Place-Based Peer Learning Newsletter: July 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. While focusing on data visualisation, working with children and young people, and connecting with your peers.
UPCOMING EVENTS
How to Create Impactful Infographics and Data Visuals
Join David McCandless for a creative and fun two-hour session on how to visualise data beyond just the use of charts.
In the session, you’ll learn how to use your data to share ideas and tell convincing stories to effectively communicate the impact of your work in your place.
The session will take place on Wednesday 16 October.
Connect and Reflect
Join our next ‘Connect and Reflect: Connecting Your Community to the Outdoors’ session on Wednesday 4 September.
Each session focuses on a particular theme, we provide suggested questions to start the discussion and then it's over to you to talk about the topic with your peers.
The sessions provide the perfect time to digitally connect with your Place-Based peers, consider a range of themes 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 4 September: Connecting Your Community to the Outdoors
- Wednesday 2 October: Commissioning Podcasts and Films
- Wednesday 6 November: Visualising Data to Tell the Story of Your Place
- Wednesday 4 December: Poverty Awareness in Your Programmes
Save the Date
We will be hosting a second project share event later this year on programming for poverty awareness.
The event is in response to ongoing requests for opportunities to hear about other place-based work. The session will follow the same format as our ‘5-Minute Project Shares’ event earlier in the year and we will be looking for projects to share their experiences of programming for poverty awareness. If you’d like to share a project you have worked on, do keep an eye out for our call out.
The event will take place on Wednesday 11 December. We’ll share more details on Hivebrite soon!
CATCH UP
Watch again
Did you miss any of our ‘How to’ sessions on community-led monitoring and evaluation? The sessions were delivered by Elene Cloete, PhD, and Nancy Bobadilla from Outreach International, and were aimed at anyone who was new to the topic or would like to develop their skills.
The topics were:
- How to Get Started with Community led Monitoring and Evaluation
- How to Build Your Community led Monitoring and Evaluation Practice
Take a look
If you missed our session on how to involve children and young people in the research process, then you can catch up on the learnings from the event with our illustrated summary.
The session was delivered by Teresa Geraghty and Ayesha Akkari from the National Children’s Bureau.
Part of a Cultural Compact? We need you! Join the Place-Based Peer Learning Steering Group!
Rebecca Ball, one of our Cultural Compact Steering Group Representatives, is taking up the exciting new role as Director, North at Arts Council England. While we’re really looking forward to welcoming Rebecca to the Arts Council England team, this means we have an opportunity for a new Cultural Compacts representative to join!
Would you like to help shape the Place-Based Peer Learning Programme? Steering Group members participate in co-creation sessions, offer feedback from the Cultural Compact network on the programme, and help identify how the Place-Based Peer Learning Programme can help address the needs of the Cultural Compact network. Find out more about the role.
Interested in getting involved? Complete our expression of interest form by 9 August. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions or access needs.
HIVEBRITE
Thursday Morning Film Club
Every week we’ll be sharing a video on Hivebrite from a place-based programme to highlight the brilliant work that's happening across the country. If you'd like one of your films to be featured, drop us an email to tell us more!
Connect with your peers
Our digital community networking platform, Hivebrite, is the perfect place to connect with your Place-Based peers across the country. If you have an update to share or a question to ask, why not post it on our News Feed.
If you’re looking to connect with colleagues working in a similar way, then you can search for other users by name or organisation. Make sure to take the time to update your profile with your role, organisation and contact details, so others can easily connect with you.
Project Sharing
In our ‘5-minute Project Shares’ event we heard from a variety of projects and over the coming newsletters, we will be highlighting one of the case studies shared with us at the event.
Culture in Common shared their experiences of establishing a rural touring theatre programme in the New Forest.
Interesting in finding out more? All of the project share recordings are available to view on Hivebrite.
Useful Links:
- Let’s Create
- Join our Place-Based Peer Learning Network
- Subscribe to our Place-Based Peer Learning newsletter
Image Credit: Arts and wellbeing activity at Hillyfield Primary Academy @ The LPA, Xavier Fiddes / Hillyfield Primary Academy.