How To Prepare a Bank of Skills and Resources in Your Community v5

Purpose & how to use: A simple exercise template to inventory the skills, resources and connections your team and community already have. Use it before tackling new projects to avoid assuming you need money you don't.
Who it's for: Town Team members and broader community participants in workshops or planning sessions.
Key points: The exercise has three sections — skills (yours, your family's, your friends' and neighbours'), resources (physical things like utes or photocopiers as well as intangibles like motivation), and connections to other groups or helpful people. Once mapped, the team brainstorms projects it can deliver creatively from what's already on hand.