- How can we create a community benefits system?
- What are the prospects for young people in Cornwall?
- How can we design a better service for people living with dementia?
- Who wants to be a young entrepreneur?
- Could a community work exchange help people find employment & skills?
- How can we present GB expenditure & benefit data to show opportunities for innovation?
- How can people do more for their community?
- Where there are difficulties, there are opportunities.
- Imagine if Cornwall was a Worldwide Superbrand...
- Can Big Society be delivered with small change?
- Challenging Big Cornwall to Design in The Time
- Is there such a thing as 'Hard to Reach' people?
April 2010
How can we reach new people about new work?
Project / New Work Cornwall
Engaging people via outreach activities is not easy and sometimes it's a bit soul destroying. Naturally, many people assume you're selling something rather than trying to help them.
An eye catching, Dott branded, classic campervan resolved that issue. We visited five towns over five days to ask people about their experiences of redundancy and the support they received.
We engaged with 151 people, many of which had recently been affected by redundancy (enabling us to hit our targets - tick).
Better still, we learnt the following three things: many people felt let down by the job centre, and were perhaps straying into long-term unemployment, many people received no support from their employer when they were made redundant, affecting confidence, every person we spoke to had no idea of the skills and support programmes available to them.
Knowledge like this leads to answers, and some of the services conceived by New Work started here.
