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With over 25% of children in Orbit’s communities growing up in poverty, reducing the number of those living in poverty by ensuring they provide services and homes that meet these families needs is central to their future plans.
Platypus were chosen to help Orbit understand the lives and needs of children and parents living in poverty to help them to fulfil this mission.
Workshops were held in community centres across the UK and were designed with a flexible and open approach to take into account the mixed make up of the groups and to break down any worries or concerns about taking part.
Children’s sessions were carefully designed to take into account a wide range of ages using a variety of visual, creative and verbal methods.
Orbit have used the results from the research to push forward with their campaign to tackle child poverty, working through the insight gained and some of the recommendations made by the team. This report is being shared at the Houses of Parliament in March 2018.
Platypus were professional yet approachable and delivered fantastic workshops with parents and young children covering some sensitive topics.Platypus debrief was incredibly helpful and insightful.
Rachel Dixon, Senior PR and Communications Manager atOrbit
“Platypus were professional yet approachable and delivered fantastic workshops with our customers, including young children. Some of the topics they covered were quite difficult and sensitive but the team made the attendees feel very comfortable. Platypus were creative and their debrief was incredibly helpful and insightful.
We are now using the results from the research to push forward with our campaign to tackle child poverty, working through the insight gained and some of the recommendations made by the team.”
Rachel Dixon, Senior PR and Campaigns Consultant atOrbit Housing Association
