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The community engagement team deliver a range of activities to support the development of engagement in UCL East.
Creating Networks
Creating Connections East
Creating Connections East brings together UCL staff and postgraduate students with representatives from community organisations, charities, residents’ groups, social enterprises and statutory organisations in east London, with the aim of finding ways to work together.
Supporting Partnerships
The Trellis Project
Trellis delivers a range of activity designed to support and facilite University-Community partnership working. This includes events, funding and training.
Offering Funding
Listen and Respond
Listen and Respond is an initiative to explore how UCL as a whole can best “Listen and Respond” to the needs of communities and the voluntary sector in London as they confront and recover from COVID19. In partnership with UCL Student's Union Volunteering Service, the initiative is supported with funding from UCL East, UCL Culture and Innovation and Enterprise.
Community Engagement Seed Fund
The Community Engagement Seed Fund is a new fund distributed by the community engagement team. UCL Staff and Students can apply for funding to help them build, develop and catalyse relationships with east London communities.
Beacon Bursaries
Bursaries are part of a strategic programme of activities that aim to embed public engagement as a normal, valued activity for UCL staff and postgraduate research students.
Delivering Training
Train and Engage
Train and Engage is the flagship training and funding programme for UCL postgraduate research students.
Knowledge exchange and community engagement training
In order to build capacity at UCL for researchers to participate in community engagement and knowledge exchange, we are working to expand and digitise our training offer.