“Working together to help everybody in Gorton live well.” About the Gorton Hub Community Engagement Project Between Autumn 2026 and early summer 2027 Shared Future are coordinating a community engagement and system change project at Gorton Hub in East Manchester.…
We’re pleased to be recognised for our commitment to fair payment The Fair Payment Code is a nationally recognised payment quality standard for businesses. The award is designed to help organisations maintain and improve their prompt payment practise and principles.…
After years of austerity politics, there is a new opportunity to realise the potential of community power within those communities most left behind. To unleash community power, we need to think about how public resources have traditionally been, and are…
A Carers Week blog by Shared Future. Sure, we’re all concerned about the cost of living crisis. But there are some who are more invisible than most of us. Who are really struggling. Have been ‘just about managing’ at best,…
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…
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…
Jez Hall of Shared Future and Lynn Sbaih of Give2Gain had the privilege of running a two hour session on the ‘Journey of Social Enterprise’ at the 2019 Greater Manchester Social Enterprise conference. Their purpose was to explore the motivations and reasons…
One of the privileges of being in Shared Future is the wonderful people, and wonderful places it gives you access to. Like the recent Citizen Participation University in Hungary. In 2017 it was in its 9th year. The Citizen Participation University (CPU) is…
Lattice Works was Shared Future’s multi-faceted approach to encouraging and developing social enterprises (SEs) within a specific area. Typically we deliver Latticeworks over a 6-12 month period, and its suitable for both brand new start-ups and established organisations considering, or wishing…
Shared Future helped to grow a vibrant network of North Lancashire social enterprises and social activists, who came together to promote all the social enterprises in the district. Established around 2007, NLSE was an independent not-for-personal-profit network, open to all,…