How can you support employees to hold difficult conversations around ‘hot’ issues which find common ground rather than divide? And how do you build a strategy and develop training to develop allyship, awareness of ‘othering’ and how to build inclusion? If work to build social cohesion is already underway, how do you measure its effectiveness and identify best practice?

Belong Network’s consultancy services build and improve skills, enhance knowledge and capacity and are suitable for a whole range of organisations and contexts. We have extensive experience of helping public, private and voluntary organisations:

• Building social understanding by acting as a critical friend
• Designing and delivering consultation workshops, producing cohesion strategies
• Techniques for effective dialogue and community mediation
• Development of impact frameworks
• Evaluating project and programme impact
• Research using qualitative and quantitative research techniques
• Advice on adoption of a place-based theory of change and development of a volunteer strategy