A whole systems approach to collaborating with North Wales communities
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Beyond the Data: Community Narratives in North Wales
The Co-producing Community Narratives project was developed to complement traditional data-led approaches to understanding communities across North Wales. By working creatively and collaboratively with people in six distinct locations, the project sought to explore how place is experienced, felt and imagined by those who live there.
What emerged was a rich, human picture of community life, one that statistics alone cannot capture.
Everyday Places, Shared Voices in Conwy & Denbighshire
The Co-producing Community Narratives project worked with communities in Pensarn and Bruton Park to explore how people experience place amid social, economic and environmental pressures. Using informal, arts based activities in trusted everyday settings, residents shared stories of hardship alongside pride, belonging and care for local spaces.
In Pensarn, creative sessions at The Hive community hub highlighted the importance of accessible support, connection and dignity, while revealing concerns about deprivation, mental health and transport.
In Bruton Park, observational engagement surfaced worries about environmental neglect, loss of shared spaces and feeling unheard, alongside a strong desire for safe, family-friendly opportunities to connect.
Hope & Identity: Stories from Flintshire & Wrexham
In Flintshire and Wrexham, the Co-producing Community Narratives project worked with groups whose voices are often underrepresented in traditional engagement: vulnerable young people and migrant communities.
Through creative, trauma-aware practice, participants were supported to express lived experience, concern and hope in ways that felt safe and meaningful to them.
Young People, Big Pride Across North Wales
Across North Wales, the Children’s University pilot in 2023 and 2024 created something simple and powerful. It gave children and young people a clear way to take part in extracurricular learning, record what they had achieved, and then celebrate those achievements in a setting that felt special.
The programme worked across different places and different school communities, but it shared the same message everywhere. Learning beyond the classroom matters, and young people deserve to have it recognised.
Creative Voices Across Generations in Gwynedd & Anglesey
The Co-producing Community Narratives project worked with communities in Porthmadog and Bro Aberffraw to explore what it feels like to live, belong and grow older (or younger) in place.
Through gentle, inclusive creative activity, people of all ages were invited to share their experiences of everyday life, alongside their hopes for the future of their communities.
