In 2024, community liaison officers joined a programme run by Centric Lab. After a learning course, a grant was allocated to Support Staffordshire to facilitate workshops with 2 demographic groups on their experiences of the health impacts of extreme weather and how existing built environment assets can adapt to improve wellbeing and quality of life. Through intimate and controlled workshops participants shared insights with each other and gave consent for their anonymised reflections to support a policy initiative that Support Staffordshire created. The policy briefing was shared throughout the local authority and further internal-training was implemented to ensure the authority’s uptake of lived experience knowledge.
