ON the evening of Thursday the 14th September nine months of multi-agency collaboration culminated in the delivery of a World Café at Revoe School in Blackpool. This is part of a MutualGain initiative from the Home Office which trains staff to engage with communities in a completely different way. The aim of the café is[…]
Susan Ritchie examines the case for developing evidence based policing to increase community engagement whilst making best use of shrinking resources. This blog originally appeared on the Policing Insight site. Evidence based policing is the order of the day for the government: PCCs and the Chief Constables are to ensure that public resources are allocated[…]
Carly Griffith – our new Intern for Health and Inequality, shares her thoughts on her first week at MutualGain. Monday 17th July 2017 – First meeting with MutualGain. The day started off with an early morning train down to Birmingham, where the meeting was set to take place at Moseley[…]
Susan Ritchie, Director of MutualGain and an Associate at the Consultation Institute, writes her latest blog about the recent Consultation Institute Conference. A useful read for all working in organisations who go to consultation, or those active citizens who might wish to challenge a decision made! I attended the annual conference for the[…]
On Saturday 6th March, Andrew and Owen from MutualGain spent the day at ‘Unity in the Community‘ Participatory Budgeting (PB) event at the Greek Cypriot Association in Birmingham. The events was the culmination of training and support provided by MutualGain to the Birmingham East neighbourhood police team, partners and active citizens. Throughout this period a[…]
MutualGain were pleased to sponsor the West Midlands Association of Women in Policing Awards 2017 ceremony at Fazley Studios in Birmingham on Friday 3rd February. The awards ceremony looked to celebrate the achievement of women working across the West Midlands Police force area, with serving police officers, police staff and partners all recognised for[…]
This week has been an interesting blend of art, culture, politics and work. Start of the week: As I roamed the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam I was reminded that you don’t need to like all art, but your life is more fulfilled if you’re willing to explore and learn what you do and don’t[…]
This blog is one of a series published on the PB Network pages following the 2016 International Participatory Budgeting Conference attended by MutualGain in October, 2016. Here, Dr Andrew Fisher gives reflections on his workshop presentation: Two weeks ago I presented a workshop at the International PB conference on the use of PB in relation[…]
MutualGain’s Dr Andrew Fisher recently supported Cheshire East Council to deliver a Participatory Budgeting process in Handforth last month which saw £20,000 shared between five groups based upon voting by members of the community. The process was part of a £400,000 investment by Cheshire East Council in improving the health of residents across the borough, and[…]
PB Network Session, as part of Engage, Think, Do!, the Edinburgh international PB conference fringe. An update on the UK PB Network, by Susan Ritchie, acting chair of the UK PB Network. PB Partners and PB Network colleagues helped to deliver day two of the very successful International PB conference held in Scotland on[…]
