Place-Based Peer Learning Newsletter: September 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, programming for poverty awareness, and advocacy skills.
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.
5-minute Project Shares: Programming for Poverty Awareness
Are you interested in hearing examples of programming for poverty awareness? Would you like to share a project or initiative that you have worked on lately?
We’ve had requests for opportunities to hear about other place-based projects. So, we invite you to give a 5-minute online presentation on a recent project to a small group!
The event will take place on Wednesday 11 December and the session will follow the same format as our ‘5-Minute Project Shares’ event earlier in the year.
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
Advocacy Skills
Would you like to develop your advocacy skills? Are you keen to develop an advocacy strategy but need some helpful tips on where to start?Join our upcoming sessions with Helen Collinson, International NGO Training & Research Centre (INTRAC), an advocacy practitioner with thirty years’ experience in this field.
This second session will build on the first session, it is recommended that participants attend both sessions – but not essential.
- Thursday 30 January 2025: Introduction to Advocacy and Key Steps to Developing an Advocacy Strategy
- Thursday 13 February 2025: Developing Advocacy Skills
HIVEBRITE
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.
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!
CATCH UP
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.
Create Rochdale shared their experiences of establishing a professional development network to benefit children and young people in the area.
Would you like to catch up? All of the project share recordings are available to view on Hivebrite.
Catch up
SECTOR UPDATE
NAVCA Guidance
The NAVCA have released some guidance about responding to racist violence in local communities, which may be useful for you.
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