How does the Council work with the community?

Powys People's Panel

The Powys People's Panel is a group of around 6,500 people who live in Powys and who are happy to be regularly consulted on our work.

The aim of the Strategy is to make sure that local people can make their voices heard, and that that local services, whoever they are provided by, are better co-ordinated.  The process is designed to empower the community and to allow local people to influence the long-term vision for Powys, and have a say in the way that resources are allocated over the next 10 to 15 years.

Citizens' Panel

The council's Citizens' Panel is a group of around 1,000 people who live in Powys and who are happy to be regularly consulted on our work.

Panel members are asked for their views on a variety of subjects.  Recent topics have included communications, race equality and our Corporate Improvement Plan.  Forthcoming consultations include arts provision and street cleaning. Each panel member is usually included in four consultation projects per year, and most of these involve completing a questionnaire sent by e-mail or through the post.

Panel members are volunteers but they are paid expenses whenever they travel to a focus group or other meeting.

We want the panel to be as representative as possible of the population of Powys.  At the moment we need more people under 30 and more Welsh speakers. If you'd like to be included and receive invitations to take part from time to time, please tick the box on your My Account profile.