"Our Community Our Future" is an action plan and Local Place Plan for the rural communities of Stratherrick & Foyers. Completed over six months of in-depth community consultation, the plan voices the challenges and aspirations of the local community both for now and in the future and sets out a framework for how to achieve their goals.
The rural communities of Stratherrick & Foyers will be receiving large sums of "community development funds" over the next ten years from renewable energy companies in the local area. We worked with Stratherrick & Foyers Community Trust, Nick Wright Planning and the local community to co-design this in depth plan for how best to realise developments and improvements across the area.
The plan puts forward a broad and detailed manifesto of projects and priorities for how the community will use this money to shape their own future, and sets out a series of practical first steps for achieving those goals.
Over six months of community engagement and co-design ensured that no voice went unheard in formulating the plan. Icecream designed a dedicated website to act as a hub for the project, which featured animation, a regularly updated blog, mailing list, and ideas bank, where the community could share and like ideas.