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It provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/visionworthington.org\/what-is-visioning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blueprint to guide key decisions about that community<\/a>, particularly those made by government. It can also help guide how services and products are provided by community-based and non-government organisations, and how developers and other investors shape and contribute to that community.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is the community visioning process important?<\/h2>\n<p>Undertaking a collaborative community visioning process ensures the future you\u2019re working towards as a government is <a href=\"https:\/\/yoursay.orange.nsw.gov.au\/future-city-making-the-cbd-more-walkable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the one your community wants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It gives your community a voice, engages locals of all ages and from all walks of life in decision-making, and builds trust. Community members feel heard and valued. Bringing people together to share ideas and imagine a new future also builds community pride and social cohesion. It strengthens community identity and the vision can underpin your community brand and how you market and promote your community.<\/p>\n<p>A community vision also helps guide government investment and planning in the short and long term, which can then be measured in light of progress towards the vision.<\/p>\n<h2>When is the right time to do community visioning?<\/h2>\n<p>Community visioning is often prompted by one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an election cycle, where an incoming elected body wants to check in with the community on strategic direction<\/li>\n<li>a change impacting your community, e.g. rapid growth, boundary change, an economic shift, social challenge, or changing demographic profile<\/li>\n<li>the need to consolidate and refocus a large number of existing or outdated strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For local governments, community visioning can play a critical role in corporate and strategic planning, land use planning, developing short and long-term budgets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/granicus.uk\/blog\/community-engagement-in-planning-transportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short and long-term planning<\/a> for infrastructure and services.<\/p>\n<h2>Things to Consider: Challenges and Issues<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>What do you want to achieve through community visioning?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>What will you do with the resultant vision? What decision-making specifically will it influence?<\/li>\n<li>What is your time horizon for your community vision (five years, 10 years, 20 years?)<\/li>\n<li>Will it guide the current political term or span multiple political terms?<\/li>\n<li>What does your community need to know to be able to meaningfully participate in the process? (What are your key messages?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How well do you know your community?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Who are your primary and secondary stakeholders?<\/li>\n<li>Who are your \u2018communities within community\u2019? (Consider demographic, geographic, cultural, and ability factors).<\/li>\n<li>How do your communities like to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granicus.com.au\/blog\/how-do-you-engage-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engaged<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>What are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granicus.com.au\/resource\/whitepaper\/practitioners-guide-to-community-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best methods<\/a> to connect with each segment of your community? (Consider all touchpoints across your organisation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How much time do you have to deliver community visioning?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>What level of engagement is realistic with the time available?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How much budget do you have\/need?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Will your engagement occur predominantly online or will you also need a budget for community-based activities?<\/li>\n<li>Do you need a budget for marketing (printed material, social media campaigns, posters, billboards etc.)?\u00a0 to connect with your communities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>What resources do you have available?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Do you have the expertise and capacity to deliver community visioning in-house? (Consider all elements, including engagement planning, content creation, online and in-person engagement activities, communication and marketing etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Do you have an online engagement platform? Does it have the <a href=\"https:\/\/granicus.uk\/blog\/engagementhq-online-community-engagement-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tools you need<\/a> to effectively deliver community visioning? Can it provide detailed data?<\/li>\n<li>Who will undertake analysis of the data gathered from the community?<\/li>\n<li>Who will articulate the community vision based on engagement outcomes?<\/li>\n<li>Who will be responsible for monitoring, measuring, and reporting on outcomes once the vision is adopted?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How will you involve your elected representatives?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Your elected representatives can be an excellent resource during community visioning.\u00a0 What information and tools do they need to support and contribute to the visioning processes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>You need to be able to tell your community<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why you are undertaking community visioning<\/li>\n<li>What it means for your community<\/li>\n<li>What the process will be<\/li>\n<li>How your community can get involved<\/li>\n<li>How long the process will take<\/li>\n<li>When and how you will communicate with them along the way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The community visioning process<\/h2>\n<p>Broadly, community visioning involves answering five key steps to determine:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><b>Step<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><b>Which delivers\u2026<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">Where are we now?<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">An inventory of current assets, opportunities, and challenges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">Where are we going?<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">Future scenarios based on current those assets, opportunities, and challenges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">Where do we want to be?<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">Preferred future, based on shared values and aspirations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">How do we get there?<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">Decisions and actions required to make the vision possible, with clear indicators and measurements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">Are we making progress?<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">An overview of performance (through monitoring and reporting) and opportunity to recalibrate actions as necessary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Community visioning methods<b><\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Broad: <\/b>Community-wide, <a href=\"https:\/\/yoursay.glenelg.vic.gov.au\/portland-dog-parks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highly accessible engagement<\/a> that enables everyone who wants to be involved to do so, in a way that works for them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Targeted: <\/b>Focused conversations with particular groups, segments or stakeholders, via interviews, forums, or panels.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deliberative:<\/b> A specially convened, representative, and informed <a href=\"https:\/\/granicus.uk\/resource\/whitepaper-deliberative-dialogue-online\/\">panel of citizens<\/a> who play an active role in decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>A platform for collaboration and advocacy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Having a clear community vision helps government organisations (and elected members) better represent their communities because they understand what is important to them from a \u2018big picture\u2019 perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Community visions often transcend the remit of the level of government (or organisation) that helped create them.<\/p>\n<p>This then identifies areas where advocacy to and\/or collaborative efforts with other levels of government or other stakeholders may be required to deliver particular elements of the vision.<\/p>\n<h2>EngagementHQ tools for community visioning<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/granicus.uk\/solution\/govdelivery\/engagementhq\/\">EngagementHQ<\/a> provides a range of tools and widgets that help create trust and transparency in your community visioning process.<\/p>\n","button":""}}]},"posts_slider_group":{"show_section":true,"posts_slider":[{"add_anchor":false,"anchor_name":"","background_color":"green","slider_subhead":"","slider_headline":"Discover More Blogs","slider_text":"","slider_type":"blog_posts","manual_resources":false,"slider_resource_tax":"recent","add_additional_filters":false,"department_filter":false,"market_filter":false,"outcome_filter":false,"product_filter":false,"region_filter":false,"solution_filter":false,"topic_filter":false,"slider_link":{"title":"View All Resources","url":"\/uk\/learning-center\/","target":""},"slider_link_icon":false}]},"centered_layout_builder_clone":{"flexible_page_builder_group":{"flexible_page_builder_fields":[{"acf_fc_layout":"wysiwyg","add_menu_anchor":false,"anchor_menu_text":"","wysiwyg_group":{"show_section":true,"alignment":"left","subhead":"","headline":"","wysiwyg":"<h2>What is community visioning?<\/h2>\n<p>Community visioning is a collaborative process of giving the people who live, work, and play in a place the opportunity to have a say about what they want their community to be like in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Broadly, community visioning takes into account:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the things people love about their community and want to retain<\/li>\n<li>the challenges and issues they want to address and solve<\/li>\n<li>new aspects they\u2019d like to see become a part of their community fabric.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through this process, a community might imagine <a href=\"https:\/\/your.wellington.vic.gov.au\/councilplan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what it wants to be like in a few years<\/a>, or it might look ahead to 20 years and even beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Community visioning can result in a \u2018big picture\u2019 statement, a series of statements, or become the heart of a detailed community plan.<\/p>\n<h2>What are the outcomes?<\/h2>\n<p>The process creates a shared community vision that is aspirational and forward-thinking. It provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/visionworthington.org\/what-is-visioning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blueprint to guide key decisions about that community<\/a>, particularly those made by government. It can also help guide how services and products are provided by community-based and non-government organisations, and how developers and other investors shape and contribute to that community.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is the community visioning process important?<\/h2>\n<p>Undertaking a collaborative community visioning process ensures the future you\u2019re working towards as a government is <a href=\"https:\/\/yoursay.orange.nsw.gov.au\/future-city-making-the-cbd-more-walkable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the one your community wants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It gives your community a voice, engages locals of all ages and from all walks of life in decision-making, and builds trust. Community members feel heard and valued. Bringing people together to share ideas and imagine a new future also builds community pride and social cohesion. It strengthens community identity and the vision can underpin your community brand and how you market and promote your community.<\/p>\n<p>A community vision also helps guide government investment and planning in the short and long term, which can then be measured in light of progress towards the vision.<\/p>\n<h2>When is the right time to do community visioning?<\/h2>\n<p>Community visioning is often prompted by one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an election cycle, where an incoming elected body wants to check in with the community on strategic direction<\/li>\n<li>a change impacting your community, e.g. rapid growth, boundary change, an economic shift, social challenge, or changing demographic profile<\/li>\n<li>the need to consolidate and refocus a large number of existing or outdated strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For local governments, community visioning can play a critical role in corporate and strategic planning, land use planning, developing short and long-term budgets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/granicus.uk\/blog\/community-engagement-in-planning-transportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short and long-term planning<\/a> for infrastructure and services.<\/p>\n<h2>Things to Consider: Challenges and Issues<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>What do you want to achieve through community visioning?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>What will you do with the resultant vision? What decision-making specifically will it influence?<\/li>\n<li>What is your time horizon for your community vision (five years, 10 years, 20 years?)<\/li>\n<li>Will it guide the current political term or span multiple political terms?<\/li>\n<li>What does your community need to know to be able to meaningfully participate in the process? (What are your key messages?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How well do you know your community?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Who are your primary and secondary stakeholders?<\/li>\n<li>Who are your \u2018communities within community\u2019? (Consider demographic, geographic, cultural, and ability factors).<\/li>\n<li>How do your communities like to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granicus.com.au\/blog\/how-do-you-engage-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">engaged<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>What are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granicus.com.au\/resource\/whitepaper\/practitioners-guide-to-community-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best methods<\/a> to connect with each segment of your community? (Consider all touchpoints across your organisation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How much time do you have to deliver community visioning?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>What level of engagement is realistic with the time available?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How much budget do you have\/need?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Will your engagement occur predominantly online or will you also need a budget for community-based activities?<\/li>\n<li>Do you need a budget for marketing (printed material, social media campaigns, posters, billboards etc.)?\u00a0 to connect with your communities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>What resources do you have available?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Do you have the expertise and capacity to deliver community visioning in-house? (Consider all elements, including engagement planning, content creation, online and in-person engagement activities, communication and marketing etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Do you have an online engagement platform? Does it have the <a href=\"https:\/\/granicus.uk\/blog\/engagementhq-online-community-engagement-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tools you need<\/a> to effectively deliver community visioning? Can it provide detailed data?<\/li>\n<li>Who will undertake analysis of the data gathered from the community?<\/li>\n<li>Who will articulate the community vision based on engagement outcomes?<\/li>\n<li>Who will be responsible for monitoring, measuring, and reporting on outcomes once the vision is adopted?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\"><strong>How will you involve your elected representatives?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid gray; padding: 5px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Your elected representatives can be an excellent resource during community visioning.\u00a0 What information and tools do they need to support and contribute to the visioning processes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>You need to be able to tell your community<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why you are undertaking community visioning<\/li>\n<li>What it means for your community<\/li>\n<li>What the process will be<\/li>\n<li>How your community can get involved<\/li>\n<li>How long the process will take<\/li>\n<li>When and how you will communicate with them along the way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The community visioning process<\/h2>\n<p>Broadly, community visioning involves answering five key steps to determine:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid gray; 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