Local governments of all sizes are already reaching more residents and streamlining their engagement initiatives through Go Vocal’s participation platform. Watch our webinars here, where we reveal key tips and discuss best practices with experienced practitioners.
To help you navigate the year ahead, we analyzed the work of 600+ local governments. To see what they are experiencing, what is changing in their daily reality, and how they are adapting.Join us for an exclusive briefing where we explore the three major trends and how they will impact your work in 2026. The insights are brought to you by the architects of the Go Vocal platform, alongside one of the world’s leading voices on digital democracy.
Join us for a webinar on the matter on Thursday, 19 June from 1 - 2 PM (BST). In an hour's time, the Go Vocal UK team will unpack “fake engagement” and explore practical ways to spot and respond to skewed engagement patterns.
Join us for a free webinar on 20 February from 11 am to 12 pm GMT. We’ll interview two councils, Brighton & Hove and Wigan, about their engagement efforts over the past year. Learn how their collaboration with Go Vocal has amplified their efforts, strengthened their culture of engagement, and led to better results.
Surveys are the “bread and butter” of consultation and engagement work - and in recognition we’ve recently made improvements to our native survey tool. However, there is an art to asking the right questions in the right sequence and with the right prompts. After all, we don’t want residents to abandon the process due to frustration or have gaps in our understanding of the issues. And there are some subtle differences between online and offline designs that need to be accounted for. So, at a time when consultations have been challenged in court over a single dubious question or the lack of a key questions, getting things right is paramount. What are the necessary ingredients for creating a good resident experience with such a blunt tool? How can we avoid clouding issues? Join us for the answers.
As a council, it is important to be more ambitious about participation and explore engagement methods beyond traditional survey consultations. But how do you start a real dialogue? When is the best time to use a particular participation method, and what should you pay attention to?
We invited planning & regeneration officers from the London Boroughs of Camden and Newham to discuss how they involved residents in the engagement projects, the key elements to a successful consultation, and how they leveraged public insights to inform reporting and decision-making.
During this webinar, we discussed successful examples of youth engagement at the local level with Donna Anderson, Participation and Democracy Officer at North Ayrshire Council, and Jez Hall, founding director of the social enterprise Shared Future CIC.
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