You’ve probably heard the quote ‘There is nothing permanent, except change.’ It was apparently first used by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus in around 500 BCE, so its definitely a phrase that’s got legs and it seems as relevant as ever today.

Over the past year or two, we’ve been invited by several CLD teams and partnerships to deliver workshops on analysing community needs in the rapidly changing world in which we live.

Knowing and understanding the communities in which we work is obviously one of the building blocks of CLD practice, so these sessions have never been about starting from scratch. Instead they’ve been an opportunity for participants to reflect on the ever changing dynamics of communities and share their experiences and knowledge about working with communities to identify and agree shared needs and priorities.

One of the tools we’ve used in these workshops has been an Community Needs Analysis Example Checklist

If you would like to know more about this area of professional learning then please do contact  the team.

John Galt