Journalist Stephanie Grimm speaks with Louise O’Kane of Community Places and Jez Hall of Shared Future CIC on behalf of the Buergerhaushalt website, on the past present and future for Participatory Budgeting in the UK. Buergerhaushalt is Germany’s online portal for participatory budgeting and related issues,…
With funding from the Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN), an ESRC supported network that brings together the research community and decision-makers in the public, private and third sectors, we’ve published a guide for local authorities and other bodies. The guide aims to…
There are two viruses affecting our world. The Covid19 pandemic and racism. One natural, one man-made. Both affecting some more than others. People centred approaches are at the heart of building back better. Public bodies can support and enable resilient…
We’re excited to see the birth of numerous new community led mutual aid groups eager to help their neighbours. Every neighbourhood has tremendous people with untapped skills and experience. When we join together we become a vital lifeline for those…
Following public health guidance, we, like many companies, have been changing how we work. All face to face meetings have been cancelled, and we are switching to online meetings. We continue to operate and intend to continue to do so.
Our staff and associates are being supported to work from home (as we all already do), and we are responding to emails, phone calls and other contact as normal. As an organisation used to working remotely we are putting our resources and skills to serve other organisations and individuals however and wherever we can.
The safety and wellbeing of vulnerable people is our priority.
Julie Jarman, whilst working with Church Action on Poverty, created this simple overview of the principles of Sustainable Livelihoods for us. Recorded in February 2017 by associate Martin Wells, in the video Julie explains through the use of a real…
“The natural world is being destroyed and it is a moral imperative to preserve and reconstitute as much of it as possible as soon as possible.” To save our world we must stop harming it through over consumption and a…
In a short blog by Jez Hall, of Shared Future, he looks at the role of mapping and data visualisation as an innovative way to extend the reach of participatory budgeting and put communities ‘on the map’. Much debate exists…
Over recent months, as climate change has been propelled into the political mainstream, there has been an upsurge in interest in the role of deliberative processes such as Citizens’ Assemblies and Citizens’ Juries, too. An Assembly is a key demand of Extinction Rebellion,…
In a recent meeting with colleagues representing different sides of that perennial ‘social enterprise definition’ debate, we again stumbled, or struggled, to agree. There is of course some official definitions, but everyone still seemed to feel we need to broaden out…