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This policy report sets out the case for Neighbourhood Assemblies as the preferred model for community empowerment

This webinar, led by Nick Gardham, Lachlan Ayles, and Ian Merrill from Humanity Project launches the new report written on neighbourhood governance. It sets out the case for Neighbourhood Assemblies as the preferred model for community empowerment under the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act.

During the webinar you will hear from the authors of the report alongside practitioners who have been organising assemblies over the past two years as part of Humanity Project. There will be an opportunity to discuss the implications of the report, opportunity to ask questions and clear pathways to advocating for Neighbourhood Assemblies where you live.

Co-produced by organisers across the network, it sets out a practical model for how assemblies could build genuine community power and deepen democratic participation at the neighbourhood level.

A pragmatic, optimistic, and unusually hands-on exploration of AI as an instrument of empowerment in the Impact Economy.

For most of the impact economy, the conversation about artificial intelligence has been dominated by anxiety — about bias, opacity, displacement, and the concentration of power in a handful of technology companies. Those concerns are real and worth taking seriously. But they are only half the story. The other half is about agency: what happens when entrepreneurs, investors, and changemakers stop treating AI as a threat to be managed and start treating it as a capability to be mastered. Sateesh Nori has spent his career on the side of agency. After two decades on the front lines of New York City Housing Court, standing between families and eviction, he became one of the most credible voices arguing that AI is not a luxury for the well-resourced but a force multiplier for those working at the margins — the difference, as he puts it, between matching the scale of our tools to the scale of the need.

In this Luminarias conversation, we move from diagnosis to practice. Sateesh will share how he actually uses these tools — not in the abstract, but concretely: how to prompt large language models to think alongside you rather than merely answer you; how to encode your own judgment, voice, and analytical frameworks into AI systems so they extend your expertise rather than dilute it; and how a single practitioner, properly augmented, can now do work that once required a team. For impact entrepreneurs designing new ventures, for investors weighing finance and diligence decisions, and for organizations stretched thin against rising demand and constrained resources, the practical question is no longer whether to engage AI, but how to engage it well.

This is a session about reclaiming initiative. Drawing on his book The Augmented Lawyer and his work building direct-to-people justice tools, Sateesh brings a rare combination — frontline service experience, hard-won ethical clarity, and genuine technical fluency — to the question that matters most for our community: how do we wield increasingly powerful tools in service of systemic change, equity, and human dignity, rather than waiting to see what these tools do to us? Join us for a pragmatic, optimistic, and unusually hands-on exploration of AI as an instrument of empowerment in the Impact Economy.

Racial Justice Open Conversation

In unsettling times, it matters even more to nurture the connections that make us stronger as one community.

The present times are exhausting. They hurt. Retraumatise. Yet, they also show how we are much more than this. We are one community, made of incredible human beings from immensely rich ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds.

At the London ACEs Hub, we recognise that the significant harm caused by the adverse experience of racism is real. Equally real, nevertheless, is our human capacity to endure, to heal, and to grow, both as individuals and as a community.

Join us as we slow down to face the monsters of prejudice, discrimination, and “cold rage”. Together, we will create a nurturing conversation to engage with a much more powerful truth, and the buffers that enable us not only to resist, but to persist: connection and love.

Speakers; Leroy Logan M.B.E. is a retired Metropolitan Police Superintendent, co-founder of the Black Police Association, Mark Crick works within Children’s Services, where he focuses on addressing the impact of racial inequality and building local anti-racist practice, Dr Muna Abdi, researcher, working at the intersection of leadership, community accountability, racial equity and organisational change. 

On-demand: Supporting families to navigate tough times: The impact of financial and housing insecurity and isolation

This on-demand webinar can be watched any time from Tuesday 4 August to Tuesday 25 August. You can also pause the recording and come back to it at a time that suits.

This webinar will explore how practitioners can better support children and families who may be experiencing multiple hardships. This webinar will help you:
- understand the impacts of social determinants of health inequalities on child and family health and wellbeing, and the many ways families are responding to these impacts
- better support families impacted by social determinants of health inequalities, including supporting them to reconnect with their existing knowledge, skills and values
- reduce families’ experiences of isolation and stigma that can come from experiencing health inequalities - gain insight into how you can gather and share ideas from the families you work with to support your practice.

Discover how to become a leader whose life and ministry naturally reproduce in others. Launching Church Expressions webinar invites church leaders and movement-minded disciples into the bold and often uncomfortable practice of launching new church expressions. Dave Ferguson, joined by special guest Andres Spyker, will explore how multiplication shifts from a “want-to someday” to a “have-to now,” confronting the tensions of Kingdom versus castle, comfort versus courage, and safety versus legacy. Through real stories of church planters, everyday believers, microchurch movements, and global multiplication, you’ll discover why planting new expressions of church is essential to the mission of Jesus…and how ordinary people saying “I’m available” can ignite extraordinary movements. Whether you feel excited, intimidated, or stuck in addition mode, this webinar will equip and inspire you to take practical next steps toward launching new church expressions and leading with a courageous yes.

On-demand: Understanding and responding to childhood suicidal ideation: A case scenario

This on-demand webinar can be watched any time from Wednesday 26 August to Wednesday 16 September. You can also pause the recording and come back to it at a time that suits.

This webinar will use a case study to explore how you can better understand and respond to childhood suicidal ideation. This webinar will give you:
- a better understanding of the experiences of distress and despair that can lead to childhood suicidal ideation
- insight into the ethical considerations that need to be considered when responding to childhood suicidal ideation
- an understanding of how to apply a collaborative and curious approach to support connection and understanding between the child and their family
- insight into how to recognise and highlight children’s ideas, values and skills in managing their challenges

Making Disciple-makers webinar invites church leaders and movement-minded disciples into the bold and often misunderstood practice of making disciple-makers. Dave Ferguson, joined by special guest J.D. Greear, will explore how discipleship shifts from information to transformation—and from good intentions to reproducible obedience. Confronting the tensions between decisions and disciples, programs and people, knowledge and lived faith, this conversation draws from Scripture, research, and real stories of leaders who have seen ordinary believers become spiritual parents. You’ll discover why making disciple-makers isn’t an optional ministry lane, but the central calling of the Church—and how slow, faithful obedience can produce lasting gospel fruit. Whether you feel convinced but overwhelmed, hopeful but unsure where to start, or stuck in activity without multiplication, this webinar will equip and inspire you to take practical next steps toward forming disciples who multiply disciples.

On-demand: Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse: Supporting the mental health of children and young people

This on-demand webinar can be watched any time from Saturday 31 October to Saturday 21 November. You can also pause the recording and come back to it at a time that suits.

This webinar will explore how to identify and respond to child sexual abuse in ways that support healing, mental health and wellbeing. This webinar will help you:
- identify the signs of child sexual abuse and support children and young people to move beyond secrecy
- develop practice strategies to navigate conversations with children and young people about sexual abuse and respond confidently and effectively to disclosures
- develop practice strategies that support children, young people and parents to describe their experiences of abuse and support them to move beyond shame and self-blame.