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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 4d

Across the country, communities are transforming their places. They're meeting local needs & solving social & environmental challenges.

Yet so much more could be done, faster, if more rights & power were in community hands 🌱

Join the campaign ⬇️

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@powertochange.org.uk @locality.org.uk

Community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline - We're Right Here

We're Right Here's new film sends an urgent message: community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.

www.right-here.org

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 4d

📢 "The Government is planning the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster in a generation.

But that power needs to go to local people, not just politicians.

People who really know their neighbourhoods and what they need to thrive" 📢

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 4d

🏡 Stewarding land & buildings with neighbours in Heeley
✨ Filling a historic hall in Stretford with life & purpose
⚒️ Supporting people to build their own homes in Chapeltown
🎨 Creating community assets in Coalville

The community champions of @right-here.org have a clear message:

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We're Right Here – Campaign Film

This film carries an urgent message: community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline. When people have real control over what happens in their…

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K I N D R E D @kindredlcr.bsky.social · 5d

Preparations are well underway for our next Street and a Half (SnA) open day! 🤩🙌⁠
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🗓️ Saturday, 25 October⁠
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🕐 11 am – 1 pm⁠
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📍 11 Haydock Street, St Helens, WA10 1DD⁠

You can RSVP your place for our SnA tour right now here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-day-s...

Open Day - Street and a Half

Street and a Half brings together Socially Trading Organisations, Artists and Makers for a hive of creativity in the town centre.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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We're Right Here @right-here.org · 5d

Our new film argues that community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.

Give communities the power to fix broken Britain from the ground up.

🎥 Watch and share.

Read the story behind the film: www.right-here.org/community-po...

Film by @tuz0.bsky.social

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 6d

⏳2 weeks left to apply for People & Place: Camden ⏳

A fantastic support programme by @footworktrust.bsky.social (in collaboration with Camden Council) for local community innovators who are transforming their neighbourhoods.

Find out more ⬇️

@newjournal.bsky.social #CamdenTown #KentishTown

Footwork @footworktrust.bsky.social · 13d

Are you in the London Borough of Camden, deeply rooted in your local community, with a bold solution to a local issue? 🌱

Do you have a vision to transform your neighbourhood’s buildings and spaces? 🏠

✨ Introducing: People and Place: Camden! ✨

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 9d

Are you a community leader, council officer, funder or property owner looking to support community-led regeneration? 🏘️

Join us for a practical online session on 18 November, to help you seed a Local Property Partnership in your neighbourhood 🖥️

www.eventbrite.com/e/practical-...

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 15d

Are there any live proposals to get DSIT (and/or CLG?) to create a Civic Tech Fund? An initiative to support the UK’s civic tech movement (pro-social platforms like Library of Things, Olio, Park Run, etc) and shared infrastructure for community organising. 1/n

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Footwork @footworktrust.bsky.social · 13d

A support programme for community innovators like you, in collaboration with @camdencouncil.bsky.social

Learn more & apply by 3 Nov www.footwork.org.uk/peopleandpla...

#NeighbourhoodTransformation #Camden #CommunityAssets #Kilburn #KentishTown #PeopleAndPlaceCamden #PeopleAndPlace

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People and Place: Camden | Footwork Trust

People and Place is Footwork’s name for the programme of support we offer community innovators like you to turn bold ideas into projects that deliver long-term change for your neighbourhoods.

www.footwork.org.uk

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Footwork @footworktrust.bsky.social · 22d

🔁 Beautiful GIF by Emma Harvey (Trinity Bristol) & @visualthinkery.bsky.social 🔁

The #MycelialNetwork represents Community Asset Developers who are transforming their neighbourhood buildings for social and racial justice and ecological resilience...

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Footwork @footworktrust.bsky.social · 26d

✨ “An inspiring gathering of community activists commoning for a just, sustainable & equitable future" ✨

🌱 "...Mixing embodied practice with urgent, transformative knowledge...” 🌱

What happened when 70 community asset leaders came together to share, learn & play at Wolves Lane Centre in London? ⬇️

A gathering of community asset leaders – for coalition & collective power

In early September, 70 community asset leaders came together to share, learn and play at Wolves Lane Centre in London – home of The Ubele Initiative and community growing with Black Rootz and OrganicL...

www.mycelialnetwork.co.uk

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 26d

And finally, with us at #PlatformPlaces:

🗓️ 18th Nov, 11am
📍Online workshop

💡For community & council leaders, funders & asset owners to seed Local Property Partnerships that acquire, retrofit & transform local buildings for social & ecological justice.

➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1735358507...

Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 26d

🗓️ 8th Oct until 10th Dec (various dates, times)
📍 In-person workshops

💡For groups in Southwark and Lambeth to better secure, finance and run community assets, with Stir to Action, Stour Trust, in partnership with Impact on Urban Health.

➡️ www.eventbrite.com/cc/abcs-of-c...

ABCs of Community Assets - Southwark and Lambeth

Stour Trust has partnered with Stir to Action to deliver their ABCs of Community Assets workshop series in Southwark and Lambeth, supporting local groups and stakeholders to better secure, finance and...

www.eventbrite.com

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 26d

🗓️ 15th Oct & 6th Nov, 4.30-6pm
📍 Online

💡For socially impactful businesses (or businesses-to-be!) in areas of Oxfordshire, by @makespaceoxford.bsky.social as part of the OSEP business support programme.

➡️ lnkd.in/eUTgTzYG (15th Oct- finding space)

➡️ lnkd.in/eNFYTFS5 (6th Nov - unlocking space)

What are the root problems with the property system, and what would it look like if we were to change the systems at play to support communities' access to the space they need?

If you have or are setting up a socially impactful business in Oxford City, South Oxfordshire or Vale of the White Horse, you can come and learn about finding and unlocking space as part of the OSEP business support programme.

🗓️ 15th October and 6th November, 4:30-6pm
📍 Online

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · 26d

⬇️🧵A quick thread to celebrate some of the brilliant #CommunityAssets training & peer workshops coming up!

(Image © by @visualthinkery.bsky.social)

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 28d

Some thoughts on Pride in Place, the UK government’s major new investment in neighbourhoods:

medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Drawing on a range projects we have underway at @kinship.works And hello from Liverpool and Labour Conference 👋

Pride in Place. Yes, but how?

The details will make all the difference

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Tom Chance @tomchance.bsky.social · Sep 25

Looking forward to the further detail on this, having been involved a little in ICON's great work. Devil will be in the detail of how neighbourhood boards function, how the money is deployed to build broad-based inclusive capacity in communities, etc. etc.

Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · Sep 25

When people have the resources & power to shape their own neighbourhoods, magic happens 🌱 🏘️

From youth clubs to music venues, health hubs to repair cafes, affordable housing to urban farms, local groups are transforming spaces — for socially just & ecologically resilient work, life & play.

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · Sep 25

That's why it's encouraging to see that the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods' research has made a clear urgent case for Government to shift funding and decisions about neighbourhoods to those living in them.

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · Sep 25

As more details are released, we hope this will be one effective step in localising and democratising who occupies and stewards local buildings and land, for locally-led neighbourhood transformation: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · Sep 25

That's why it's encouraging to see that the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods' research has made a clear urgent case for Government to shift funding and decisions about neighbourhoods to those living in them.

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · Sep 25

When people have the resources & power to shape their own neighbourhoods, magic happens 🌱 🏘️

From youth clubs to music venues, health hubs to repair cafes, affordable housing to urban farms, local groups are transforming spaces — for socially just & ecologically resilient work, life & play.

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Matthew Mckeague @memckeague.bsky.social · Sep 25

“[This] announcement makes clear that investment in the public realm and high streets is back as a political priority..." > really good that it is, but will be absolutely key that it can support community-led schemes www.theguardian.com/politics/202....

Starmer gambles on ‘levelling up’-style initiative to tackle Reform threat

Deprived communities to be given tens of millions to patch up derelict shops, pubs and libraries and ‘restore pride’

www.theguardian.com

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · Sep 22

✨This Friday in Birkenhead ✨

Ahead of Labour Party conf', Make CIC & Future Yard CIC are flipping the conversation on homes and high streets — and you're invited! 🏘️

Join talks with a stellar line-up, and explore incredible community-led venues that show the power of locally-led regeneration 🎶 🎨

FLIPIM - Building from the bottom up

A day of ideas, panels and workshops where we’ll be flipping the conversation on building new homes and reviving our highstreets.

makecic.org

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Power to Change @powertochange.org.uk · Sep 1

🏘️ Join Make CIC & Future Yard CIC for a day of conversation on housing & high streets. This event brings together doers, experts, policymakers & community voices to shape the conversation. 📆 26 Sept, Birkenhead

Save the Date: Friday 26th September – Join the conversation on Housing and High Streets solutions.

We’re excited to share something we’ve been working on! It’s called FLIPIM and we think it’s right up your [high] street. On Friday 26th September, Make CIC and Future Yard CIC are hosting a day of…

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Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social · Aug 26

e.g. Trinity Community Arts (Bristol), Historic Coventry Trust (Coventry), The Mansion (Totnes / Devon), Chichester Community Development Trust, b inspired (Leicester).

What are your shout-outs of councils leading this charge? 💫

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