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Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Community Dynamics
Succession
Succession is the repeatable change in community composition through time
following a disturbance.
Community action is any activity that increases the understanding, engagement and
empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of local services.
Community action is about putting communities at the heart of their own local
services. Involving communities in the design and delivery of services can help to
achieve a number of objectives, including:
Building community and social capacity – helping the community to share knowledge,
skills and ideas.
Community resilience – helping the community to support itself.
Prevention – a focus on early access to services or support, engagement in design,
cross-sector collaboration and partnerships.
Maintaining and creating wealth – for example helping people into employment or
developing community enterprises.
The role the community plays can include community consultation, joint planning,
joint design, joint delivery and community-led activities.
The types of activity can include:
Asset transfer (either through formal transfer to bodies such as parish councils or
community interest companies, or transfer of their management to local community
and voluntary groups).
Making better use of physical resources, such as council-owned buildings, to support
community-led activities.
Community engagement in decision-making (for example through public
engagement events where the community helps to decide local priorities, co-design
or co-commission services).
Community networks
Community grants