Audit your Community!
Aims
- Encourage young people to assess and evaluate their own community
- Stimulate discussion and debate about the places in which people live
- Encourage young people to think how they could change their community
Resource
In My Community form
View resource 
community_audit.pdf
Instructions
The In My Community form allows young people to look at their community and decide whether it demonstrates the key components of a sustainable community.
The In My Community form can be completed in the classroom but would be better if you could complete it ‘out and about’ in your local community. You could go for a walk in the local area or ask young people to complete the form as homework.
Discuss what you mean by community and jointly agree where / what your local communities are. This could be the school; village; town or a wider community. Explain that there are no or wrong answers and that the word community is a contested concept and has different meanings.
Young people can work individually or in small groups.
Encourage young people to think of ideas of how to improve the community for all members of the community (not just themselves).
Ask the young people to discuss their completed forms as a group. What are the best things about their community? What are the worst? Who has the best ideas to make their community better? What kind of people need to be involved to help improve communities?