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Training the next generation of community organisers to act collectively, build power and change the world. https://actbuildchange.start.page/

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

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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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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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🚨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.

actbuildchange.com

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.

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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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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 👻.

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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)

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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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