Making invites accessible

Some people are more confident that their voices will be heard than others. We have to try and get as representative a group of registrations as possible. The voices least likely to sign up are:

1. Those with lower levels of education

2. Young people

3. People living in socio-economically deprived areas

In invite materials, we can directly address this, by reassuring young people that they are welcome and wanted in the assembly, and by saying that you don’t need to know anything about the topic to participate.

We can also send out more invitations to lower income areas - low IMD scores in the UK, or low SEIFA scores in Australia, for example. If you have resources for door-knocking, it’s a good idea to target these areas, or their equivalent.