"This can be the start..."

From our first presentation there were community members who expressed an interest in what we were doing and so they then attended an introductory short HIIC course with our group members, who have completed their HIIC facilitators training to deliver the course.

It is our hope that this can be the start of increased participation, political awareness and action group petitioning of our local authority, amongst others, to have our community's views influence decision making which impacts on all our lives and health.

From our work so far we feel that we are able to engage with local people with a real understanding of the genuine concerns which exist to stop people sharing their views on the issues affecting them and have a real appreciation of the feelings of blame and inadequacy that people take on from the way the media reports all the issues of our society.