the-BA : Involving participants

community x-change participant shares her views

The community x-change is deliberately seeking to reach people who don't normally have the opportunity to be involved in discussions about issues like climate change.

Two outreach workers therefore spent a number of months building contacts with various community groups in East Anglia. In the end the final panel was made up of 39 people, primarily from Norwich, Lowestoft and Peterborough. Participants included young men from a Norwich hostel and people from black and minority ethnic groups, some of whom did not speak English. Sixteen participants had responded to an invitation sent to people on the electoral roll and eight scientists were recruited through the University of East Anglia and Norwich Research Park.

Six young people were involved in the workshops as they had previously been part of a community video project. They worked with the other participants to produce a video of the x-changes. The main reporting mechanism for the community x-change is a series of short videos.

This diverse group met over four days on 10, 11 June and 1 & 29 July. We were delighted that only one or two people did not attend all four days.

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