SFCIC News

News of our projects, new reports, case studies and blogs

Shared Future CIC Response to Covid-19

Jez Hall On 19 March, 2020 / SFCIC News

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.

Community Health Action: Four Citizens Inquiries in Dudley Borough 2019

Jez Hall On 4 March, 2020 / Citizens Inquiries, SFCIC News, SFCIC Reports

Between September and November 2019, over fifty residents from four areas of Dudley Borough took part in seven sessions of deliberation, to produce a set of recommendations to answer the question:
“For people living in Dudley Borough, what can we all do together to help people be healthy”
Members of the four Citizens Inquiries shared their experiences and opinions in a highly participatory process, supplemented by community research conducted in their neighbourhoods by 18 Inquiry members.

Lancaster District People’s Jury on Climate Change

Jez Hall On 20 February, 2020 / Citizens Inquiries, Climate Change, SFCIC News, SFCIC Reports

Thirty local people are helping to develop a new action plan to tackle one of the biggest issues facing the world today – climate change. Lancaster City Council has convened a People’s Jury on climate change, a pioneering way of involving ordinary people in advising the council and others on how best to combat the problem. Shared Future CIC are facilitating the Peoples’ Jury, which is being held at the Storey Institute in Lancaster over February and March 2020

Demanding the Impossible? SFCIC celebrates its first 10 years

Jez Hall On 16 December, 2019 / SFCIC Blogs, SFCIC News, SFCIC Reports

It’s the season to be celebrating with our friends, neighbours and families. As we wrap up another year ( and it’s the 10th Christmas since we formed Shared Future CIC) we have been reflecting on what has changed, and why the idea of a shared future remains close to our heart. Together we are stronger.

Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury November 2019

Jayne McFadyen On 25 November, 2019 / Citizens Inquiries, Climate Change, SFCIC News, SFCIC Reports

‘What should Leeds do about the emergency of climate change?’ This was the question that 25 randomly selected residents from across the Leeds city region agreed to thrash out over nine sessions between September and November 2019. Their bold recommendations make fascinating reading; taking back control of the local bus services into public ownership, the halting of local airport expansion, retrofitting of housing through local social enterprises and more.

Does Participatory Budgeting always require a vote?

Jez Hall On 20 November, 2019 / Participatory Budgeting, SFCIC Blogs, SFCIC News

There is a very real desire to make Participatory Budgeting more deliberative and thoughtful. One of the concerns about voting is that it doesn’t force people to think through the options. That PB needs more deliberation. Nevertheless Jez Hall of PB Partners/Shared Future CIC argues that the vote is crucial for legitimacy and trust within a PB processes.

Report of Our Money Our Planet Workshops

Jez Hall On 28 October, 2019 / Climate Change, Participatory Budgeting, SFCIC News, SFCIC Reports

There is overwhelming evidence that we are in a climate emergency. Government can seem paralysed in the face of this complex issue. This report outlines some possible ways to make some progress, based on our experience and knowledge of participatory approaches, which put citizens into the driving seat of decision-making whilst improving transparency and governance at a local authority level.

Deliberative Commissioning, 2nd July, Manchester: Resource page

Jez Hall On 4 July, 2019 / Citizens Inquiries, SFCIC News, SFCIC Resources

Presentations at Deliberative commissioning

At our free afternoon event on Tuesday 2nd July in Central Manchester, running during National Co-Production Week (1st-5th July 2019) we offered an opportunity for Health and Social Care professionals to learn about citizens inquiries, juries and assemblies and explore their increasing relevance to person-centred health care and towards supporting effective co-production. Download the event resources on this page

Reframing care for our world as participatory people-led politics

Jez Hall On 9 June, 2019 / Climate Change, SFCIC Blogs, SFCIC News

“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.” In this blog Jez Hall discusses how re-framing the debate on climate change is about how we build a fairer, greener, and political ‘shared future’. One where dialogue, social action and a people powered democracy is our new normal.