With almost two-and-a-half decades worth of experience in working with communities across two continents, Becky Hirst is regarded as a leading community engagement practitioner, leader, commentator and strategist.

With knowledge in traditional, face-to-face and digital engagement methodology, Becky’s insights are second to none.

Becky’s passion comes from taking a grass-roots, person-centred approach to engaging with communities and she is well known for her genuine desire to involve people in decision-making and problem solving that affects them.

Becky’s services include (but aren’t limited to) –

• Community Engagement Strategy development – traditional, face-to-face and digital engagement

• Community-facing organisations – are your people at the centre of all you do?

• Community Engagement Audit and Organisational Engagement Health Check

• Monitoring and evaluation of community engagement – measuring influence, process, outputs and outcomes

• Participatory Evaluation processes

• Community Engagement Frameworks, Models and Procedures

• Community Engagement training – politicians, advisors, senior executives, community

• Stakeholder mapping, analysis and risk mitigation

• Community development – bottom-up grassroots activism

• Storytelling approaches.

Please note that Becky prefers to be contacted by clients who don’t yet have their methodology determined, firmly believing that her involvement in developing and shaping the process from the outset is what makes for the most effective engagement processes.

Examples of Becky’s work can be found below.