Campaigners, organisers, artists, researchers and community builders sharing ideas for a fairer future.
Meet our speakers
PLENARY
Our communities:
organising in wild times
Immy Kaur
Paul Parker
Mel Smith
Civic Square
Quakers in Britain
Grapevine (Conventry &
Warwickshire)
Exploring how communities can build local power and create neighbourhood democracy.
Strengthening movements and connecting communities to build collective action for social justice.
Growing local leadership and neighbourhood networks through practical community organising.
MOVEMENT BUILDING
MOVEMENT BUILDING
Reform is in power in many councils and the far right is growing. This conversation brings together voices from across civil society and how communities can organise, build power and create change. Chaired by our very own Esther Foreman.
MOVEMENT BUILDING
MOVEMENT BUILDING
Pedro Telles
D-hub
Exploring how collaboration and civic participation can help communities build lasting power.
Martha Mackenzie
Civic Power Fund
Supporting long-term community organising by investing in grassroot leaders and excluded communities.
MOVEMENT BUILDING
MOVEMENT BUILDING
Breakthough Impact
Katherine Sladden
Building effective campaigns shaped by lived experience.
Breakthrough Impact
WORKSHOP
Jo Hiley
People's Economy
Mapping and responding to economic injustice in our communities.
TRAINING
Anna Birney & Nairy McMahon
Schools of system change
How to have conversations in your place when your community is reform?
WORKSHOP
Frankie Williams
Advocacy Academy
Roots to Rise: How Do We Build a Movement, Not Just a Moment?
WORKSHOP
Catherine Dempsey
PGM Community
Open conversations on place-based organising and collaboration.
OPEN SPACE
Paul Parker
Quakers
How do we bring together the pockets of hope in our movement into one coherent effort?
OPEN SPACE
Sophie Neuburg
Speak Out!
What is shrinking civic space and what does it look and feel like?
WORKSHOP
Esther Foreman, Betsy Dillner & Joe Doran
SCN & The Walcot Foundation
Bulls**t Bingo! A light-hearted interactive session to call out the phrases we'd all retire.
Aimee Dorsett Brown
The Social Change Nest
Pause, breathe and reset with a guided movement and breathwork session.
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
Craftspace
Workshop
A hands on activity to make a medal to celebrate the often-unacknowledged acts of everyday courage.
ACTIVITY
Anthea Lawson
Common Ground
Learn tips on "How to Save the World & Not Annoy People".
WORKSHOP
Mara Livermore & Orla Nicholls
Our House
Exploring people's charters, place-based organising and rebuilding trust in democracy.
TRAINING
Natasha Adams
Movement Building Consultants
Looking at collective strategy
TRAINING
Angelica Finnegan
York Together
OPEN SPACE
Open conversations on place-based organising and collaboration.
Natasha Friend
Camden Giving
TRAINING
Open conversations on place-based organising and collaboration.
Nadia Asri
The Social Change Nest
Imagine together the future we’re building towards, and think honestly about what it will take to get there.
WORKSHOP
Mayuna Radzi & Sunitha Dwarakanath
Regularise
Building Power for Migrant Rights and Secure Status.
WORKSHOP
Natasha Adams
Movement Building Consultant
What does the authoritarian far right means for your work, now and in the future?
TRAINING
Mathea Martin
The Social Change Nest
A participatory live record of The Social Change Pod.
ACTIVITY
Veronica Collins & Kate Dyer
Fibreshed Scotland
See and experience a drop spindle, and discuss how Fibresheds can contribute to soil health and regeneration.
ACTIVITY
