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Brought to you by Promoting Economic Pluralism in partnership with Makespace Oxfordshire as part of the Reclaim the Economy week organised by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.

🌱 TRANSFORM: These activities are prototyping a different approach. One where communities can shape a more equitable future together. The reach and learning from these programmes are feeding into our strategic shift towards spatial justice.

📣 INFLUENCE: The 61 partner activities show we amplify impact through collaboration, building relationships that extend the benefit beyond our walls. Some events also act as a conversation starter, beginning to form a stronger narrative to challenge the conditions that cause vacancy & displacement

🔧 BUILD CAPACITY: Resident-led and partner activities helped build community capacity. The free and subsidised hires were a low-barrier route for emerging groups to build confidence and income.

But, it's about more than figures. Our events show how our four missions work in practice.

🔓 UNLOCK: By opening & activating underused buildings we create places where activity can happen. The combined programme of events & hires kept spaces in productive use & put local people at the heart.

co-imagined an ecologically safe and socially just Oxfordshire in 2035.

Thanks to our brilliant panel — watch the full recording here: youtu.be/FI1hMFVlrKQ

At Marmalade Festival, we brought together leaders from Stour Trust, People Dem Collective, Hastings Commons, and Platform Places to explore commoning, spatial justice, and how change grows when the right conditions exist.

Joined by a packed room of local citizens, activists, and funders, we

built ideas for spatial justice.

From zine-making and street detectorism to river storytelling, audio walks, and long-term thinking, each event was a small experiment in people-led placemaking.

Thanks to everyone who joined us — more Common Futures conversations coming soon.

building local community connections and pursuing their first spaces to unlock and revitalise.

We’re looking forward to working closely with them across 2026, offering tailored support, mentoring and strategic guidance to help them bring community ownership to Bedminster

model through five local property partnerships.

We’ve been delighted to mentor and support Bedminster Works, one of the pilot projects based in Bristol. We’ve been sharing our learning & supporting the development of their strategy.

Bedminster Works are now developing their team and governance,

Community Coordinators & rent support to get organisations off the ground, make our buildings more accessible an&d welcoming & strengthen ties between our residents & the wider community.

We’re always open to talking to anyone interested in funding the work Makespace does - get in touch

If you’re running a community project and want guidance on securing or managing space, get in touch. And, if you want to support the amazing work YWMP does, you can do so here: buff.ly/VxKCQ5C