Last month we spent a day working with the team at @neweconomics.bsky.social, training them on collective care in organising and how to build power that is sustainable and long term. We are so excited to see how NEF’s organising work progresses. Follow them to stay updated with their work!
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In our latest story, Dr Lou Roberts, New Project Developer at KRAN, shares how KRAN are building the foundations of a Kent-wide refugee solidarity movement. Read the full story: actbuildchange.com/stories/how-... #CommunityOrganising #Campaigns #Activism
How Kent Refugee Action Network is Building Local Solidarity | Act Build Change
Lou Roberts shares how KRAN are building the foundations of a Kent-wide refugee solidarity movement.
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Leadership teams share responsibility and hold each other accountable. Learn to build teams with clear roles and structure to win change. Sign up for our upcoming workshop 👇 🗓️ Tue 18 Aug | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/leade... #CommunityOrganising #CommunityOrganiser #Campaigner
Build Teams that Drive Campaigns – Community Organising Foundations
Leadership teams share responsibility and hold each other accountable. Learn to build teams with clear roles and structure to win change.
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How's your summer? Here's our community organiser Ari with a quick update on Coventry's Green for All partnership. Also how urban parklets help stop people in their tracks for a chat about nature and how YOU can get involved in greening our city for all. Email afairgrieve@grapevinecovandwarks.org ✉️
No young person should fall through the cracks. 🙅🏾♂️ Young people navigating care often face barriers to legal advice and representation to resolve their immigration issues. If you or someone you know has gone through this we'd like to hear from you. 🙏🏽 Please reach out to us via info@webelong.org.uk
Are you an organiser looking for work? Our opportunities board is curated specifically for you. Here are some current highlights 👇🧵
Our workshop Decide What to Act On is in one week! Have you got your tickets yet? 🗓️ Tue 28 Jul | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/liste... #CommunityOrganising #CommunityOrganiser #Activist #Campaigner
Decide What to Act On – Community Organising Foundations
Listening campaigns help you understand what people care about. Learn to identify shared concerns and prioritise which issues to address.
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Our next Introduction to Transformative Community Organising workshop is happening in one week! If you haven’t already, make sure you reserve your place on this in-demand workshop. 🗓️ Wed 22 Jul | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/intro... #CommunityOrganising #CommunityOrganisers #Campaigner
Introduction to Transformative Community Organising
Transformative organising combines community organising and collective care. Discover the basics of power and creating change together.
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🚨One week left to be apply to be Project Manager at Act Build Change🚨 We're looking for a Project Manager to power the work behind the change – coordinating ambitious programmes that help communities organise, grow, and transform their lives. Find out more here: actbuildchange.com/opportunitie...
Project Manager at Act Build Change
Power the work behind the change – coordinating ambitious programmes that help communities organise, grow, and transform their lives.
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Our next Introduction to Transformative Community Organising workshop is happening in one week! If you haven’t already, make sure you reserve your place on this in-demand workshop. 🗓️ Wed 22 Jul | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/intro... #CommunityOrganising #CommunityOrganisers #Campaigner
Introduction to Transformative Community Organising
Transformative organising combines community organising and collective care. Discover the basics of power and creating change together.
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In our latest blog post, our team share reading recommendations that have impacted and informed their organising. From novels and short stories to essay collections and poetry, we hope you learn as much from these reads as we did. Read here: actbuildchange.com/stories/ener... #ReadingRecs
Energise Your Organising With These Reading Recommendations | Act Build Change
From poetry to Radical Futures, our team shares what they’ve been reading that has supported and inspired them in their organising work.
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In our latest blog post, our team share reading recommendations that have impacted and informed their organising. From novels and short stories to essay collections and poetry, we hope you learn as much from these reads as we did. Read here: actbuildchange.com/stories/ener... #ReadingRecs
Energise Your Organising With These Reading Recommendations | Act Build Change
From poetry to Radical Futures, our team shares what they’ve been reading that has supported and inspired them in their organising work.
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Looking for a job that makes a difference in the world? Our Opportunities page is where to look. Here are some of the current highlights 👇🧵 #Hiring #Jobs #CommunityOrganiser #Activist #Campaigner
🚨We're hiring! 🚨 Join Act Build Change as Project Manager to power the work behind the change – coordinating ambitious programmes that help communities organise, grow, and transform their lives. Find out more about the role and how to apply here: actbuildchange.com/opportunitie...
Project Manager at Act Build Change
Power the work behind the change – coordinating ambitious programmes that help communities organise, grow, and transform their lives.
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Listening campaigns help you understand what people care about. Learn to identify shared concerns and prioritise which issues to address. Sign up for our upcoming workshop 👇 🗓️ Tue 28 Jul | Book now:
Decide What to Act On – Community Organising Foundations
Listening campaigns help you understand what people care about. Learn to identify shared concerns and prioritise which issues to address.
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Join our training that introduces you to transformative community organising – an approach that combines the strategic power-building of community organising with the sustaining practice of collective care. 🗓️ Wed 22 Jul | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/intro... #CommunityOrganising
Introduction to Transformative Community Organising
Transformative organising combines community organising and collective care. Discover the basics of power and creating change together.
actbuildchange.com
Last week, groups of the Migrant Power Project gathered in London for a workshop on public narrative led by Stephanie and Imani 🧵 #MigrantJustice #MigrantPower #CommunityOrganising #CommunityOrganiser
Join us tomorrow, there are a few final tickets left! 👇
Have you booked your space on our upcoming workshop Grow Commitment through Relationships? We'll be discussing the value of one-to-ones and give you practical tools to overcome challenges and use them to scale your organising. 🗓️ Tue 16 Jun | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/one-t...
Do you have an organising story that changed the way you think about how to achieve change? Do you have a win or a loss other organisers can learn from? Do you have a perspective on organising that is often overlooked? We want to hear from you! 🧵 #CommunityOrganiser #Activist #CommunityOrganising
Have you booked your space on our upcoming workshop Grow Commitment through Relationships? We'll be discussing the value of one-to-ones and give you practical tools to overcome challenges and use them to scale your organising. 🗓️ Tue 16 Jun | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/one-t...
Grow Commitment through Relationships – Community Organising Foundations
One-to-ones build relationships based on shared values, not transactions. Learn to create accountability and build critical mass for change.
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'Caring about people doesn’t mean carrying everything for them. Organising is about developing the leadership of others.' – Hope Barnes, a Shelter organiser, on stepping out of rescuer mode and why boundaries are what make care sustainable. Read the full story: actbuildchange.com/stories/how-...
How Collective Care Has Changed the Way I Organise | Act Build Change
Caring about people doesn't mean carrying everything for them – Hope Barnes, a Shelter organiser, on what changed when she set clearer boundaries.
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Our jobs board is curated specifically for organisers. Here are some of the current highlights 👇🧵 #Hiring #CommunityOrganiser #Campaigner #Changemaker #CommunityOrganising
Over the last few weeks we’ve been celebrating some of our members and the wins they achieved together in the past year. This week, we’re celebrating @trusselluk.bsky.social! #CommunityOrganising #Campaign #Campaigning #CommunityOrganiser #FoodJustice
Earlier this month, our team met in York for a day of strategy. This work will form our direction for years ahead and we will share more with you later this year. We also went on a Ghost Tour in city centre with team members reporting spooky events later that evening 👻.
One-to-ones are a crucial element of community organising and building power. They’re how we share stories, build relationships, and understand our shared resources – behind every win is a history of one-to-ones. 🗓️ Tue 16 Jun | Book now: actbuildchange.com/events/one-t... #CommunityOrganising
Grow Commitment through Relationships – Community Organising Foundations
One-to-ones build relationships based on shared values, not transactions. Learn to create accountability and build critical mass for change.
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Bana Gora, the co-founder and CEO of Muslim Women's Council (MWC). Bana was an incredible leader and was steadfastly dedicated to justice and her community in Bradford and beyond. (1/3)
One week to go until our workshop Track Metrics that Build Power. Have you signed up yet? 🗓️ Wed 20 May | Book now:
Track Metrics that Build Power – Community Organising Foundations
Data shows whether you're building real power, not just numbers. Learn to measure what matters and use insights to guide strategy.
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In the latest instalment of our Lessons From Harvard series, Stephanie Wong shares what she learned about the value of data in organising while teaching at Harvard and how she is bringing that knowledge to our work at Act Build Change. Read the full story: actbuildchange.com/stories/what...
What You Measure is What Counts – Lessons from Harvard | Act Build Change
Effectively using and understanding data in organising isn’t just for the scientists among us and can be a valuable tool in creating change in our communities.
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Our Opportunities page is the place to look for jobs, grants and training programmes for organisers. Here are some of the current highlights 👇🧵 #Opportunities #Hiring #Changemakers #CommunityOrganisers
Our organisers Ariel and Kate recently spent a powerful day at Kent Solidarity Regional Conference organised by @kentrefugeean.bsky.social and @right-to-remain.bsky.social. #RightToRemain #MigrantJustice #RefugeesWelcome