Too often, community power is held back by outdated ideas and assumptions. In our new essay collection, Caitlin Prowle, @coopparty.party.coop, argues that we must disrupt "the statist mindset that too often sees community concerns as less important." Read her essay: www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/s...

Our new essay collection explores Labour’s relationship to the politics of community. In her essay, MP @kirstymcneill.bsky.social writes: “long-term, relational, power-building work should be our guide as we navigate the 2nd year of this still-young Labour government.” 🧵 1/2

We’ve brought the Museum of Broken Dreams to the #LabourConference to tell the government that communities want the power to make change happen in their neighbourhoods. Our Director gives a rundown of what we tried to achieve this week and why we need your help. 🧵 1/2

We're really pleased to be a part of an important new initiative: A Nation of Neighbours. As @pollycurtis.bsky.social and @mds49.bsky.social write, "We need to flip the script. Enable the communities that are already leading to shape the national agenda — not the other way around."

Today, Charlotte Hollins from Fordhall Farm in Shropshire spoke to the Minister for Care, Stephen Kinnock, about their community covenant in Market Drayton. Here, community members have come together with local organisations & Shropshire Council to design a Family Hub for their neighbourhood.

We’re thrilled to launch a new essay collection with @uclpolicylab.bsky.social & @powertochange.org.uk, that calls on Labour to re-embrace communitarianism: politics with communities at its heart. Read the full collection of thought-provoking essays: www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/s...

We’re taking the Museum of Broken Dreams to the #LabourConference next week. 🗓️ 29/9 at Revolución de Cuba, open to all. Our community leaders will attend the conference to call for #CommunityPoweredPolitics – thanks to @powertochange.org.uk ☕ Get in touch for a chat: Email: [email protected]

We welcome today’s news that the government will funnel funding directly to 330 disadvantaged communities through a new 'Pride in Place' programme. BUT it’s vital that decisions about how to use this funding and these powers are genuinely community-led. news.sky.com/story/pm-to-... #CommunityPower

📣 This year at #LabourConference, we're joined by 7 community business leaders from across Liverpool & the country putting voices of communities at the centre of political debate. 👋 Meet them here: buff.ly/TIJ0uzj 🥧 Join us all at our drinks reception: buff.ly/0oYQG6i

A dream fulfilled: In the 1980s, private developers were itching to monopolise London’s South Bank. Locals fought back & won a radically different future. @coinstreet.bsky.social is a rare success story, led by locals who defied the odds - featured in our Museum of Broken Dreams. arcg.is/0K9SvG1

💔 Hartlepool’s broken dream: a one-stop shop for community business, education & wellbeing. When a local enterprise centre went up for sale, Wharton Trust whipped up plans to make it community-led. But without the council’s backing, their dream remains in limbo. Read their story: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

Parliament invited our campaign leader to provide his perspective on the English #Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill. With 4 in 5 UK adults feeling powerless over decisions that affect their areas, the Bill could turn the tide on mass discontent. But only if it delivers communtiy power.

💔 Gipton’s broken dream: a joyful, shared community garden to grow food and host events. A community came incredibly close to growing their dream garden. Then the bad news hit. Poor communication between council departments had shut down their project. Full story: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

💔 Chapeltown’s broken dream: Working-class communities building homes while learning a trade. BBC Radio Leeds interviewed the Founder of Frontline Self-Build, Claude Hendrickson, whose project features in our Museum of Broken Dreams. Visit the online exhibition: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

We spoke with MPs about strengthening the English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill so it shifts real power to communities. Thanks to @joplatt.bsky.social @johnmilnehorsham.bsky.social @patrickhurley.bsky.social @rozsavage.bsky.social @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social for backing community power!

Huge thanks @rozsavage.bsky.social for helping us to inject the voices of communities right into the heart of Westminster through our Museum of Broken Dreams 💔 See the online exhibition here: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

💔 Woking’s broken dream: A safe space for the community to come together to enjoy art & music. For 10 years, Phoenix Cultural Centre burned bright in Woking, but after a long battle to find a home, its doors will close this winter. Visit the Museum of Broken Dreams: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

What a week! MPs from across the UK visited our Museum of Broken Dreams in Parliament, seeing for themselves why more #CommunityPower is vital for their constituents. Thanks to all of you for inviting your MPs. And thanks to Roz Savage MP for hosting. Enter the online exhibition: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

Today is the last chance for MPs to visit the Museum of Broken Dreams in Parliament. The exhibition displays shelved community projects like Two Fifty & Four’s plan for a skate hub in Greenwich. Instead of a skate park, the land was bought by a private developer and remains empty. arcg.is/0K9SvG1

Great to see MPs supporting a #Devolution Bill that delivers real #CommunityPower during the Parliament debate yesterday. 👏 Thanks to MP Jonathan Brash for his shout-out to our campaign. Invite your MP to visit our Museum of Broken Dreams in Parliament this week: actionnetwork.org/letters/invi...

"Communities like mine don't lack ideas. We lack power." Great op-ed in The MJ by Hannah Sloggett from Nudge Community Builders, whose unfulfilled project to create supported living for young people without family support is on display in our Museum of Broken Dreams.

💔 Nudge Community Builders' broken dream: A home for young people with no family support. Nudge planned affordable, supported living where young adults without safety nets could thrive. But their project is stuck in limbo due to systemic barriers. Visit the Museum of Broken Dreams: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

We're at the Museum of Broken Dreams in Westminster with @right-here.org, seeing what could be achieved if only communities were trusted. Take a look at the stories of community-led projects that could have transformed Britain 👉 arcg.is/0K9SvG1 @lucysym.bsky.social

MPs are back in Westminster today and so are @right-here.org - launching their Museum of Broken Dreams, charting some of the many ambitious community projects that have been stymied by a lack of support, investment, trust that communities can deliver what their places need.

The Museum of Broken Dreams opens today in Parliament. An exhibition of community-led projects that could have transformed Britain. The Museum reveals the depth of wasted potential in our country & makes the case for more #CommunityPower. View the exhibition: arcg.is/0K9SvG1

Museum of Broken Dreams opens in Parliament next week. Community projects that could have built homes, created jobs & improved health lie broken, not from lack of vision but lack of power. Show MPs why empowering communities is the smart thing to do. Invite yours: actionnetwork.org/letters/invi...

Help show MPs what could be achieved if local people had more power to shape their futures. 💔 The Museum of Broken Dreams opens in September in Parliament, sharing stories of community-led projects blocked by red tape & bureaucracy. Invite your MP with this email: buff.ly/9JwULb9 @right-here.org

The UK’s first Community Covenant pilot is underway in Market Drayton. Community groups & council reps are sitting down as equals to make decisions together, starting with a new Community & Family Hub. Could this be a new blueprint for better local governance?

💔 The Museum of Broken Dreams opens in Parliament this September, telling the stories of bold community-led projects blocked by red tape and bureaucracy. 🎟️ Invite your MP to visit and see first-hand the lost potential in our communities. Use the email template: actionnetwork.org/letters/invi...

Greater Manchester’s Live Well programme is doing what more combined and local authorities should: backing trusted local leaders like Leah Chikamba-Mulando to deliver health and wellbeing services in a way that works for their particular community. www.right-here.org/communities-... #CommunityPower

“How do we enable each community to lead & deliver the change it needs?“ This is the new question that Vidhya Alakeson, Deputy Chief of Staff to the PM, calls on the government to ask. Social change comes from backing local leaders. @powertochange.org.uk www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

A timely blog by @wearenewlocal.bsky.social advocates for “new forms of community leadership and governance" to be explored as part of the government’s #devolution agenda. “There should be a greater openness to local innovation over national prescription.” www.newlocal.org.uk/articles/loc...

Greater Manchester is rewriting the rules to put communities in charge. The Live Well initiative in Greater Manchester is reshaping how local authorities engage with people by putting power & funds into communities’ hands. Read our conversation with Live Well.

The government must harness the energy & expertise already residing in communities. Our article in @renewaljournal.bsky.social urges the government to address widespread distrust in politics by giving local people an equal voice in decision-making. renewal.org.uk/blog/labour-... #CommunityPower

“I said if something doesn’t change, there will be civil disorder in this country,” Sacha Bedding tells @roswynnejones.bsky.social, reflecting on last year's riots. "In order to fix the foundations of our democracy, we must act boldly and do things differently." 🔗https://shorturl.at/hx9O6

On Times Radio, @jonathanbrashmp.bsky.social backs our campaign’s call to put genuine decision-making power into communities’ hands. 👏🎧 Yesterday, we delivered a letter to No.10 Downing Street signed by 350 community orgs & campaign groups, urging real action to unlock the power of our communities.

Today, over 350 community leaders delivered a stark warning: our democracy is in crisis. Ahead of the anniversary of last year’s riots, we handed in an open letter to No.10 warning that without action to address widespread feelings of disempowerment, we could see more social unrest. 🧵 1/3

Fantastic to see article by Dom Ford, Worthing Cllr, in The MJ this week, sharing how his council has pioneered a new model in which communities help shape their own futures. And it’s working. 🔗Read here: edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader... (page 18)

Next week we’re taking the call for community power to Downing Street with our Community Leaders. Does your organisation believe local decisions should be made WITH local people, not to them? Sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...

New article by our Director Rich Bell and @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @powertochange.org.uk in @renewaljournal.bsky.social 👇

What does the new English Devolution and Community Empowerment deliver for communities – and what’s missing? Find out in our new blog: www.right-here.org/will-the-eng... TLDR - it’s a good start but the Bill must include more power for communities to shape services and spending decisions.

How can we move from a rhetoric of localism to active community power? Join us and @localis.bsky.social for a webinar exploring the enablers and barriers to #CommunityPower in the UK. 🗓️ 22 July 👉 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dda32e... @evefrancisholt.bsky.social #DoWith

It’s a big day for our campaign: the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill landed in Parliament a few hours ago. Here’s what it means for communities: 1/5 🧵 #CommunityPoweredPolitics

#DoWith North West is a half-day event designed to help shape the future direction of the Do With movement in the region. Our campaign leader Inayat Omarji will speak at the event, hosted by @vsnw.bsky.social & @thekingsfund.bsky.social. 🗓️ 14 July 👉 Register:

Key figures inside the government believe that unlocking community power is the key to tackling division & distrust. We agree, but we want to see policy action to back up the rhetoric. Will this week's #Devolution Bill pass that test? Piece by @catneilan.bsky.social

@locality.org.uk's‬ Keep It Local Award celebrates local authorities that have forged strong partnerships with local community organisations. There’s one week left to apply.🏆 locality.org.uk/events/event...

We had a great session at the @local.gov.uk conference yesterday on building community-powered public services. We’re calling for the upcoming English Devolution Bill to enable strong partnership working between local government & community groups. More here: www.right-here.org/asks/ #LGAConf25

📣 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...

Congratulations to @powertochange.org.uk on their 10th anniversary! A decade of fantastic work backing community businesses. 👏💛

🚨 JUST IN: Our Campaign Leaders Charlotte Hollins & Claude Hendrickson on the ‪@carboncopyeco.bsky.social‬ podcast! They’re talking all things community power, check it out here: shows.acast.com/620253d376b4... #CommunityPoweredPolitics