⏳ One week to go, with the last few spots remaining ⏳ Want your neighbourhood's buildings to serve local needs, for the long term? Join us for practical takeaways on forming partnerships for town centre transformation ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-... @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

📣 Are you passionate about community-led development & transforming spaces into useful, affordable & welcoming places? 🪄 Bedminster Works is looking for people to join their Board of Directors to help shape the future of community buildings in Bedminster: bedminsterworks.co.uk/news-and-ins...

⏳ One week to go, with the last few spots remaining ⏳ Want your neighbourhood's buildings to serve local needs, for the long term? Join us for practical takeaways on forming partnerships for town centre transformation ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-... @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Power to Change is launching a powerful essay collection to mark their 10th birthday. It celebrates community power & inspires practical visions for the future, driven by community businesses. Our co-founder Bex Trevalyan is an author, and the official launch takes place next week. Don't miss out ⬇️

Our 2024 impact report is out now. Five years ago, we set out to grow the impact of a new kind of economy – one led by people, powered by purpose, rooted in place. Our report shows what’s possible when we invest in lived experience. Find it here: kindred-lcr.co.uk/news/2024-im...

Community gardens, a wellbeing centre, learning spaces, sports clubs, art studios and bike repair shop... 🎨 🚲 🌱 These thriving spaces are all part of Chichester Community Development Trust (CCDT)'s portfolio of community assets. 1/ 🧵

Street and a Half (SnA) is celebrating its first birthday! 🙌🥳🎉 Over a third of the space is now rented by STOs, artists, makers and creatives who’re helping make the space into a vibrant creative community. More here: kindred-lcr.co.uk/news/celebra...

📆Are you a community or council leader, a funder or a property owner looking to support community-led regeneration? Join @platformplaces.bsky.social for a practical online session to learn from people doing this work on the ground in Bristol and Liverpool City Region 👇 Register:

✨ Happy 25th anniversary to b inspired Leicester🎈 Since 2000, the charity has been transforming underused assets into community spaces in Braunstone, Leicester & surrounding areas 🏡 1/ 🧵

🏡 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: 1/🧵

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

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

⏳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

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-...

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

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 2 / 🧵

🔁 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... 1/ 🧵

✨ “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 quick thread to celebrate some of the brilliant #CommunityAssets training & peer workshops coming up! (Image © by @visualthinkery.bsky.social)

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 👋

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.

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.

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.

“[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....

✨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 🎶 🎨

🏘️ 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

📈 Staggering new BBC report shows scale of community spaces being lost to pay council debt 🏫🏚️ £2.9bn of public assets have been sold in the last two years, from care homes to sports clubs to nurseries to youth centres to pubs. 1/ 🧵

🚧 The barrier to High Street healthcare is not ambition or resources – it’s a system stuck in neutral. In the latest blog, @mr.place kicks the system into gear 👇 t.co/NgyJY9ymzT #CommunityHealth #PlaceBasedCare @platformplaces.bsky.social

Trying to rent or buy a building to bring your amazing community-focused idea to life? It’s much easier to make progress if you’re familiar with the language of the people who own the buildings, who manage funding pots and who work in your local authority. Browse our list of definitions 🔡

Communities are powering forward on retrofitting buildings 🏗️ But many are held back. Can supporting them be a win-win for investors & built environment professionals too? Read the new piece by Ellie Davies (Footwork), Sara Edmonds (National Retrofit Hub) & Alasdair Ben Dixon (Collective Works).

There are some wonderful pieces still to come, so stay tuned! For now, you can catch up on essays from contributors like @jamestplunkett.bsky.social, Vidhya Alakeson, and @platformplaces.bsky.social co-founder Bex Trevalyan, and more: www.powertochange.org.uk/celebrating-...

It’s official 💚 We've joined forces with @footworktrust.bsky.social, our long-time collaborators! We’ve formally integrated, so we can better facilitate & grow the movement for community-led neighbourhood transformation 🏘️🪄 Read about our ‘civic partnership’ 💍 www.platformplaces.com/news/footwor...

🏙️ Is your community working to renew your high street and take on assets for local benefit? 📝 What policies might be available to help you? Find out at @powertochange.org.uk's online session on August 27th: www.powertochange.org.uk/event/policy...

It’s official 💚 We've joined forces with @footworktrust.bsky.social, our long-time collaborators! We’ve formally integrated, so we can better facilitate & grow the movement for community-led neighbourhood transformation 🏘️🪄 Read about our ‘civic partnership’ 💍 www.platformplaces.com/news/footwor...

Bex at @platformplaces.bsky.social telling the story of Platform Places - from a series of roundtables hosted with @powertochange.org.uk to an independent organisation and growing movement of places forging unlikely partnerships to turn around their town centres.

📍 Peer power in action, supporting each other's local missions 💚 In Coalville C.A.N 's beautiful community hub of makers, creators, educators, art, radio and more, the five pilot Local Property Partnerships gathered for two days. 1/ 🧵

A big step forward for the campaign for communities to own the places and spaces that matter to them ✨🏘️ Well done to all organisations and individuals who have been relentlessly campaigning. Sign @right-here.org's petition to see community powers go further: actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...

🧱 📍How many dream buildings got away? 🗺️ 🤝 How many did you have to map, scope, assess or lose to commercial offers, before securing your community asset? Explore the early highlights, learnings & practical tips from the pilot Local Property Partnerships: www.platformplaces.com/local-proper...

"It started with a question, over Zoom, in lockdown: Who are we not talking to?" ✍️ Read our cofounder Bex's reflections on the #PlatformPlaces cross-sector movement — and how (with @powertochange.org.uk and many others) we're seeing the next 10 years of community-led high streets. #PowertoChange10

In five neighbourhoods – from Darnall Ward to Wandsworth Town – community leaders are seeding & strengthening local property partnerships to unlock multiple spaces for community use & ownership: Explore what’s emerging, with practical tips & insights: www.platformplaces.com/local-proper...

📣 Calling all community organisations: If you want more #CommunityPower, sign our letter to the Prime Minister. Our campaign leader, Sacha Bedding, has written an open letter urging the government to grant more power to local people. ✍️ Will you sign the letter? actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...

🧩🔑 “These aren’t quick wins; it takes time to build trust, credibility and relationships, before anything’s negotiated, signed or sealed.” – Erika Rushton, Kindred LCR Transforming your neighbourhood by acquiring community assets is a long journey of twists and turns... 1/ 🧵

In this essay, the latest in our 10th anniversary collection, @platformplaces.bsky.social co-founder, Bex Trevalyan, explores how grassroots collaboration & imaginative placemaking are breathing life into Britain’s high streets 👉 buff.ly/4gfEioE #PowertoChange10

A week ago already! Thank you to everyone who came 'footworking' into our office last Tuesday, with generous stories, ideas and inspiration for neighbourhood transformation 👣 Read our CEO Naomi Rubbra's reflections: www.linkedin.com/posts/naomi-...

Here’s a brief clip from Marmalade Festival. We’ll be sharing more soon, but for now, we’d love to invite you to further unpack our vision for change with us in a one-hour webinar and Q&A. 🗓️ Thursday 17th July 2025, 12–1pm 📍Online 🎟️ Free, sign up via link in bio

Just off a main street in the Anfield and Everton area of Liverpool, a small team of residents runs the lively Kitty’s Launderette 👚 ☕ Local people and businesses drop by for affordable, high-quality laundry services powered by renewable energy. 1/ 🧵

🪄 With a new name, new CIC, and exciting ambitions for community-led assets, now's your chance to help shape Bedminster Works (one of the five pilot #LocalPropertyPartnerships).

📣 We know community business works to create thriving places. We have seen and evidenced it over the last decade. We also know there is so much more they can do. This year we are reflecting, celebrating, and looking to the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSa-... #PowertoChange10

New reflections from @platformplaces.bsky.social‬ on their Local Property Partnerships pilot. Including emerging lessons on securing buildings and building partnerships, and practical advice for community leaders and power-holders to drive locally-led neighbourhood transformation.

What happens when communities start holding power to acquire buildings and transform their places? 🏘️📍 6 months into the #LocalPropertyPartnerships pilot, funded by @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk, we’re excited to share the emerging highlights and learnings from 5 places 🏙️ 1/ 🧵