Here at Urban Forum we believe our range of services can help you to be more effective in building skills for effective meaningful community action, ensuring a better quality of engagement between yourselves and the communities or people you serve.

For instance, Urban Forum can help you to develop a stronger community voice that better influences decision making and service delivery – collecting evidence of community needs, developing practical engagement strategies and building community resilience in the face of economic, environmental and social challenges.

Our core business revolves around supporting participation and engagement. Working with, and for, all sectors our unrivalled attention to detail, drawing on a wide range of innovative participatory and deliberative techniques to develop bespoke engagement plans and activities, will ensure that you shape and deliver a project that gets to the heart of the information you need.

Our interactive Briefing Sessions can help a diverse audience get quickly up to speed with current government policy and programmes and their practical implications. Specialist sessions can be arranged, such as the current sessions covering the community resilience tools and techniques used in the new Urban Forum Guide to Community Resilience. Other courses cover Community Rights in our Community Rights Made Real package and the Big Society in Bringing The Big Society To Life.

In terms of who these courses are aimed at, we can and do run specialist courses for:

> Councillors and/or Officers

> Voluntary and Community groups

> Partners and Citizens

Urban Forum runs many events, ranging from customised workshops delivering skills training to consultation events or simply knowledge-sharing and networking events, designed to inform and inspire.

Our communications are designed with the reader in mind: accessible, practical and packed full of essential information. Our ability to edit, design and print a wide range of publications - from Annual Reports to Handy Guides and online materials to conference packs - is now available for you to utilise in support of your own organisation's communications.

Similarly, we are passionate about the use of social media and would welcome the opportunity to show how increasing your online presence can deliver tangible benefits fpor your organisation or partnership. We believe it is now an essential plank of your communications strategy.

Then there's change management. Or ‘social innovation'. Urban Forum's skills and knowledge in co-designing and delivering new ways of working, harnessing latent resources and reconciling community capacity/capability/interest with public sector working. Being able to develop and use methodologies to foster strengthened collaboration between communities and the state. We understand how local government works and how the thrid sector works and we are well placed to help join these two up in a creative and solution-focused way.

In all of our services, we pride ourselves on a positive and engaging approach, which will help you to success.

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We can offer different types and levels of support, depending upon your needs and resources

Urban Forum Briefing Sessions
We can run briefing sessions to help you keep up-to date with the latest policy developments and explore what they mean for you.  We can also run specialist sessions to provide you with an overview of community resilience tools and tecniques based on The Urban Forum Guide to Community Resilience.

Urban Forum Research and Consultation
We can help you to scope, shape and deliver a research or consultation project to get at the information you need and to share it with the people who need to know about it.

Urban Forum Events
We can support you to bring people together for events that educate, inform and inspire, acting as a springboard for positive change. We can work with you to plan and deliver the event deploying a range of techniques to present information and enable meaningful interaction.

Urban Forum Training and Facilitation
We can deliver a customised workshop or learning event to help you build the skills and knowledge you need. We can facilitate group discussions and practical activities whether you want to open up to new ideas or close in on the action required or both.

Urban Forum Publications
Whether you want an information briefing, a strategy document, a community newspaper or an annual report we can help you with all aspects of creating a publication from planning and writing through to design, print and distribution.

Urban Forum Communication and Networking
The Urban Forum team has a wide range of skills, knowledge and experience in communication and networking at local, regional and national levels. We can help you harness the right mix of tools and techniques to strengthen your network, build your profile or increase your influence.

We are able to provide a service or project that combines a mix of the above and will always tailor our input to your needs.

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