Community Engagement: Principles, Benefits, and Strategies for Age UK Sutton

Assessment 1
Community
Engagement

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Project or programme.............................................................................................................3
Community engagement principles and standards.................................................................3
Benefits of stakeholders’ participation...................................................................................4
Relationship between the stakeholders and strategies are suitable for engagement..............5
Engagement with the help of Social media platforms...........................................................5
Community engagement practitioner needs to adopt a forward-looking approach to educate
community members on internal and external factors that influence community
development...........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals:...............................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Community engagement is found to be the process which emphasizes on involvement
and participation for the welfare of community (Tuttle and et.al., 2021). It is the process
which is mainly focusing on enhancing collaborative working with group of people affiliated
by special interest, geographic proximity, etc. This report aims to analyse the contribution of
local community towards community engagement in the context of Age UK Sutton. This
report is a detailed analysis of the project and program of a charitable organisation. It will
also discuss the principles and the standards of community engagement which is necessary to
consider by the charitable organisation so that they can able to achieve their aims and
objectives.
MAIN BODY
Project or programme
Engagement means the framework of principal, approaches. Engagement is based on
the respect in all community member and consulted, informed. Community is broad term is
the define group people whether they are interest group. Community Engagement is a process
of working with group of people with similar interest, similar geographical proximity, similar
situation that affect the people (Corbin and et.al., 2021). Community engagement is
combination of science and arts. Arts is understanding, skills and sensitivity used to apply. It
is used for become various programme for they engage those people who live alone and they
want to busy for community engagement. Engage people provide various service help to
those people who actually wanted the help. Such as example are there home help, local
charity.
Age UK Sutton is independent community that provide help for older people and their
families and career. It is a place where the community understand the older people need,
standing up for their need. It is an age friendly palace and fostering a sense of community and
this community belongings to older people. It is a place where older people feel support and
valued. For older people engagement they trained in digital. They develop digital skills in
them so that they can live their happily. By the use of digital they connect each other and
make tem digital champions. UK Sutton hire those people who share the loneliness of old
people. UK Sutton is launched the new programme ‘Let’s Connect.