Who are they?
Botley Parish Council serves Botley, a fast-changing Hampshire village seeing a new bypass, new housing and new infrastructure arrive all at once, looked after by a genuinely forward-thinking team.
What did they want?
The council wanted a single-sentence shared vision the whole team could rally behind and a better way of collaborating in meetings and on projects.
What did we provide?
A vision-creation and goal-alignment session, including Meon’s own Farm Strategy game by lunchtime, followed by an afternoon meeting held out in the woods, run in a very different format to the council’s usual style.
What was the result?
New skills in vision-setting and goal alignment and a shared vision line to carry forward: “Botley, A Place where everyone wants to call home.” The morning surfaced some real cross-chatter and frustration, including a few people pushing their own agendas, but by the afternoon the council had adopted a new way of running meetings that they’ve kept using since.
