Social licence
Achieving ongoing community support for projects is more than just handing out grants and sponsorships.
It’s about building trust by understanding a community’s unique needs and responding to their concerns. It’s about identifying and engaging stakeholders early and meaningfully starting with those closest and most directly affected, and co-developing initiatives that are relevant and beneficial to both the project, Traditional Owners and surrounding landholders.
It’s also about fostering strong local relationships and managing feedback to minimise impacts and share long-term benefits with the community.
The Stride approach is built on decades of best-practice on-ground community engagement experience.
Stride has worked in regional communities and pioneered shared benefit models. We translate our expertise into consultation that turns conflict into cohesion, as well as shared-benefit schemes which drive positive change, helping projects gain social licence.
Stride has a proven track record in designing and delivering successful initiatives, with our work winning the Clean Energy Council’s Community Engagement Awards for Blind Creek Solar Farm (2022) and Coonooer Bridge Wind Farm (2015).
Stride helped build community support and a shared benefit program for Merredin Big Battery in Western Australia.
Our services
Understanding the fabric of regional communities combined with experience gaining social licence puts us a unique position to help.
- Team capacity-building
- Social context research
- Stakeholder identification and mapping
- Bespoke community and First Nations engagement plans
- Shared benefit models
- Identifying regional economic development opportunities
- Boots on the ground support
- Trouble-shooting advice