Fifty people attended an exciting three day workshop in Skipton exploring how local government supports Community Engagement, Leadership and Voice. In addition to sharing experiences with each other and a range of discussions, group work and action planning, the workshop heard some really stimulating presentations from regional, national and four international speakers.

You can download both the report and presentations below.

Speakers included

• Isobel Mills, Government Office Yorkshire and the Humber, 'How do we do more of what we do well?'
• Davy Jones, Independent Consultant: 'Participation, Partnerships, People, Place, Planet & Politics
• Urban Forum - 'Understanding feelings of Influence'
  
• Theresa Stearn, Audit Commission, 'Working Together on the Improvement Agenda'
  
• Teddy Noble, (Jamaica) Reflections from work in Southwark, 'Pathways to upscaling local evidence/ Voice into Policy''
  
• Liz Weaver, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, Canada, ' Three Big Ideas'
  
• Amina Salihu, Nigeria (presentation to be uploaded soon)
• Jim Diers, Seattle, U.S.A. 'Empowering Neighbourhoods - The Seattle Story'

See also (LINK to YouTube video of similar presentation given by Jim in London)

Attachment	Date	Size
Champions Report .pdf	23/06/10 9:44 am	975.07 KB
Framing paper_FINAL_.pdf	01/06/10 2:14 pm	193.19 KB
Isobel Mills GOYH.pdf	02/04/10 10:07 am	390.37 KB
Davy Jones.pdf	02/04/10 10:08 am	587.88 KB
Urban Forum.pdf	02/04/10 10:10 am	579.88 KB
Theresa Stearn.pdf	02/04/10 10:10 am	184.62 KB
Teddy Noble.pdf	02/04/10 10:19 am	545.96 KB
Liz Weaver.pdf	02/04/10 10:20 am	1.32 MB
Jim Diers.pdf	22/06/10 4:52 pm	14.01 MB