Expression of Interest - March 2020
Please tell us why you are applying. What does the partnership want to achieve and why, and over what period of time? Why do you think you can be successful? In Plymouth, our aspiration is to ‘shift ...
Journal
Stage 1 submission - September 2020
Please describe specifically which groups or communities your partnership seeks to benefit and how you will involve them in developing a plan over the first 6-9 months. How will your approach promote ...
The areas we can be certain about
There is a long legacy of work that the Healthy Communities Together programme builds on. This written and embodied knowledge and experience is held in all of us. We know it as individuals, as colleag...
Stage 2 submission - October 2021
In 4 years time, success looks like: An established, ongoing community conversation continually feeding into strategic decision-making. Quality support for immediate community action, which is furth...
Collaboration - A Summary
Collaboration: "a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of ...
Moving away from command and control
When working in collaboration, there is no command or control. The normal organisational structure is lacking. Each organisation and each individual is a sovereign body in their own right. Working on ...
Give patience and time
A long-term commitment is needed because that is the length of time that people and relationships work over. It takes time to physically reach people and to make contact. It takes time to gradually sh...
Managing roles in uncertainty
The work to be done is mind-bendingly interconnected. We are highly interconnected as a society. To get to work, we rely on the world’s people and resources to get there before we have even started th...
Systems and practices
The technical work has followed the interpersonal simply because the available technical tools and standard practices are designed for another context (as described above). As we have discovered, rela...
Humility and curiosity
This has a number of different aspects to it. First, at a very human level, if members of a collaboration make assumptions that, because of an area of expertise or worse, positional power, they need t...
Belong in Plymouth @ Matters of the HeART
On May 18th, Belong in Plymouth hosted an event at Ocean Studios to emphasize the importance of listening. The event aimed to make participants feel heard, regardless of their roles or labels, and to ...
Engagement with Young People
I've been hearing how hard it is to engage young people. "We create events for them to come to but no one comes." Belong in Plymouth used the following engagement tools with good success: - Built re...