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 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[…]
This blog builds on the learning from the MutualGain networked learning and support programme which has been tested in two police forces – one large and one small. The visual above captures emerging themes from cohorts when asked what would need to happen to police with, by and for communities: what would policing look like[…]
I was challenged recently to consider how the MutualGain programme (capacity building the police to engage with the public differently) reflected a game of football. It was important for me to test this metaphor as it came from a participant of the programme: I wanted him to present with me at the Citizens in Policing[…]
by Dr Andrew Fisher and Susan Ritchie The last few weeks have seen some very troubling headlines for the police which raises questions about their legitimacy and the confidence that the public have in their ability to keep them safe. Despite much work being done to address the ‘confidence’ issue over the years, we know[…]
