All about a learning day
As part of the People and Place programme, we look forward to visiting you for a learning day. It is a moment for the Footwork team to visit you in your own space - a few hours carved out to learn more about your journey, foster new connections and show your work to future collaborators.
It is a day to capture the essence of your project and illustrate the difference it is making. Through your stories and conversations, it can be a powerful tool to demonstrate the success of your project in particular and community-led change in general.
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What is the value of a learning day?
Share stories
& reflect
Precious space to reflect individually, with community members and with us
Make a new ally
or champion
Invite helpful collaborators who can learn more about your work, advocate for you and enable you to do more
Access to quality Footage
We will share all our recorded material with you, as a resource for you to use. It is a chance for us to be ‘witness’ to the impact your project has had on your place
Inspire & spread the word
In sharing your stories, you will be inspiring a growing network of innovators, building collective knowledge and helping to change minds
Who would you like to invite to a learning day?
The idea of the visit is to take a breath and reflect on the journey so far with you and key individuals who are helping make it happen (or could help make it happen)
Please invite
one
unlikely ally or champion
A key individual who is or could be essential to the success of your project.
This could be someone you are already aware of, or would like to build a closer alliance with e.g. a local councillor or asset developer.
Alternatively, it could be someone who has been essential in your journey as a collaborator and can reflect on the project in a broader context.
Please invite
one or two
members of your community
Local people who have been either involved in your and/or impacted by your work.
These could be volunteers too.
What does a learning day look like?
The learning visit would last around four hours and two members from Footwork will be in attendance. Here are the components that form a rough agenda for the day. We'd like to be as flexible as possible, so we're happy to move these around in any order that feels most appropriate.
A walking and talking tour
🕐 1 hour
📍 Around the neighbourhood
🙌 With you/ you and your team
Kick things off by exploring your space and neighbourhood. it’s important for us to understand and record the context in which you are working.
Perhaps this could be a short walking tour led by you.
Meeting local people
🕐 1 hour
📍 Around the neighbourhood
🙌 With one or two local members of the community
We would also like to meet local members of the community or volunteers.
Those who really 'get' what you do, can speak to the impact of your work, and would be happy to chat with us.
A friendly interview
🕐 1 hour
📍 In a quiet space
🙌 With you/ you and your team
Have an active conversation which is entirely about understanding you, your work (the ups and the downs!) and its impact.
While we have a few prompts on our end, this would essentially look at the challenges you have come up against, and how you are tackling them.
A chat with a champion or unlikely ally
🕐 1 hour
📍 In a quiet space
🙌 With the champion/unlikely ally and you
An unscripted chat between you and the invited champion or ally, based on the theme of collaboration.
We are visiting you to learn from you, and it would be great to explore the importance of partnerships, its challenges and how you navigate these to successfully collaborate with different people (such as the invited ally). We will be recording this conversation to create a repository of lessons from the field, which can be shared with other community innovators in our network.
Why are we filming?
By recording the day, it helps us gather your stories to use as evidence of successful locally-led place regeneration. We are coming to learn from you and your experience- sharing this learning with others in our growing network of community innovators can be inspiring for many. It would be helpful for you to let the invited allies and community members know this in advance, to ensure they are comfortable with this.
Have a question?
Get in touch with our Learning Lead, Devika.
For example, do you need to plan for lunch?
Only if it isn’t a bother! We’re happy to also carry our packed lunch or pick up a sandwich somewhere.