People with lived experience need to be meaningfully involved in solutions to the issues that impact them.
But when organisations looking to tackle issues or provide solutions engage with people with lived experience, the engagement can often be extractive, or not include meaningful involvement, or not properly compensate people and communities for their time and expertise.
This guide brings together learnings from our funded partners under the Better Temporary Accommodation for Londoners initiative.
It sets out key things to consider when you are looking to engage with people or communities with lived experience. It also lists a series of questions you need to answer when you’re looking to engage with people with lived experience or community partners.
The guide is for funders, researchers, policy makers and journalists. The list is by no means exhaustive.
Download the guide below.
Trust for London would like to acknowledge the work of the Better Temporary Accommodation funded partners, including those delivering wrap-around support, and the people they work with, for the expertise they have shared. This document draws especially on guidance developed by The Magpie Project. Any errors are ours.
12 August 2024