Community Involvement - LGC Awards 2021
This award is open to a single council or where appropriate a partnership of councils, or a council-owned company. Private sector partners can enter on a council’s behalf, with the permission of the council itself.
Community involvement and engagement has come to the fore during the Covid-19 pandemic and many councils have established a new relationship with local people and local communities, or groups within them. Community involvement and engagement are increasingly important as a way of shaping council thinking, contributing to service design and improvement and to responding to continuing resource pressures. It may also involve direct community involvement in service delivery. This award is intended to showcase the whole range of community involvement either related to or unrelated to the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submissions should focus on:
- Summarising the project concerned and the nature of the community involvement;
- Setting out the aims of the project and the extent to which they have been achieved within the relevant timescale;
- How community engagement contributes to the council’s wider objectives and strategy;
- The main drivers of success and the approach the council has taken.
Award entries will be judged on:
- Evidence of community satisfaction with the process and achievement of the council’s objectives;
- The depth and extent of community involvement, in particular in getting people involved who would not otherwise have done so;
- The extent to which the involvement has influenced service quality and/or the way in which the council works;
- The contribution to the council’s wider objectives;
- The sustainability of the approach.
General Entry Information
- These awards primarily cover achievement and performance in the calendar year 2020 and the first two months of 2021, and entries should have a particular focus on that period. However, judges will take into account work that began before that period, as well as achievement and performance since that period.
- The awards will reflect the fact that Covid-19 and the response to it have posed an unprecedented challenge to local government. Judges’ decisions should reflect attributes such as performance, resilience, compassion and adaptability in the face of the pandemic alongside achievement, innovation and vision. However, entries which are primarily not about the council’s pandemic response should be treated equally to those that are.
- You only have to submit a single statement explaining why you should win (up to 1,000 words).
- Please also provide a 100-word summary of your entry. Please use this as an opportunity to make a pitch to our judges about what makes your work innovative and bold.
- Please use the questions in the bullet points below as a guide and break up your submission accordingly. Some may be more applicable than others for your entry.
- Please specify which private sector partners do you work with (if any).
- While you have the option of providing supporting material, we urge you to do this sparingly, and only if you feel further evidence is required to back-up your entry. The critical information should however be included in the main part of your entry.
If you require any help with your entries contact: Rafael Younes on 020 3953 2115, email Rafael.Younes@emap.com or Jae Taylor on 020 3953 2117, email Jae.Taylor@emap.com
