Place-Based Peer Learning Newsletter: January 2025
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 the Joint Cultural Needs Assessment, programming for poverty awareness, and project sharing.
Upcoming Events
Connect and Reflect
Join our first ‘Connect and Reflect’ session of the new year on Wednesday 5 February.
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. February’s session will focus on developing an advocacy strategy.
Our ‘Connect and Reflect’ sessions take place on the first Wednesday of each month and 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.
Joint Cultural Needs Assessment
Join Jonothan Neelands and Mark Scott for a practical session on how to utilise the updated Joint Cultural Needs Assessment Guidelines.
In the two-hour session, discover how the guidelines can help you align cultural strategies with local priorities to address urgent place-based needs.
The session will take place on Wednesday 26 February.
Catch up
Introduction to the Culture and Place Data Explorer
In Autumn 2024, we launched the Culture and Place Data Explorer, an interactive tool that allows users to map investment in culture and creativity with over 200 other data indicators that tell us more about people and places across the country.
Catch up on the session delivered by Join James Evans, Data Governance Manager and Ria Jones, Senior Project Manager, Place to learn more about the Culture and Place Data Explorer.
Programming for Poverty Awareness
Take a look at our recent sessions and resources on programming for poverty awareness.
Children North East delivered a session on ‘Poverty Proofing in arts and culture: how to start?’. The session explored the initial steps of poverty proofing your arts and cultural provision your organisation could take.
There’s also a range of resources and case studies from Children North East and Child Poverty Action Group to explore too.
In our recent ‘5-minute Project Shares’ event we heard from a variety of projects which focused on programming for poverty awareness.
Interested in finding out more? Take a look at the case studies shared.
Data Visualisation
Catch up on David McCandless’s recent session and discover ways to visualise your data beyond just the use of standard charts.
David McCandless's methodologies focus on how to communicate concepts through data visualisation and infographics, supporting participants to use their data to share ideas and tell convincing stories.
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.
Project Sharing
In our ‘Project Shares’ event we heard from a variety of projects, and we have been highlighting one of the case studies shared with us at the event over the last few newsletters.
Manchester's local cultural education partnership, MADE, shared their work to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people in their community.
Interested in finding out more? All of the project share recordings are available to view on Hivebrite.
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