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THE STRATEGY CONSULTATION IS NOW CLOSED. Many thanks for all the excellent and useful comments. We are currently planning how the final strategy will be published, which we expect to happen in spring. If you have any further comments or queries, don't hesitate to get in touch: karin@involve.org.uk. |
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It is two years since Involve held our initial R&D workshops across the Britain to ask how we could help support improved public participation in the UK. Since then we have undertaken projects for the European Commission, Home Office, Department for Communities & Local Government, Department of Constitutional Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry as well as a number of local authorities. We have also advised the Scottish Executive, OECD and BBC, published several books on participation issues and contributed to numerous conferences and publications. Yet, the past two years has been dominated by building the internal infrastructure of a new organisation, as well as the external relationships upon which Involve depends. We have been deliberately internal facing. Consequently we have not supported our network of partners sufficiently well, or built strong enough relations with citizens groups, NGOs or the voluntary and community sector generally. It is now time for that to change. This strategy building process is the first step in that change, and we would like your help. Over the next two years our challenge is to transform Involve's profile and to make sure that what we do has real impact. We want to do this through being at the forefront of original thinking on public participation practices and through building our networks with other actors in the public realm and wider society. Our aim for the years ahead is to become a driving force in empowering citizens and securing greater public participation across Britain. Our plans for how we will make this happen are explained in the Involve Strategy, a document which we have been developing over the past few months with the input of Involve staff, board members and associates. None of these plans are cast in stone. We have outlined our ideas but now we want to hear from others if they think this is the right direction for Involve. It is for this reason that we have decided to carry out this consultation, looking for comments, questions and inputs from members of the Involve network and others. On these pages we have inserted extracts from the Involve Strategy, with questions we would like you to consider, and space for comments and discussion about their content. We hope the plans we put forward will seem exciting and innovative, but most importantly, we hope that you will tell us what you think. |
INVOLVE STRATEGY: AN INTRODUCTION
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