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Tool: Find a mix of people for your project tool

This checklist and worksheet tool has five key areas to consider and action before asking people with relevant lived experience or expertise to be part of your engagement, project or group.

Sponsored by Better Together Collective, it builds on find a great mix of people to be part of your project

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What it’s about

When people come together to work on something they all care about, great things (and change) can happen. When you are recruiting people with lived experience for a group, project or engagement, it's important to find a mix of folk from different backgrounds, identities, experiences, and ideas that best reflect the people and communities affected by your work. You're more likely to build something effective that people want and need, and that will be trusted by the community.

This tool is for

• those working collaboratively or in partnership with people with lived experience and communities looking to make sure they choose a mix of people that is representative of the communities the work affects.

Use this tool 

• to consider and guide your recruitment efforts for a project, engagement or group.

What this tool isn’t

This checklist and worksheet tool is not a cover-all. It's intended to provide high-level guidance rather than specific advice. It doesn’t include guidance on how to engage specific cultural groups or identities. You should always check in and work alongside people and communities to make sure  that you are working in ways that are trauma aware, culturally safe and appropriate.

How it works

👉🏼 download the tool here

👉🏼 use the checklist to consider the key elements and the worksheet column to work through your approach and practical actions to address each element

Takeaway

Use this tool to help you plan better to find people with relevant lived and living experience to be part of your groups, projects and engagements.