Introduction
This page offers materials and bite-sized, interactive tutorials on understanding and delivering community engagement and behaviour change in Places for Everyone projects.
This includes a practical guide to behaviour change strategies and interventions, as well as a community engagement guide, and the types of community sector organisations. Please note that you can find the references and relevant resources at the bottom of this page.
This page is a work in progress an will be updated with new materials frequently. Your feedback will help shape future sessions and materials.
Developing a Behaviour Change Plan
In this session, we cover:
- Why behaviour change plans are important;
- What behaviour change plans should include;
- Community engagement vs behaviour change;
- Involving seldom-heard groups;
- Selecting interventions; and
- Key points to remember.
Putting Theory into Practice
The session above, “Developing a Behaviour Change Plan”, mentions that one of the most effective mechanisms for boosting active travel is a mix of measures that complement each other. Infrastructure is just one measure we can use. In this session, we take a practical look at how to put together an effective programme that will result in a greater diversity of people using the infrastructure.
Introduction to Behaviour Change
In this session, we cover:
- What is behaviour change?
- ISM and Shifting Normal models
- COM-B and the Behaviour Change Wheel
- Tying it all together using a real life example
- Making things happen
Introduction to Community Sector Organisations
In this session we’re going to look at community organisations in a bit more depth. We cover:
- Explanation of the terms Community Sector, Third sector and Voluntary sector
- Types of community organisation
- Legal structures
- Social enterprises and BIDs
Community Engagement and Co-production
Our Community Engagement Guide 2022 provides an overview of best practice in community engagement and allows you to easily identify which deliverables and activities are appropriate at each stage in the process. This guide covers:
- An overview of community engagement standards that underpin effective and purposeful engagement
- Community Engagement activity by project stage
Stakeholder Register and Mapping Template
This template offers:
- A stakeholder register for easy recording and categorising of stakeholders
- A stakeholder map for visual representation of the stakeholders involved in your Places for Everyone project
- A list of generic stakeholder groups that you may consider for your stakeholder register/ map
References and relevant resources
- ISM User Guide
- Shifting Normal Guide
- Behaviour Change Wheel
- Intervention Information Sheets
- Components of a Behaviour Change Plan
- Exemplary Behaviour Change plans (coming soon)
- Intervention examples spreadsheed (coming soon)