This exchange provided us with the opportunity to learn how to use effective community engagement to build a service offer for your community that is health and wellbeing centred. The exchange also had an internal focus, looking at how staff welfare is reflected in the organisation’s values and strategy. The exchange widened participants’ knowledge on participatory engagement and placemaking principles and helped kickstart ideas of how to develop this within their communities.

Learning Outcomes

• Explore how designing effective participatory engagement can build trust, inclusivity and drive community-led action to shape health and wellbeing service design and outcomes.
• Gain a deeper understanding of placemaking and place-based principles to ensure communities have a stronger role in and control over their social, economic and cultural wellbeing.
• Learn about how our engagement with staff welfare has shaped our organisation’s values and strategy.

"The section on staff welfare was very helpful, we have now looked to implement some of the suggestions within our organisation to improve staff wellbeing and create a robust, resilient staffing cohort."