Practical ways to engage with your community

Community empowerment is about motivated people actively engaged in making a difference to the places they know best. Residents need to know how they can get involved, and councils need to know how to help them do so. These methods and tools should help make engagement easier.

• Questions to ask before you begin
• Planning how you will use community empowerment tools
• About our list of community empowerment methods
• Consultation methods
• Participatory techniques
• Scrutiny methods
• Other useful methods

from Practical ways to engage with your community via Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA). The IDeA supports improvement and innovation in local government, focusing on the issues that are important to councils and using tried and tested ways of working.