Community Engagement: Approaches, Stakeholder Participation, and Best Practices

2 Community
Engagement

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Community engagement approaches......................................................................................4
Role of communication, active stakeholders participation and inclusion in community
engagement.............................................................................................................................5
Process used to achieve best practices...................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................8
Online.....................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Community engagement includes the working together to serve society. It is important to
first know about the problems that the society is facing and then making efforts to solve the
issue. It is necessary to know about the interest of society. There are so many changes that these
communities solve (Adhikari, Pell and Cheah, 2020). This report is based on Age UK. It is a
registered trust that works to support old people. They work to enhance the digital skills of old
people and to reduce the loneliness and live happily. This report is includes comparison of
programmes of Age UK and similar organisation. There are some approaches that are used by all
these organisations to serve the stakeholders in an effective manner. It is important for an
organisation to understand the importance of communication, as well as of active stakeholders is
also discussed in this report. There are some steps that are followed by the communities in order
to achieve best practices. As the main aim of community is to help the society and this report is
based on the same.
MAIN BODY
Each and every community works for welfare of society. The charitable trusts work to
accomplish the goals and objectives with collaboration (Martinez and et.al., 2020). There are so
many stakeholder and all they play an important role in success of organisation. The main work
that is carried on by these communities is called as programmes and projects undertaken by
them. They work by conducting proper research and analysing all the points to take suitable
actions. The comparison among the programs of Age UK and Friends of the Elderly.
 Age UK: It is working to provide various services to the old people. It is seen that they
provide exercise classes, digital and IT training, Foot care, home help as well as dementia
support to the old people (Age UK, 2020). They want that to enhance the lifestyle of old
people and help them. The focus is to provide all type of support to them. It is seen that
all this is necessary to remove loneliness and problems from their life.
 Friends of the Elderly: The organisation focuses on providing home like environment to
old age people. They provide residential care so as to provide the, felling like home, care
against dementia, nursing and other services. It is important so that old people are also
able to work effectively and achieve success and growth.