Your role: Council Officer
Your assets:
 Strong community links
 Writing funding bids
 Preparing budgets
 Network of contacts across the area
Your needs:
 Ensure all residents groups can benefit from the community centre
 Increase the number of people volunteering
Your wants:
 To find lots of new uses for the community centre
 To explore different options for how the community centre can be managed
Your role: Teenager
Your assets:
 Play the guitar
 Baby sitting experience
 Good with ICT and social networking
 Good with new technology
 Football
Your needs:
 Somewhere to go that is safe where you can network with other young people
 Activities to do after school
 Advice and guidance
 To learn and develop new skills
Your wants:
 Access to a computer
 Outdoor activities
 Break from parents
 Make money
 Play music and do more sports
Co-production Exercise
Role Play Cards V1
Date: 20111109
Your role: Elderly resident
Your assets:
 Cooking and baking
 Retired teacher
Your needs:
 Company and networking
 Level access to the centre
 Low level care support whilst at the centre
Your wants:
 Reading and dancing classes
 Hot meal and some refreshments
Your role: Disabled resident
Your assets:
 Computing and ICT skills
 Programming and design skills
Your needs:
 Level access to the building
 Internet
 Computer access
Your wants:
 To volunteer to get work experience – available 21 hours a week
 Advice and guidance about benefits
Co-production Exercise
Role Play Cards V1
Date: 20111109
Your role: Local Councillor
Your assets:
 Leadership skills
 Community links
 Regional and national contacts
 Political influence
 Communication skills
 Finance and negotiation skills
Your needs:
 A space to run your weekly surgery
 Better engagement with residents
 This project to be a success, there is an upcoming election!
Your wants:
 To learn more about social networking
 To reach out to certain communities in particular BME and young people
 Part of the centre to be profit making
Co-production Exercise
Role Play Cards V1
Date: 20111109
Your role: Chair of friends’ group
You will be facilitating the session.
Please bear the following in mind:
 The first task is to ensure that all the people around the table
think about their assets (experience, knowledge and skills)
 Take around 15 mins to encourage participants to work together
to decide a community vision and outcomes for the Sunnyvale
community centre
 The second task: participants need to work together to codesign solutions (using all the characters’ assets) for a community centre that matches
your group’s vision and outcomes. This task should take around 40 mins
 In the last 5 mins, ask participants to feed back to the table about what they learned from
the task
Your assets:
 Facilitation
 Volunteer management
 Organised
 Good communication skills
 Conflict resolution
 Business/financial management
 Strong networking skills
Your needs:
 Keep centre going
 Centre to be financially sustainable
 Volunteers
 To advertise centre
 People to use the centre
Your wants:
 To create a community hub
 To use the centre in an innovative way
 Expand/turn into a growing business
 Increase community cohesion
Co-production Exercise
Role Play Cards V1
Date: 20111109
Your role: Local police
Your assets:
 Community engagement
 Networking
 Physical mentoring/mentoring
 Working with young people
Your needs:
 Weekly space to meet with residents
 To build community engagement
 Provide assurance/guidance/advice
Your wants:
 To improve anti-social behaviour
 To engage Bangladeshi people & young people
 To attract more women to the local force
 Some-where to leave bike when engaging community
Your role: Dance teacher
Your assets:
 Professional dancer
 Basic book-keeping skills
 Organised
 Team player
 Licence to drive mini-van
 DIY
Your needs:
 Space for dance classes twice a week (not expensive)
 Parking
 Somewhere people can get changed
Your wants:
 A sound system
 To grow her business
 Space to put on a show with students
 Office space
 Computer & wireless
 To advertise
Co-production Exercise
Role Play Cards V1
Date: 20111109
Your role: Sunnyvale Community Centre Manager
Your assets:
 People skills
 Gardening
 Knitting
 Cycling
 Editing skills
Your needs:
 Financial sustainability for the centre
 Help with finances
 IT training
 More activities in the centre
 Better way of organising the activities
Your wants:
 To keep your job
 To run a gardening club
 To decorate the centre
 More staff / volunteers
Your role: Local caterer
Your assets:
 Professional catering
 Business administration
 Customer service
 Organisational skills
 Drive / ambition
 Management
Your needs:
 Kitchen
 Health & Safety testing for the centre
 Space to sell products
 Space to run cooking classes
Your wants:
 More customers
 Café area with tables and chairs
 Office space
 Access to suppliers
 Space for deliveries
Co-production Exercise
Role Play Cards V1
Date: 20111109
Your role: Working Parent
Your assets:
 Care work
 DIY
 Good with young children
Your needs:
 Childcare options
 Safe environment for children
 Activities for children after school
Your wants:
 Help with homework for kids
 More options for children to use the centre
 To volunteer some of your time – up to 4 hours a week
Your role: FREE ROLE PLAY
You have been assigned a free role play card; this means
that you are able to design your own character at the
Sunnyvale Community Centre meeting. The only requirement
is that you will need to be a service user who is interested in
using and co-designing a new community centre.
It is up to you what role you play at the meeting, but you must
think about what assets you will bring, what your needs are
for the new community centre and also what kind of things
you want to get from the new community centre.
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Co-production Exercise
Role Play Cards V1
Date: 20111109