032: Fair Pay for Lived Experience: Lessons from Bristol City Council

About this episode

This episode discusses the implementation of a payment for involvement policy at Bristol City Council, featuring insights from three guests.

Today we are talking about the mammoth topic of Payment for Involvement, part of our Payment for Involvement podcast series that we’ve been running over the past couple of months since the launch of the payment for Involvement playbook . In the previous episode, we explored why it’s so important for organisations to recognise and value lived experience and to pay people for their involvement. In this episode we’re joined by three, absolutely brilliant guests from Bristol City Council. They share their journey of creating and implementing a payment for involvement policy in a local authority and discuss the practicalities of how you actually pay people as well.This episode is really jam packed with insightful learnings from their first hand experience. So whether you’re from a local authority, a nonprofit, or really just any organisation that’s looking to engage more equitably and fairly with the communities that you’re serving, you won’t want to miss it. Want help designing a fair and equitable payment for involvement policy for your organisation? Get in touch to find out how we can help. Hosts: Saoirse Barry, The Social Change Nest Guests: Robyn Taylor, Megan Belcher and Ellie…

People in this episode

Guests: Guest 3, Guest 2, Guest 1

Topics covered

• Payment for Involvement
• Lived Experience
• Bristol City Council
• Local Authority Policy

Keywords

• fair pay
• community engagement
• nonprofit
• equity

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Payment for Involvement playbook

Books & works: Payment for Involvement

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