Compact Week 2009 - Get Involved

Get Involved

Compact Week is the ideal opportunity to fix a date in everyone’s diary to promote the Compact. Whether it’s recruiting Compact Champions or highlighting best practice, there’s lots you can do to demonstrate how the Compact works in practice.

Here’s a selection of ideas you can use or adapt for your organisation.

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Activity	Local Compact partners	Government Departments and Government Offices for the Regions
Hold an event	Compact Annual Review event - a great opportunity to identify successes and gaps, and celebrate Annual conference for your Compact Champions Training session for your Compact Champions to engage / recruit Network meeting to publicise the Compact to small, BME and faith groups	Seminar Roundtable or summit with partner organisations Participate in a Local Compact or other local partnership event Include messages about the Compact and Compact Week in Ministerial speeches at other events
Communicate locally / internally	Generate coverage about the Compact through your own internal communication channels (intranet / website) Consider starting a ‘job swop / work shadowing’ scheme between voluntary and community sector and the public sector to raise awareness of each other’s roles Include a Compact-related question at a Council meeting to make Councillors more aware of the Compact Conduct a local relationship poll on your website Publish a local newsletter and circulate locally	Generate coverage about the Compact by including an article on your intranet Include an article in a staff newsletter Place messages for plasma screens Use a staff meeting or training session to raise awareness and share learning
Celebrate your successes	Hold your own Local Compact Awards If your area is successful in this year’s national Compact Awards, publicise the news locally	If your department is successful in this year’s national Compact Awards, publicise the news using internal communications channels
Get involved with Compact Voice and the Commission for the Compact	Make sure your event / activity is featured on the Compact website. Please contact Catherine Byerley Invite the Commissioner for the Compact and representatives from Compact Voice and the Commission for the Compact along to your event during Compact Week Utilise the research identifying the key factors behind Local Compacts (published by the Commission for the Compact in September 2008) and discuss how appropriate findings can be implemented locally	Make sure your event / activity is featured on the Cabinet Office and Compact websites. Please contact Jude Heaton at the Office of the Third Sector and Catherine Byerley (please see contacts section)
Utilise the marketing materials in this pack	Show case the Compact in a display showing the difference it makes to the community Identify and promote the impact the Compact has on relations between public bodies and groups by conducting a Local Relationship Poll either by post or at an event. Display the poster about Compact week and include details of your local Compact Champion(s) If you are holding an event, order a Compact pull-up banner stand and Compact-branded merchandise from the communications team at the Commission. This includes Compact-branded pens, notepads and fluffy bugs plus enamel Compact badges for your Compact Champions (all free of charge) Please note, you can download pdfs and word documents from this guidance pack from the Compact website: http://www.thecompact.org.uk/	Include display stands and information in reception areas Display the poster about Compact week and include details of your local Compact Champion(s) If you are holding an event, order a Compact pull-up banner stand and Compact-branded merchandise from the communications team at the Commission. This includes Compact-brand pens, notepads and fluffy bugs plus enamel compact badges for your Compact Champions (all free of charge) Please note, you can download pdfs and word documents from this guidance pack from the Compact website: http://www.thecompact.org.uk/
Generate media coverage	Use or adapt the various press release and feature article templates included in the appendices of this guidance pack Launch or announce a new initiative Publish local research If you require any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Catherine Byerley at the Commission for the Compact on 0121 237 5905	Use or adapt the various press release and feature article templates included in the appendices of this guidance pack Publish a strategy, action plan or report Refresh or review a strategy or action plan, or regional Compact Announce a new commitment to benefit the relationship Launch a website, guidance or a consultation Issue press releases / good news stories about work in the third sector
Twitter	Join in the conversation. Promote your events and activities during Compact Week by using Twitter. For more information, please visit: http://twitter.com/	Join in the conversation. Promote your events and activities during Compact Week by using Twitter.For more information, please visit: http://twitter.com/