Community Reporting is a storytelling method that is rooted in lived experience. It uses digital technologies to support people to tell their own stories, in their own ways via peer-to-peer approaches. It then connects these stories with the people, groups and organisations who are able to use the insights within them to make positive social change.

It has three distinct phases:

• Story gathering – storytelling practices that enable the person with lived experience to set the agenda and share their story in a way that works for them

• Story curation – the co-analysis of the stories so that the identification of the insights in them is driven by the storytellers and are presented in an ethical way

• Story mobilisation – putting the learning from the stories into practice to address inequalities and injustices

Community Reporting is a framework through which people’s stories are transformed into real-world change. Watch the animation below to find out more about our method.