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The Assembly Members are a group of residents from across Newham who have been brought together to provide recommendations on the key question:
How can we work together to make our parks and green spaces even better for residents and visitors?
How do we ensure that everyone has access to green quality spaces?
Ten thousand letters were sent to randomly selected households inviting residents to register for a place on the Citizens’ Assembly. Fifty people were randomly selected to represent the area to discuss our assembly question and make recommendations.
Together, you will explore the issues, learn from a range of experts and deliberate with each other before reaching a conclusion on what you collectively think should happen.
The names of your fellow Assembly members are:
Abdullah, Adnan, Adyan, Andrew, Anne, Barry, Charlotte, Constance, Daniel, Fahim, Fathima, Golddy, Habib, Hanna, Heidi, Jack, Jahanzeb, Jayshiva, Jennifer, Joyce, Kawser, Kulsoom, Lidia, Malarselvi, Meena, Mohammed, Molly, Narén , Nathan, Osman, Pete, Ranjit, Reece, Samuel, Sara, Shabina, Shah, Sharmin, Somya, Stephanie, Syed H, Syed S, Timothy, Uzair, Veronica, Yasmin
What can assembly members share about being involved?
What can assembly members share about being involved?
We know that it is really exciting to have been selected as an Assembly member for the Newham Standing Citizen Assembly. Many of you won't have participated in your communities in a way like this before!
Whilst the assembly is live we have some important asks of you throughout your time as an Assembly member.
We would ask that you:
Don't share information about, or hint towards, any of the recommendations that the Assembly makes as part of its work. The recommendations will be shared at the end of the process via your final report (which will be drafted by Democratic Society). Please don't share anything publicly until then.
This is important as your thoughts, ideas or opinions may change as you move through the full five days.
Respect privacy of fellow assembly members - this includes not sharing pictures or screenshots of anything during the Assembly sessions as it is important for us to create a safe online space for everyone.
If you would like, you are welcome to:
Use the hashtag #NewhamSpeaks when you are discussing anything about the process, for example, talk about being excited to be involved in the Assembly or something you have learned bout greening the borough.
Speak to friends, family, neighbours, community groups about the Assembly taking place. They might like to look at the expert's videos and find out other information about the Assembly on Newham Council's website.
How were assembly members recruited?
How were assembly members recruited?
Letters were sent out to 10,000 households in Newham. The addresses were randomly selected through a process of sortition by our partners, Sortition Foundation. They were tasked with recruiting 50 Assembly members who are representative of the Newham population. There was no option to directly apply to be a member of the Assembly as members are selected randomly (through a process called random stratified sampling).
Over 400 Newham residents responded to the invite letters. From this group of responses, Sortition Foundation were able to select a sample of 50 people which broadly matched the demographics of the area. The demographic categories used in the selection of the Assembly members were:
Gender;
Age;
Occupation;
Geography (across 4 areas in Newham);
Disability
Ethnicity.
Sortition Foundation were able to broadly match the target figures for each of the categories above based on participants who were available to take part. The target pie charts below represents Newham's population. The process of recruitment of Assembly members tried to get the selected group as close to this as possible.
Unfortunately we had a number of people who had to drop-out of the assembly at a late stage. As a result there were ultimately 46 confirmed participants, which is the number shown in the 'Selected (confirmed)' pie charts. These pie charts have been updated from those originally shared on this page to reflect these changes.
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