Places in Walworth by Yu-Shan Chiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces These are the places that community members feel important to them in Walworth, since they joined TGL. en-us 2022-05-17 13:07:22 UTC 2025-10-19 14:54:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4cd.png John: the theatre on Wansey Street yushanchiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187579881 Drama based activities are a really good way to engage people and engage communities, because you get a much more honest conversation. That opens up conversations from them as well as stimulates ideas in their brain. Because they think, ‘Well, that's a problem I have, could we maybe do that?’ All sorts of ideas are flying around the room. – John, Comms and Event Advisor at TGL 

How to reach community members?
  • Community members’ personal networks (e.g. community groups; Aylesbury Estate)
  • Existing groups in Walworth (e.g. The Walworth Society; local theatres)
  • Housing associations (e.g. Notting Hill Genesis) 
Social media

Benefits of drama-based sessions in community outreach/engagement
  • Diversity: The diversity of the participants let people have chances to look into the windows of others’ real lives through their performances and discuss how they might create change.
  • Organic: It opened people up for honest conversations. People shared their experiences through developing scenes around the issues they faced and brainstormed organically what they might do together.
  • Laboratory: Drama scenarios helped stimulate ideas. People came back for several sessions and used theatre and arts to discover ideas and solutions. 
]]> 2022-05-17 13:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187579881 John: also the theatre on Wansey Street! yushanchiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187592567 Something exciting to celebrate and to watch closely as a result of the drama sessions:
  • 12 people constantly joined the weekly sessions
  • 50% of the people have come up with ideas that they could work on
  • 5 ideas came out of the three drama sessions

I think this is really good output. Not all ideas will come to fruition, but the fact that 4-5 ideas came out of just three drama sessions – if you could replicate that over the community, the ideas generated would be solid. – John, Comms and Event Advisor at TGL
]]> 2022-05-17 13:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187592567 John: Dulwich gallery - a get-away for the team's wellbeing yushanchiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187682195 What's helpful:
  • The weekly chats among teams are helpful for check-in

What could be helpful:
  • There could be more support networks or training for the team to upskill themselves - 'I'm good at coming up with ideas but I also want to learn practical social media strategy.'
  • Team bonding and well-being activities to stimulate ‘blue sky thinking’ e.g. going to the park, visiting a gallery
  • Keep track of the ideas generated so far. For example, the initial ideas created before the Covid-19 outreack. - 'I thought they were really good ideas, and maybe they have fallen off the radar. I'd be interested to hear what happens to them, because they were meant to be developed.'

I'm a great believer in things happen naturally. If we get away from where we are familiar with, go to a gallery or greenery, blue sky thinking will happen very organically. – John, Comms and Event Advisor at TGL
]]> 2022-05-17 14:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187682195 Interactive community events that helped start the conversations yushanchiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187760504 Some other community events that helped attract community members to learn about TGL, include:
  • The event with Inspire, Timberland and Sony on 30 April 2022, where TGL popped up: 'We wore lab coats which were visually attracted to people. We then helped make connections and signed people up for TGL.' - John
  • Creative events as a hook to spark interests: e.g. Craft workshop, 'It's interactive, like a performance. so it can easily pull people in' - John
]]> 2022-05-17 14:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187760504 John: Elephant and Castle - Latino community yushanchiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187777760 ‘In the Elephant and Castle, there's a massive Latino community. I haven't seen a lot of engagement with them. That's a really untapped resource.’ – John ]]> 2022-05-17 14:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187777760 John: Walworth Road - New communities that have moved in yushanchiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187787409 ‘The population is changing a little bit in Walworth. We will need to think about what that population wants and needs and how to key into them. For example, I've never seen a leaflet in their languages’. – John
 
New communities include:
  • Chinese community
  • Korean community
  • East European community
]]> 2022-05-17 15:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187787409 John: Expansion of TGL along the Old Kent Road yushanchiu https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187797590 ‘A big dream of mine is the next stage of TGL evolution, to spread across the Old Kent Road naturally into the surrounding areas like Peckham. Because the infrastructure is here, the networks are here, it makes sense to spread it outwards.’ – John]]> 2022-05-17 15:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/yushanchiu/TGlplaces/wish/2187797590