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The Heritage Lottery Fund and Community Participation Melissa Strauss

The Heritage Lottery Fund and Community Participation Melissa Strauss. Participation aim. Create opportunities for people to volunteer in your project (Volunteering)

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The Heritage Lottery Fund and Community Participation Melissa Strauss

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  1. The Heritage Lottery Fund and Community Participation Melissa Strauss

  2. Participation aim • Create opportunities for people to volunteer in your project (Volunteering) • Help your community to take an active part in your project, including helping people make decisions about heritage (Community participation) • Develop new or wider audiences for your heritage (Audience development)

  3. Participation – Community participation Community participation is about involving people in the development of the services, sites and spaces that they use or are affected by. People have an active role in projects, in particular taking part in decision-making and delivery. These people could be audiences and potential audiences, people that live or work locally, or people that have a stake in the heritage of the project because of their characteristics, background or experiences.

  4. Ladder of participation 1 Informing: telling people about your project. 2 Consulting: giving people choices about what happens in your project and a chance to shape it. Real participation gives people a meaningful personal stake in a project. Involving people at the following levels can meet our Participation aim: 3 Deciding together: creating opportunities for people to make decisions about and influence the direction of your project. 4 Acting together: creating opportunities for people to develop and deliver your project, taking a role in heritage conservation and/or learning activities. 5 Supporting others to take the lead: empowering people to have ownership of the project, make final decisions and deliver activities with some independence.

  5. Which level? • Highest not necessarily best • Distance travelled • Ambitious, but achievable Questions to ask: • Why and how you want to involve others? • What might limit community participation? • Who should be involved and what is acceptable to them?

  6. Acting together Why collaboration / co-production? • Democratic, open organisations • Legitimacy in representation • Attracting and retaining audiences • Interesting, innovative results

  7. HLF guidance Community participation: • The 5 levels • Principles of partnership working • Being inclusive • Training and support

  8. Heritage Lottery Fund 7 Holbein Place London SW1W 8NR Telephone: 020 7591 6000 Textphone: 020 7591 6255 www.hlf.org.uk

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