Community Guide: How to Organise a Public Meeting

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Need to organise an impactful Public Meeting in your local area?

Download PMAT’s free Community Guide and successfully organise a public meeting in your community that makes a real impact!
  1. Step-by-Step Support: PMAT’s guide provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions, making it accessible for anyone, whether they’ve hosted a meeting before or not. It simplifies the process and boosts confidence in organising a successful event.
  2. Maximises Community Impact: By offering advice on how to engage your local community effectively, the guide helps ensure that the meeting doesn’t just happen—it creates real change. People will feel more empowered to speak up and take action on issues that matter to them.

  3. Effective Planning & Promotion Tips: The guide covers everything from planning the logistics to promoting the meeting in your area, making sure you get a good turnout and that your message is heard by the right people.

  4. Practical Advice from Experts: PMAT’s experience in community organising and planning advocacy is built into the guide. It includes strategies and best practices for running productive and engaging meetings.

  5. Strengthens Local Movements: The guide encourages people to come together, build local networks, and collaborate on important issues, empowering communities to push for change and make their voices heard.

  6. Free Resource: The guide is free, making it accessible to anyone who wants to organise a public meeting to address local planning concerns or other community issues.

  7. Supports Systemic Change: By using the guide, individuals or groups can gather support and mobilise others to advocate for systemic change, whether that’s influencing local planning decisions or tackling broader issues affecting their community.

Simply fill out the form below, and we’ll send you a copy of PMAT’s guide straight to your email.

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