NNR Week 2024 event design session

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Equality means making sure that everyone is treated fairly and with dignity and respect. It means challenging discrimination and removing barriers, so that everyone has opportunities to achieve their desired outcomes.

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Diversity is about recognising the benefits of different values, abilities, and perspectives, and celebrating people’s differences. This means promoting an environment that welcomes and values diverse backgrounds, thinking, skills and experience.

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Inclusion is providing a space where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and where everyone feels valued and accepted. Everyone should be able to contribute and have a voice. This may mean making reasonable adjustments to facilitate participation.

NNR week 2024 event design -

Inclusion & new audiences

Learning from your last NNR

week event / NNR festival event

Take 3 minutes to think about the questions:

• How well did your team attract new audiences at your last event?
• What would have made your event even more accessible and inclusive?
• If you have not contributed to an event - how might you support event planning? E.g do you have insight to specific communities that the NNR hasn't worked with before?

Be ready to feedback to the wider group what your successes and challenges were.

Your 2024 NNR event

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Incorporating the new themes

We want you to :

Create - a plan for an inclusive event that attracts new audiences in your region.

Collaborate- with your Health and Inclusion leafd process with using resources and skill

Contribute - to a journey of engagement and the legacy of your NNR

Discussion

First, please visit 'Tarot cards of tech' and choose a card.

Use your card as a prompt to think about your event planning.

Ps It might be that you have to do the opposite of what is on your card!

How could we incorporate 'Inclusion' to the event?

How could we incorporate introducing your NNR to 'new audiences'?

How could your Inclusion and Health leads support you?

Next steps

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Thank you

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Top three priorities

We are excited to hear how your plans go.

Do you want to have another meeting like this?

Stay in touch! Here is the mail box address: NNRWeek@naturalengland.org.uk

We want teams to:

Create- a plan for an inclusive event that attracts new audiences in your area.

Collaborate- in this process with using others skills and resources.

Contribute - to a journey of engagement and relationship building over time.

From this conversation we would like you decide on your top priorities to ensure that your event is meeting the above criteria.

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Evaluation of your 2024 event

We’re working with the social science team to create a bespoke NNR version of the ‘Nature Connection Evaluation Tool’.

Your event planning ought to take this into account, ie how to incorporate getting pre and/or post event insight from attendees

We will also need you to capture basic metrics such as number of attendees, and any other feedback or insights local teams might want to gather.

Things to consider

People that can help you to publicise your event to new audiences

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We have some additional considerations for you...

Evaluating your last event

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Highlights, lowlights, and everything in between - let's discuss it and see how we can make your 2024 event amazing!

Discussion

What links do you have externally to the wider community we would like to engage?

How can you engage with them before the event?

Be ready to share your answers!

Other considerations...

What other support do you need from the NNR week organising team?

Where are you at with your event proforma?

Would you consider running a Green Social prescribing workshop day for health care professionals?