Engaging With Your Community | Training

Engaging with your local community is the key to success, and in this session you’ll learn how to engage and make the most of that engagement; an asset that’s right on your doorstep.

As a voluntary organisation, you often need to demonstrate to funders how you work with and involve your local community in advance, proving that what you plan to deliver is truly needed. Then, as your project is delivered, you need to be able to show that you’re achieving the impact you hoped for, and reporting the results and outcomes, and painting an accurate picture of that impact within your project evaluation.

In this training we’ll go through how you can effectively engage with your community to be able to demonstrate all of these things, together with taking a look at the benefits of engaging local people, how to get them involved, and how to take them on a journey of engagement with you, your project, your organisation, and one another. We’ll touch on the legalities of gathering personal details and information, and how to make that information work for you.

You may also like the following events from VAST:

• This Tuesday, 24th February, 09:00 am, Totally Stoked Conference 2026: Inclusive Culture, Cohesive Future in Stoke On Trent
• This Wednesday, 25th February, 10:00 am, VCSE Support Drop-In in Stoke On Trent
• Next Tuesday, 3rd March, 10:00 am, VAST Members Mixer in Stoke On Trent

Also check out other Workshops in Stoke On Trent, Arts events in Stoke On Trent, Fine Arts events in Stoke On Trent.