Reflecting your Community – Who do we include? In reflecting your community the participants first drew up a list of the kinds of things to consider to make groups reflect our communities. This included things like Ethnicity, disability, gender, sexual orientation and social class. We then looked at four case studies in groups, of successful examples of inclusive work both in Woodcraft Folk groups and other organisations. Each group looked at one of the case studies and then fed them back to the whole workshop. We wrote up a list of general principles for inclusion [do you not have this? Perhaps Joe does?]. From these principles people then worked in pairs to do a SWAT analysis (identifying Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) for their own district. From the SWAT analysis people then wrote down some individual actions for them to take to their group. Useful Link: http://woodcraft.org.uk/inclusion Full Notes We started the session with a discussion on groups that we could include, these are the groups suggested: BME - Black Minority Ethnic Ethic Gender Religion Sexuality Class Ability Working Marriage Status - Family Unit Pregnancy status Culture Social strata Age The group then paired up to look at a selection of case studies of good practices of inclusion from inside and outside of Woodcraft. The groups were asked to pick out the key principles of inclusion and transferable learning. Case studies notes A picture to show the key principles for a city centre Woodcraft groups, based in a park.
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