How can we protect, strengthen and revitalise these democratic, member-led spaces?

Through:

🔸 practical support for clubs

🔸 peer-learning summits, solidarity and study visits

🔸 urgent assistance for clubs at risk

🔸 better policy, training and funding for the sector

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Stir to Action & Centre for Democratic Business are running a campaign to do just that — and they're halfway through their target of £25,000.

Pledge or share to join the movement: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/21st-centu...

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How can we protect, strengthen and revitalise these democratic, member-led spaces?

Through:

🔸 practical support for clubs

🔸 peer-learning summits, solidarity and study visits

🔸 urgent assistance for clubs at risk

🔸 better policy, training and funding for the sector

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In your own neighbourhood, are you working towards...

💚 Safeguarding vital buildings & land for community use in perpetuity?
🏡 Unlocking the opportunity of new builds to deliver community projects?

Read CCDT's story & learn some of the tactics, from council relationships to Section 106s ⬇️

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...and have created 38 jobs, bringing ~£12 million in funding to Chichester, and reinvesting 74p in every £1 locally ✨

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Since 2009, CCDT has transformed more than a dozen new, disused and underused spaces for community needs.

Owned and led by local residents and organisations, they work closely with Chichester District Council, developers, housing associations and funders.

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b inspired has become a community anchor, championing the neighbourhood & its citizens to reach their full potential, promoting health & social wellbeing, & supporting community businesses to bring activities to life.

Find out how they did it ⬇️

#MycelialNetwork #MycelialNetworkCADs

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✳️ 75,000 sq ft (plus 4 football pitches) activated
✳️ 50 small businesses with affordable workspace
✳️ 4 families with quality, affordable housing
✳️ 130 young people using activities and services

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Across the country, communities are transforming their places. They're meeting local needs & solving social & environmental challenges.

Yet so much more could be done, faster, if more rights & power were in community hands 🌱

Join the campaign ⬇️

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@powertochange.org.uk @locality.org.uk

📢 "The Government is planning the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster in a generation.

But that power needs to go to local people, not just politicians.

People who really know their neighbourhoods and what they need to thrive" 📢

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