initiative that you have worked on that you’d like to share?
We've had lots of requests for opportunities to hear about other place-based projects. So, we're excited to invite you to our new 5-Minute Project Shares session.
This is a great opportunity to get together to inspire, learn and discuss what's going on in your area. We're asking people to get involved by sharing a project or even an idea with the group. As the name suggests, a 5 minute presentation from each person would be brilliant, but we don't expect anything formal. It's just a chance to get together to listen and learn about various projects.
This experimental event will take place on 27 March and we can't wait to hear from you!
Connect and Reflect
Join our next ‘Connect and Reflect: Springing Forward, Reflecting Back’ session on Wednesday 3 April.
Each session focuses on a particular theme. We provide suggested questions to start the conversation and then it's over to you to discuss the theme with your peers.
The sessions provide the perfect time to digitally connect with your place-based peers, consider a range of topics and come away with new approaches to your work.
Our ‘Connect and Reflect’ sessions take place on the first Wednesday of each month and the upcoming sessions are:
- Wednesday 3 April: Springing Forward, Reflecting Back
- Wednesday 1 May: A 360 View: Understanding Your Place
- Wednesday 5 June: Learning from Other Sectors
Community-led Monitoring and Evaluation
Would you like to establish community-led monitoring in your place? Are you interested in further developing your community-led evaluation? Join our upcoming sessions to delve into the topic in more detail.
Each session will be delivered by community-led evaluation specialists Elene Cloete, PhD, and Nancy Bobadilla from Outreach International, a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates community-led development worldwide.
- Thursday, 18 April, 1pm-2pm: How to Get Started with Community-led Monitoring and Evaluation: The Whats, Wheres, and Whys of Facilitating Locally Owned Practices
- Wednesday, 8 May, 1pm-2pm: How to Build Your Community-led Monitoring and Evaluation Practice: A Guide for Facilitating Local Data Collection, Analysis, and Ownership
Join the Place-Based Peer Learning Steering Group!
Would you like to help shape the Place-Based Peer Learning Programme? We have an opportunity for a member of the Creative People and Places network to join our Steering Group and co-create our programme.
Steering Group members participate in co-creation sessions, offer feedback from the Creative People and Places network on the programme, and help identify how the Place-Based Peer Learning Programme can help address the needs of the CPP network. Find out more about the role.
Interested in getting involved? Please complete our expression of interest form by 22 March. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions or access needs.
CATCH UP
‘How to’ series
Did you miss any of our ‘How to’ sessions on data and evaluation? The sessions were delivered by James Akers and Jack Roscoe from the Digital Culture Network and were aimed at anyone who was new to the topic or would like to develop their skills.
The topics were:
- How I Learned to Love my Data
- How to Collect High Quality Surveys
- How to Collect Data in a Public Space
These sessions were aimed at anyone who was new to data and evaluation or who would like to develop their skills further.
Share with your peers
Do you have an upcoming event that you’d like to share? Have you delivered a place-based initiative that others could learn from?
We’d be delighted to hear more about your work and upcoming events, and others in the network will too!
Post the details on Hivebrite, our digital community networking platform.
Hivebrite is open to those working in a place-based way. If you have any colleagues that you think may benefit from the platform, please do share the details with them.
SECTOR UPDATES
New survey on early years and creativity
We’ve commissioned Magic Acorns CIC to research examples of arts practices that nurture and listen to the voices of young children. The short survey is open until Friday 5 April.
If you know practitioners or organisations working with children aged from birth to three, feel free to share the survey to help us understand how young children use creativity to understand the world.
Environmental Responsibility Annual Report
Each year we team up with Julie’s Bicycle to produce our Environmental Responsibility Annual Report, which celebrates the successes of creative and cultural organisations in acting on national and international climate targets.
The report offers insights into the creative and cultural sector’s continuing commitment to Environmental Responsibility, showing success stories and how organisations are understanding and reducing their environmental impact.
Historic England celebrated the end of the High Streets Heritage Action Zones programme with a new toolkit was launched to support people putting on free, community events in their high streets or town centres.
The toolkit was developed by Emergency Exit Arts and takes the lessons, ideas and conversations that came out of Hi! Street Fest and combines them with EEA’s 40 years of experience to create a “how to” for putting on free cultural community events in high streets or town centres.
The toolkit covers everything from budgeting, marketing, evaluation and co-creation with templates, checklists and timelines.
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