If you’re planning a Community Spaces project – or any project that involves public spaces and will affect local people’s lives – you should be engaging people in consultation. Or in lay mans terms, you should be involving people that live near the site as well as end users in planning your project.

Consultations are about taking on board concerns, comments and ideas from local people – both young and old – and ensuring that you are listening to what they say before you start your project.

Consultations are a key requirement of Community Spaces projects. We want to fund projects that have engaged local people, which tell us what local people have said and show how the feedback has been incorporated into plans for the project.

Many groups struggle with consultation and aren’t sure how best to go about involving the wider community – other groups are ‘pros’ at this and use creative and fun ways to engage local people!

Tell us what you know about consultation

We’d like groups to share what they know about consultation with us here… Let us know how you have tackled consultation and share any useful hints & tips you have.

We’d also like to hear from those of you that might be struggling with this, what are you finding difficult? What questions would you like answered?