We are pleased to announce that the Eventbrite booking links for the Community Reporting Online Session and Coaching Programme as part of the Not Another Co-Production project are now ready! 

The full listings are detailed below. Please book quickly as places are limited. All sessions are on Zoom and links will be provided upon booking. 

Online Sessions – These sessions are open to anyone living and or working in West Midlands

Audio recording & audio editing – #NACP Workshop

Friday 3^rd March 2023, 10:00am – 11:30am

Video recording & video editing – #NACP Workshop

Friday 10^th March 2023, 10:00am – 11:30am

Digital Tools For Co-Production #NACP Workshop

Tuesday 14th March 2023, 10:00am – 11:30am

NARRATIVES OF IMPACT PROJECT – CO-CREATING A NEW VIDEO GUIDE TOOLKIT WITH EU PARTNERS IN BERLIN

Getting together with our European partners on the Narratives of Impact project is always interesting, productive and dare I say it, fun.

The last meeting we had in Berlin in May was all of the above and more. As part of the project, we are co-creating video guides to go into a ‘toolkit’ for Third Sector organisations to use storytelling as a way of measuring impact. 

In Berlin we ran a ‘living lab’. This is where we test and try approaches and methodologies out. This living lab focused on planning the video guides to be ready to film in July – September.

We spent 2 days at the Atelier Talk Studio. This is an art and design studio and it was certainly the right environment to get creative and to visualise the video guides. Together we worked on scripts, storyboards and generally planned the video production. Leon, one of PVM’s tech wizards joined us online and gave everyone a super presentation in the do’s and don’ts of video production. 

Challenges we have with co-creating video guides in this way are ensuring that they have a consistent design and look. Getting together to plan is a way to check that we are all on the same page.

It was satisfying to come away with a sense of achievement and know that we are all ready, nearly, to start to film.

Kath Peters – PVM Narratives of Impact project manager

Every year PVM have 2 meet ups with the Community Reporters. This is a chance for PVM to update the Community Reporters with news, opportunities, and developments and to find out what they have been up to and to get feedback from them. 

In September we had our second meeting of the year. The meet up took place online and we update the attendees of the work we have been doing developing our anti-racist commitments and the actions that we are taking to ensure that they are part of PVM’s everyday work, so they won’t be just words without substance.

Actions that we have taken so far –

• using anti-racism as examples in our Responsible Practice training
• increased the diversity of our board members
• increased the visual representation on our website and in the visual content that we gather, use and share.

As well as updating the Community Reporters it’s also a chance to gain feedback. This was positive and powerful with people saying how important it is to have a place of support and solidarity for people to come together to discuss, offload, and support each other. This brought about the idea of creating a regular support group. It was just the beginning of an idea, but we shall be exploring it further.

We also talked about the feedback, reflections and actions from the ICR conference that took place in the spring and discussed how we can take these ideas forward to shape next years conference.

The next online meet up for the ICR will be Thursday 24th of March 2022 from 12:00 – 1:00pm

Sign up through Eventbrite here.

Kath Peters – PVM Project Manager

PVM have been working alongside Camden Disability Action training participants in Community Reporting. Collecting lived experiences of employment and the workplace with people who have Disabilities and/or long-term health conditions. 

This source of lived experience is the starting point of a co-production process with Camden council and to kick this off PVM and Camden Disability Action facilitated an online ‘Conversation of Change’ workshop.

During this workshop a short film was shown of the stories that were gathered during the Community Reporting process. These powerful stories of lived experience became the starting point for Camden residents and service providers to get together and plant the seeds of change in their local area. 

The workshop allowed everyone to reflect on the stories they had heard, relating them to their own life experiences and this was the focus of discussion in small groups.

Helping everyone to ‘shoot for the moon’ the workshop opened up the idea of the ‘dreamer state’. Posing the question ‘If you could have a dream service what would it look like?’ This approach inspired people to think a little bit out of the box. By the end of the workshop people had come up with initial ideas that of services that had imagination and gave hope.  

Camden Disability Action, the local Disabled resident’s and the council will now be collaborating and co-creating a local service together ensuring that the services are led by people who are Disabled or have long term health conditions and using these initial ideas as the foundation.

Kath Peters – PVM Project Manager

PVM have been working alongside Camden Disability Action training participants in Community Reporting. Collecting lived experiences of employment and the workplace with people who have Disabilities and/or long-term health conditions. 

This wealth of lived experience will be the starting point of a co-production process with Camden council. 

To kick start this off PVM and Camden Disability Action is facilitating a ‘Conversation of Change’ workshop on Sept 9^th from 1pm – 4pm where Camden residents and service providers will get together to make positive changes for the future. 

This workshop will explore the lived experience stories relating to employment of Disabled residents and people with long-term health conditions in Camden. Using the themes and topics from these stories, together we will come-up with initial ideas for a new employment service for Disabled people and those with long term health conditions.

Specifically, in this participatory workshop we will:

• Listen to Disabled peoples and people with long term health conditions experiences of employment and employment support
• Reflect on these stories and explore our own experiences
• Identify ideas about how employment provision and support into employment can be practically improved for Disabled people and people with long term health conditions in Camden.

British Sign Language interpretation and live (auto-generated) captioning will be used throughout the event.

This will be an online event held on Zoom. The links and details about how to join will be sent upon registration. Registration will be open until 5pm on the 7^th September.

If you are interested in attending, please register here.

If you would like further information about the event or assistance with registering contact Tom on 07908746927 or tom@camdendisabilityaction.org.uk