Public consultation for Neighbourhood Enhancement Programme (NEP) won the national award for public engagement in 2013. One of the exhibitions from this consultation is documented below.
Exhibition Location
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Entrance
Banner on the outside to help people find the exhibition.
Engagement team member at entrance for signing visitors in
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Bringing different teams from the council
Visitors often have general complaints regarding issues that are not directly relevant to the scheme being exhibited. Members from other teams like street cleaning, waste collection, highway repairs and maintenance, parking enforcement, parks etc can be present. Their presence provides insulation to the scheme being exhibited from negativity towards the council because of other issues.
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Invite ward Councillors and portfolio holder
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Making children happy makes everyone happy
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Displaying construction material options
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Provide refreshments
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Use Post-it notes to get comments on options
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Engage with local schools
Gather children’s views and display at the exhibition
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Engage resident groups
Encourage local resident groups to take part in the process, gather views from their neighbourhood and present their ideas at the exhibition
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Use projector to run slide show of ideas and information
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Signpost everything
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Encourage residents to discuss their ideas with each other
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Prize draw for participants
Small prizes were given to participants in adult and children’s categories by portfolio holder at the town hall
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