Building successful community groups (SessionID: 50002)

Community Groups are often set up for good reasons, but they often fail... Why is that?

Covered : Looking at the underlying causes of why community groups often fall apart and changes we can implement to prevent that happening

Includes :-

• The typical life cycle of a Community Group
• Crashing the committee
• New ideas for more sustainable groups
• Leaderships (good or bad?) vs Facilitation
• Communication strategies (technology)

Duration : 90 minutes

Cost : Pay what you feel the value was to you

Why should you attend?

Often when a 'cause' is identified and a community group set up it is undertaken with high levels of passion and energy. Although hugely important, there is a lot more than this required to turn a fledgling group into one that delivers on its mission.

This workshop provides some ideas which can lead to much greater levels of resilience for the group, which ensures all the passion, energy and effort continues to deliver for the community.

What you will learn :- Most of us who set up community groups are doing it for the first time so awareness of potential pitfalls is invaluable

• How to create an environment of positivity
• Some basic guidelines and fundamentals to underpin your group
• Communication strategies
• Gaining supporters

Who will benefit?

If you are thinking about a community initiative, have already started one and /or you are struggling with an existing group, then this workshop will provide plenty to think about (and implement)

"just because we're building a community group they are no less complex than regular businesses... with all the same challenges! ... the difficulty very often is that people don't have to be there... and they don't HAVE to do anything either..."