Community Engagement
We help our clients build honest relationships with communities through inclusive, creative community engagement and codesign programmes.

Our experts are committed to delivering inclusive community engagement to create projects that are both reflective of, and show respect for, the neighbourhoods they will become a part of.
Our team works with people across diverse and under-represented communities to ensure projects are accessible and relevant for and to as many people as possible.
We work directly with communities to encourage and support individual, social, civic and inter-cultural participation with the built environment.
We do this through positive stewardship, active collaboration, digital and in-person conversations. Our team works with every part of the community to draw out local knowledge, strengthen networks, create new links and enhance those that already exist.

We are committed to building honest relationships with communities of all shapes and sizes. We do this through the design and delivery of creative engagement and codesign programmes. Our team use strategic devices including public facing activities, temporary events and built interventions to support the creation of compelling and realistic recommendations for our clients.
The process of designing and making a place for us is in the journey we take with the community, who best understand their spaces, places and needs.
We believe we have a responsibility to create places where people can be themselves in comfort, and places that allow people to shape it as they grow and change, a reflection of Civic’s system thinking ethos.


The services we provide:
Community engagement
- Statutory consultation
- Public engagement
- Codesign programmes
- Communications and PR
- Project management
- Digital engagement
- Youth engagement
Strategies for communities
- Local plans and masterplans
- Place branding and signage
- Wayfinding and lighting
- Public art and strategy
- Project management
- Fundraising and storytelling
- Business case and plans

Our aim is to listen to communities, to engage and create designs that hear, respond, reflect and respect what matters most to them as a result of their input.
Marc Cairns
Managing Director of New Practice

Life at Civic