We’re super excited to announce our upcoming Community Reporter catch ups for 2025!

This year we are hosting more catch ups than usual thanks to funding from Esmee Fairbairn, meaning more opportunities for Community Reporters to come together, learn from the movement and share what you’ve been working on.

Sessions will provide an space for members of the Community Reporter network to come together with staff from the People’s Voice Media team and anyone wanting to know more about the movement. Expect a warm welcome, updates on PVM’s recent projects, time to interact and share what you’ve been working on with others and a shared sense of joy and inspiration.

There will be four online sessions taking place across the year. We’ll be kicking things off in March with the 1st session of 2025, the 2nd event will take place in June, 3rd in September and 4th and final event in December – what a great way to round off the year.

You can find out more about the plan for these sessions and register for a space by visiting out eventbrite page – we’ve also included the checkout links below for quick and easy sign up:

If you have any questions or would like more information – please get in touch with Georgia from People’s Voice Media via email: georgia@peoplesvoicemedia.co.uk

We can’t wait to see you there!

Do you want to work in better partnership with those who receive your services?

Do you think that Coproduction is a good concept but not sure how to make it real in your work?

Do you want to listen more to people’s stories of their lived experience but not sure where  to start?

Do you want to find others who have the same values as you and learn from their work? 

Ideas Alliance together with People’s Voice Media are running a three-year-project from 2021-2024 looking at how we develop, explore and exchange knowledge of co-production across England, with funding from the National Lottery’s Community Fund.

We are looking for people from 12 organisations/ groups from (or with connections in) North East London to be involved in the project for its third year from October 2023 – July 2024. We are keen to partner with groups and organisations that are community-focused to deliver this. 

The project will include access to a Community Reporting Training programme and the Institute for Community Reporters web platform as well as co-production learning workshops, 1 to 1 coaching and an end of project community learning festival which we will co-create together.

The offer across the project is not ‘fixed’ –  we want to work with people who can co-create what support they need in relation to co-production, and what support they can offer other people. This will be a journey of learning together and supporting each other to develop a deeper understanding, and greater knowledge of co-production and its impact.

View the up to date information sheet below and express you interest in being involved via this form. 

Join the team at People’s Voice Media and members of the Community Reporter network as we host our 2nd online catch up of 2023.

People’s Voice Media hosts 2 online catch-ups per year for the people, groups and organisations that make-up the Community Reporter network. These meetups are a great way for members to keep up-to-date with what is happening in the Community Reporter network, learn new stuff, share expertise, exchange knowledge, find out about opportunities they can get involved in, meet other members, network and much more and connect to other peers.

And if you’re not a member of the Community Reporter network… then don’t worry – you can still come along and find out more about us! Everyone is welcome and we are always looking for new members.

It’s only an hour, so grab a brew and a biscuit if you like, log on and find out what exciting stuff is happening across our network! This will be held on Zoom.

You can sign up to get involved through eventbrite (we’ve conveniently included a checkout link below) and best of all it’s free!

If you’d like a little more information about what we’ll be discussing – you can find that here.

Financially supported places

A quick heads up – we have 2 financially supported places available for this catch-up that will be allocated on a first-come, first-allocated basis. The financial support is up to a maximum of £25.00. This can be used to cover:

1. Expenses such as childcare costs etc. that you incur through attending the meet-up. To claim this, you’ll need to send us an expenses form and receipts.

2. Other support costs such as a PA to support you to attend. To claim this, you’ll need to send us an expenses form and receipt OR ask your support to invoice us directly.

3. Internet costs – These can be paid at a rate of £5.00 per hour, or if you are purchasing a online connection for this session (i.e., internet cafe etc.) then you can claim the full cost, up to £25.00 with a receipt via an expense form.

4. Contribution fee. To claim this, you’ll need to send us an invoice and be responsible for your own tax and insurance as a self-employed person.

To request a financially supported place, please indicate this on the registration form and our team will get in touch before the meet-up with further details.