Community engagement

Last Updated: 3 April 2024

Community engagement includes:

• empowering: Placing decision-making in the hands of your community
• collaborating: Working in partnership people to make decisions about your community issues
• involving: Working with people to consider their community concerns and needs
• consulting: Getting people’s feedback on the issues that affect their community
• informing: Making sure people have the right information to make good decisions

Consultation and community engagement database

There is information about partnership projects on the Citizen Space Consultation Hub database.

Anyone can use the database, contact us for details.

Setting up a consultation

Advice to help you deliver an effective consultation:

• Consultation Toolkit (PDF 245KB / 26 pages)
• Questionnaire Design Guide (PDF 826KB / 24 pages)

Community engagement standards

We always work to improve our consultations and follow best practise. To help us we use:

• Cumbria Community Engagement Standards Self Assessment Guidance (DOC 125KB / 14 pages)

Our consultation strategy and community engagement strategy set out our approach to consultation and community engagement:

• Consultation Strategy (PDF 204KB / 9 pages)
• Community Engagement Strategy (PDF 177KB / 7 pages)

We use the Scottish National Standards for Community Engagement. It helps us make sure we are following best practise.