Engaging and Consulting With The Community
A community audit is research that helps you to understand your community better by gathering detailed information about it. Mapping is finding out what assets, facilities and provision are available in the community, where they are and who accesses them.
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The purpose of carrying out this research is to help you explore what opportunities there might be to develop community engagement and to increase or diversify use of your church building as a community asset.
The information will help you explore things like:
- Who already has connections with your church and who doesn’t
- How to share information with and consult the community
- What community facilities and provision are available
- What organisations/groups there are who might be project supporters, partners, user-groups
- Who are the community leaders and how are things run
- Community needs and opportunities
Research like this is also an important building block for grant applications for projects such as to reorder your church building. The DAC and funding bodies will want to see evidence of how proposed use and/or development of the building will benefit the community by addressing an existing need or opportunity.