1. Share your comments

Every article on our blog has as a ‘Leave a Reply’ box at the bottom of the page, which you can use to add your comments or ask questions. You don’t need to be registered – anyone can comment.

If someone else has sent in a reply, you will also find their comments at the foot of the page:

2. Share your links

Please let us know if your group has a web site, blog, Facebook page, twitter account or any other links that we might be able to include on Community conversations. You might also want to recommend other links that you’ve found useful (such as other organisations who support voluntary groups).

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3. Tell us what you find useful

If you find a useful article on this site, you can use our star rating system to give it a score out of 5.

The articles with the highest scores at any given time will appear on the home page in the ‘Popular articles’ section.

4. Pass it on
Please share things with your contacts, so that together we can help everyone to keep up to date. All our web pages and blog posts include some sharing buttons, which you can use to let other people know about useful content:

You can use these buttons to add useful articles to your Facebook page, quickly send links out via your Twitter account, or add something to a social bookmarking site.

5. Become an author

If you have useful information that you’d like to share with other local groups, you might want to become a content author. We can show you how to add your own blog posts to this site, which might include text, photos, documents, audio files or videos. Please contact us if you’d like to find out more.