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What would it look like for communities to have real power in shaping their neighbourhoods?

Following the passage of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act, new neighbourhood governance arrangements are being rolled out across the country. Join Community Organisers and We're Right Here for these FREE webinar, which is a practical, interactive session exploring what this means in practice.

We’ll introduce the core principles behind community-powered governance, discuss real-world examples like Community Covenants, Neighbourhood Assemblies, and Popular Assemblies run through Humanity Project, and create space to reflect on what this could look like in your area. This webinar is for anyone interested in sharing power more meaningfully at a local level.

Stronger Things is an annual opportunity to get together with the changemakers in place: local government, health partners, VCSEs, funders and the voluntary sector all under one roof for a day of inspiration, connection and learning – all focused on imagining and delivering community power in places across the UK.
Sessions include; How do we build local economies that work for people and place? Putting neighbours back into neighbourhoods. How can place-based budgeting help us build the public sector of the future? What does it take to sustain community-led initiative? How do we create the conditions for rigorous and actionable learning in place-based working? Exploring personal stories to strengthen community bonds. Digital frontiers in resident-led policymaking. Making Neighbourhood Health Neighbourhood-Led.
 

Bringing groups of people together with shared interests and building bridges between different groups. This webinar will be led by Nick Gardham in Partnership with the Jo Cox Foundation, who lead The Great Get Together, an annual celebration bringing communities together.
One of the key parts of our Community Organising Framework is connecting communities. We will hear stories of how we have done this as part of our work within the community and how by doing this you realise that, as Jo Cox once said “we are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.”
We will hear from our colleagues and friends at the Jo Cox Foundation about the work they do to connect communities across the UK as part of their annual Great Get Together in June and the stories of connection they hear up and down the country as part of their More in Common Network.