built ideas for spatial justice.

From zine-making and street detectorism to river storytelling, audio walks, and long-term thinking, each event was a small experiment in people-led placemaking.

Thanks to everyone who joined us — more Common Futures conversations coming soon.

building local community connections and pursuing their first spaces to unlock and revitalise.

We’re looking forward to working closely with them across 2026, offering tailored support, mentoring and strategic guidance to help them bring community ownership to Bedminster

model through five local property partnerships.

We’ve been delighted to mentor and support Bedminster Works, one of the pilot projects based in Bristol. We’ve been sharing our learning & supporting the development of their strategy.

Bedminster Works are now developing their team and governance,

Community Coordinators & rent support to get organisations off the ground, make our buildings more accessible an&d welcoming & strengthen ties between our residents & the wider community.

We’re always open to talking to anyone interested in funding the work Makespace does - get in touch

If you’re running a community project and want guidance on securing or managing space, get in touch. And, if you want to support the amazing work YWMP does, you can do so here: buff.ly/VxKCQ5C

make music, build skills & grow confidence, while putting safer spaces principles into practice.

It’s the kind of work we love: helping grassroots organisations take control of the spaces they need to thrive. But, of course, the hard work & dedication of the YWMP team is what made it happen.

supporting 9 organisations and upwards of 20 jobs.

It also allowed us to create a shared space that we intend to use for experiments into commoning. Watch this space for more information in the new year.

performance, Suffragettes. We also loved seeing residents try something new — like Taiwil Oluwatuyi’s first Oxford sewing workshop.

have fewer barriers to space and expression.

Highlights included Evoke Belonging’s poetry night, storytelling at The Community Works, a pop-up dinner from Iraqi Women Art & War, Uncomfortable Oxford’s talk on hidden women’s histories, Oxford Poetry Library events, and Beautiful Minds’ first

&1:1 support focused on helping organisations access and make the most of space — a major barrier for many small social businesses.

The programme is still running. Find out more via our bio.

🌳Participants felt a greater connection with nature
✨People found it inclusive for neurodivergent children
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Attendees valued the intergenerational nature of the event

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shaping in an area with limited social infrastructure.

Through feedback gathered, we found:

🤝Families made new friends and felt more connected
🌿Parents found a calm space to chat and breathe
🎨Children gained confidence through creative play
🖌️Local artists shared their skills and felt valued

Oxfordshire into a healthy, thriving, just space for all, for generations to come. And, at Makespace, that starts with equitable access to space.

To learn more, read our (Re)founding Makespace Oxford(shire) blog post via the link in our bio

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But, we refined and updated our missions to reflect our new North Star: spatial justice.

If our systems of property and place are rife with inequity, then physical space is an issue of justice — and any fight for justice has a spatial dimension.

We want to be part of a movement that transforms

eye-watering inequality in Oxfordshire, and who is resourcing the work?

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This blog digs deeper into why funding is needed to transform our neighbourhoods and the barriers standing in the way. We'd love to hear from anyone interested in funding the slow work of system change.