Working with Communities and Volunteers

Many heritage projects involve working with communities and volunteers and Sula Rayska has a lot of experience of this. She can help to develop the capacity and skills of the members of a community in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in their project.

This can be done through:

• providing opportunities for people to learn through experience - opportunities that would not otherwise be available to them,
• involving people in collective effort so that they gain confidence in their own abilities and their ability to influence decisions that affect them, and
• empowering communities to improve their situation.

We aim to work toward creating vital rural communities around the projects with which we are involved through attention to the interaction of human, natural, cultural and technological resources. Public participation is crucial in the community economic development process and we try to support this in our work.

Rayska Heritage can:

• organise learning events,
• lead workshops,
• arrange Planning For Real sessions and
• undertake Community Mapping and help with Parish Plans