When we were approached by Wakefield district council it had just been judged as a poor performing council with a bad record of community participation. The incoming management team wanted to make a big impact on the community. We were employed by Wakefield District Partnership to devise and implement their community strategy visioning exercise and to relaunch the community strategy.

We developed a brand, FastForward 2028, (exemplifying the 25 year long-term vision) and carried out a wide-scale community engagement exercise which focused primarily on engaging with young people. This involved encouraging young people to use video cameras to ask friends and families for their views and aspirations for Wakefield.

We also organised the FastForward launch event with key stakeholders including the young people who had taken part in the process.

Wakefield District Council has gone from a poor to a good council in 13 months and the Audit Commission has praised the FastForward consultation process.

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