For everyone who’s involved in community action – this one’s for you. Take 2 minutes to write to the Minister to back more #CommunityPower in the English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill. It's quick & easy. Act now: actionnetwork.org/letters/bcb5...

Can you take 2 minutes to write to the Minister, asking her to back more community power? The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is at risk of being rushed through the House of Lords without proper debate on additional powers for communities. ✍️ actionnetwork.org/letters/bcb5...

A great new film by @powertochange.org.uk looks back at a decade of supporting over 2,000 community businesses. It celebrates the role of community businesses in bringing vision, opportunity, connection and joy to places across the country. Watch the film: youtu.be/14XUwJCDPVU?... #PowertoChange10

New Year, new powers for communities ✨ Start 2026 with a small action that could help tip the balance of power from politicians to local people. Write to the Minister: actionnetwork.org/letters/bcb5... #Devolution #CommunityPower

The future we want to see is rooted in and grown with community power. 🌲 Watch and share the film. 🎬 #CommunityPower #CommunityPoweredPolitics

ACTION: We need your help at a critical moment for #CommunityPower in Parliament. Can you take two minutes to write to Baroness Taylor, asking her to back a Bill that delivers real community power? actionnetwork.org/letters/bcb5... Photo by Roger Harris: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Of...

The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is now being debated in the House of Lords. We take a temperature check on the Bill’s progress and what it means for #CommunityPower in tomorrow’s newsletter. Sign up here: right-here.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

As Big Local comes to an end after 15 years & £200m+ invested, @londonfunders.bsky.social and @localtrust.org.uk are launching a new learning series to explore what happened. The series will draw out lessons to apply to future place-based funding. Learn more:

Our friends at @locality.org.uk have been picked as one of five charities for this year’s Guardian charity appeal.👏👛 Locality supports grassroots community organisations to inspire much-needed hope in places across the UK. Learn more and donate if you can: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Earlier this week, we took the Museum of Broken Dreams to the ‘Britain Renewed’ conference - because communities must be at the heart of our country’s renewal. Organised by @uclpolicylab.bsky.social and @futuregovforum.bsky.social. Visit the exhibition: arcg.is/0K9SvG1 @joshsimonsmp.bsky.social

📣 Latest update: the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill has completed its passage through the House of Commons this week. Where are we now? A thread 🧵 1/5 @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social #devolution #communitypower

New series ‘The Greater Manchester Live Well Podcast’ explores growing community action, power, and wealth. 🎧 In episode 2, our community champion Leah Chikamba explains what her organisation does to help women feel safe & empowered in Gorton, Manchester. #GMLiveWell

Read our take on the government’s #PrideInPlace programme & what it would take for the initiative to deliver true #CommunityPower. It has huge potential to create lasting change, but only if the government fully commits to putting communities in the driving seat.

Congratulations to Shropshire Council for winning Locality’s ‘Keep it Local’ award for their Community Covenant pilot in Market Drayton, spearheaded by our campaign leader Charlotte Hollins.🏆 Read our Q&A with the pilot’s participants:

We had many deep and constructive conversations at the @coopparty.party.coop conference about the need to give real power to neighbourhoods across the UK. Andy Jackson, our campaign convener, reflected on how community power was at the heart of the conference. 🎥

What’s your community dream? Last week, we took the Museum of Broken Dreams to #Locality25 and asked participants to share a vision for their community. Takeisha from New York wrote, “I would like to see more camaraderie in our neighbourhoods – more kindness in our community and more unity.”

We had a blast talking about community power at @locality.org.uk Convention last week in Anfield, Liverpool. Watch our campaign leader Deana Bamford give her highlights. Thanks to everyone who dropped by our stall for a chat! #Locality25 #communitypower

Britain’s social clubs were once the beating heart of civic life but in just 50 years, half have closed their doors. The 21st Century Social Clubs crowdfunding campaign aims to protect and revitalise the 2,000 remaining member-led spaces. 👉 If you can, donate here

On Tuesday, our community champion Leah Chikamba-Mulando reminded the audience at the Greater Manchester Participation Playbook launch that “Community power isn’t just a project, it’s a movement.” See the playbook: www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/l... @greatermcr.bsky.social #GMLiveWell

Ramsgate’s last youth centre runs services that save thousands of £s for its local council, yet it's threatened with closure. Stories like this are precisely why we’re calling for new rights & powers for communities. Story by @lisabachelor.bsky.social.

Speaking in Parliament last week, Minister @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social said she sees new neighbourhood governance structures as an opportunity to push power & resources to community leaders. Read our blog on community-powered neighbourhood governance: www.right-here.org/one-step-clo...

Read the story behind our new film, told by our campaign convener Andy Jackson. 👉 www.right-here.org/community-po... Film by @tuz0.bsky.social #CommunityPoweredPolitics #devolution

🏡 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/🧵

Public services are crumbling in the UK. Community organisations, like Andy's in Sheffield, hold both the knowledge & trust of local people, both of which are key to fixing our failing public services. This country needs a new Community Right to Shape Public Services. 📽️ Watch the video

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

Giving communities more local control is a popular & effective solution. New polling by @powertochange.org.uk finds that 8 out of 10 Britons think it’s important that the government gives local people more control over what happens in their local area.

What happens when politics puts relationships & building trust at its heart? In our new essay collection, our campaign leader Charlotte Hollins shares her experience running a pilot that challenges the top-down culture of local politics, putting #CommunityPower first. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/s...

Writing in our new essay collection, @ewallis.bsky.social argues that: “Trust in government is at an all-time low. However, there are plenty of green shoots to be found when we view politics through a different lens, from the bottom up rather than the top down.” 📖 www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/s...

Join us at Locality Convention ’25! We’re hitting the road again with our Museum of Broken Dreams: this time, we’re heading to @locality.org.uk Convention in Liverpool. 🗓️ 12–13 November 🎟️ Book a ticket to one of the biggest community sector events of the year: locality.org.uk/events/local...

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.