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Starting out with Community Organising – A guide for organisations
There's an increase in organisations setting up with the purpose of community organising or seeking to adopt and adapt the principles and practice of community organising. A guide based on experience..
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Countering individualism
What can’t be seen when we hear + tell tales of a brave hero who overcame all odds? How can we refocus conversation on the odds versus the overcoming? Shifting mindsets on individualism is ambitious, but necessary and achievable.
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Neighbour Day
“Neighbour Day is a powerful reminder of the importance of social connections in our lives. Our research shows that when people engage with their communities, they experience improved mental well-being and reduced loneliness."
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10 best practices for community engagement to boost participation
Effective community engagement isn't about individual events or initiatives - it's about building + maintaining trust through consistent, accessible, responsive interaction with residents.
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Inspiring residents to become leaders
Everyone now works together for the benefit of the town. We’ve moved from having arguments about who should do what, groups doing things on their own, to developing skills of local people from across our community.
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When everything falls apart, can communities come together?
“If you’re going to get saved in a disaster, it’s most likely not going to be the hero with the cape … flying in from 20 hours away. It’s going to be your neighbour.”
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The spirituality of nonviolence
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." Matt 5v9 NIV. Ten “commandments” for those seeking to live a spiritual life of nonviolence. A list to meditate on..
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Feeling good for doing good: recognizing children’s moral pride
The warm feeling you get after doing a good deed. Parents can guide children by pointing out kind acts, discussing how these affect others, reflecting on emotions that accompany such acts.
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Ways to greater happiness?
All humans want a satisfying life for themselves and their children. 68 suggestions on how individuals can raise their own happiness were rated for feasibility and effectiveness. What were the highest rated ideas?
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Heroes
"What's remarkable about history is ordinary people doing extraordinary things...we never know how our actions are going to ripple over time but each of us can take responsibility for pushing in the direction of justice, equality, tolerance."
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Events (7 found)

Online - Facilitation Methods & Practice - Handling Challenging Group Dynamics
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A training session exploring listening and facilitation skills for People's Assemblies. This session will be a mixture of theory, interactive activities and reflection. Together we will explore de-escalation and redirection techniques, including role-playing responses to difficult behaviours.
04/11/2025
12:30
Online - Dignity and Security in Everyday Life
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An action-focused assembly to develop national campaigns for change. 

At Community Organisers, we have come to believe that it isn’t enough to focus on the symptoms of inequality any more - we need to tackle the root causes. That’s why we’ve been on a journey exploring the causes of things we hear again and again across our network of Social Action Hubs.
This Summer, we hosted a series of webinars that examined why there’s an increase in foodbank use, unaffordability of everyday items, grassroots climate action and misinformation and disinformation fuelling racial violence.
As part of these, over 100 people heard from experts, activists and campaigners before talking through the problem with other participants and/or doing a ‘problem tree’ analysis together.

Since then, the team at Community Organisers have analysed the conversations and pulled out some themes that appeared lots of times across the different webinars. Now what? This Winter, we will host a series of action-focused assemblies to join the dots between these themes and develop national campaigns for change.

Dignity and Security in Everyday Life | 14th Nov 
Belonging and Division | 28th Nov 
Power and Voice in the Economy | 12th Dec 
Protecting Our Future Together | 16th Jan 

At each event, people will have the opportunity to hear from experts, share stories, explore perspectives and plan actions.
14/11/2025
13:30
Online - Stories for Change: The power of stories to help us see our communities differently and listen to our neighbours
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Church Urban Fund - Join us for an hour of reflection on the value of listening to one another’s stories, plus practical ideas and inspiring examples for using stories to bring projects alive, empower communities, and uncover hidden treasures.
Jesus used stories to teach his followers about the kingdom of God and spent time listening to people’s stories. When we take time to listen to the stories of others, and to share our own story, we deepen understanding, strengthen relationships, and transform our imagination about what is possible.
18/11/2025
11:00
Online - Staying Human: Useful Lives?
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Dan Hitchens will ask what the advance of assisted suicide really means. Dan will address the profound cultural shift signalled by current legislation, marking a transition from the era of Cecily Saunders and the hospice movement to a new age where death is presented as a solution to what some advocates refer to as ‘useless lives.’ Setting the contemporary debate in its historical context, Dan will prompt us to consider how we should respond to this hinge moment for British society.
21/11/2025
18:30
Online - Belonging and Division
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An action-focused assembly to develop national campaigns for change. 

At Community Organisers, we have come to believe that it isn’t enough to focus on the symptoms of inequality any more - we need to tackle the root causes. That’s why we’ve been on a journey exploring the causes of things we hear again and again across our network of Social Action Hubs.
This Summer, we hosted a series of webinars that examined why there’s an increase in foodbank use, unaffordability of everyday items, grassroots climate action and misinformation and disinformation fuelling racial violence.
As part of these, over 100 people heard from experts, activists and campaigners before talking through the problem with other participants and/or doing a ‘problem tree’ analysis together.

Since then, the team at Community Organisers have analysed the conversations and pulled out some themes that appeared lots of times across the different webinars. Now what? This Winter, we will host a series of action-focused assemblies to join the dots between these themes and develop national campaigns for change.

Dignity and Security in Everyday Life | 14th Nov 
Belonging and Division | 28th Nov 
Power and Voice in the Economy | 12th Dec 
Protecting Our Future Together | 16th Jan 

At each event, people will have the opportunity to hear from experts, share stories, explore perspectives and plan actions.
28/11/2025
13:30
Online - Power and Voice in the Economy
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An action-focused assembly to develop national campaigns for change. 

At Community Organisers, we have come to believe that it isn’t enough to focus on the symptoms of inequality any more - we need to tackle the root causes. That’s why we’ve been on a journey exploring the causes of things we hear again and again across our network of Social Action Hubs.
This Summer, we hosted a series of webinars that examined why there’s an increase in foodbank use, unaffordability of everyday items, grassroots climate action and misinformation and disinformation fuelling racial violence.
As part of these, over 100 people heard from experts, activists and campaigners before talking through the problem with other participants and/or doing a ‘problem tree’ analysis together.

Since then, the team at Community Organisers have analysed the conversations and pulled out some themes that appeared lots of times across the different webinars. Now what? This Winter, we will host a series of action-focused assemblies to join the dots between these themes and develop national campaigns for change.

Dignity and Security in Everyday Life | 14th Nov 
Belonging and Division | 28th Nov 
Power and Voice in the Economy | 12th Dec 
Protecting Our Future Together | 16th Jan 

At each event, people will have the opportunity to hear from experts, share stories, explore perspectives and plan actions.
12/12/2025
13:30
Online - Protecting Our Future Together
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An action-focused assembly to develop national campaigns for change. 

At Community Organisers, we have come to believe that it isn’t enough to focus on the symptoms of inequality any more - we need to tackle the root causes. That’s why we’ve been on a journey exploring the causes of things we hear again and again across our network of Social Action Hubs.
This Summer, we hosted a series of webinars that examined why there’s an increase in foodbank use, unaffordability of everyday items, grassroots climate action and misinformation and disinformation fuelling racial violence.
As part of these, over 100 people heard from experts, activists and campaigners before talking through the problem with other participants and/or doing a ‘problem tree’ analysis together.

Since then, the team at Community Organisers have analysed the conversations and pulled out some themes that appeared lots of times across the different webinars. Now what? This Winter, we will host a series of action-focused assemblies to join the dots between these themes and develop national campaigns for change.

Dignity and Security in Everyday Life | 14th Nov 
Belonging and Division | 28th Nov 
Power and Voice in the Economy | 12th Dec 
Protecting Our Future Together | 16th Jan 

At each event, people will have the opportunity to hear from experts, share stories, explore perspectives and plan actions.
16/01/2026
13:30

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