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A place to talk about the Government's idea of how community organising will help build a Big Society.

Location: UK
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Latest Activity: Apr 25

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A few links on community organising in the UK

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Just a listing to start with, but as and when we get more entries we can think about how to display better

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Community organising resources

Started by David Wilcox. Last reply by John Farrar Apr 25. 6 Replies 0 Likes

I'm researching community organising approaches for work on a number of fronts, and in the course of that tweeted:Just found great resources from this Harvard course on community organising http://t.co/5sGzWLv…Continue

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Blessed are the Organised

Started by Joe Taylor. Last reply by John Farrar Apr 25. 20 Replies 0 Likes

Has anyone read Blessed are the Organised by Jeffrey Stout? If so any comments?This book is worth reading.Seems to me there are a lot of comments flying around about community organisers when we don't really know much about them in this country - a…Continue

Community organising vs Community development

Started by Mark Parker. Last reply by Phil Green Feb 20. 63 Replies 0 Likes

I am keento explore the role that community organising plays distinct from that of community development. Much of the debate around what organising has to offer in the UK is mired in the sense that "we've been doing that for years." I'd like to take…Continue

Can self-organising or citizen-centred participation be part of the mix?

Started by Phil Green. Last reply by Eileen Conn Feb 19, 2011. 8 Replies 0 Likes

I'm not talking about who gets such and such a contract. Or about whether these things are already part of the mix, I'd suggest they are, and have been a growing part for some time. It's more a question of whether there are ways in which such…Continue

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How does 21st Century Community Organising avoid being top down?

Started by Phil Green. Last reply by David Wilcox Feb 19, 2011. 36 Replies 0 Likes

Or how does any form of community organizing - see for example the opening paragraph of Wikipedia's article - avoid feeling top down to ordinary citizens and community…Continue

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Local approaches to community organising

Started by Lorna Prescott. Last reply by Martin Gilbraith Feb 2, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes

HiI've posted the attached paper to the Our Society in Dudley Borough group, but happy to discuss and develop thinking here too, as I'm keen to find out if other areas are adopting thier own approaches to community organising. Feel free to pick my…Continue

Community organising seminar slides

Started by David Wilcox. Last reply by Colin Miller Jan 18, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Organising for the Big Society These slides are uploaded with permission from OPM, the Office for Public Management. Ewan…Continue

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Community organising - a couple of viewpoints

Started by Sophie Ballinger. Last reply by Mike Chitty Jan 12, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Thanks for starting up this group Emma - I know it's a topic that has stirred up much debate amongst CDX members. Here are a couple of articles from CDX Magazine 63, which I thought might be of interest:…Continue

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Comment by Phil Green on December 1, 2011 at 8:58: Hi Emma and all, have started a blogroll in the 'few links' box above but would be good to set up a separate "Community organising resources, your suggestions" discussion or page, including merging with stuff from Community organising resources What do you think? Happy to do this, if you like, but may take me a while to get to!

Comment by Jana Mills on April 27, 2011 at 18:49: Hi All,

I realise that many of you are located in the North so it may be a long way to travel but there are a few invites set aside for Our Society folks to join us at the Citizens UK National Assembly in Central London this Monday 2PM (Press Conference at 1:30PM). Would anyone like a Press Ticket? Please get in touch with either alvin.carpio@londoncitizens.org.uk or me jana.mills@gmail.com.

Cheers,
Jana

Comment by David Wilcox on March 8, 2011 at 17:34: Third Sector article on why - in their view - Citizens UK didn't win the community organiser contract http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/rss/article/1058293/Analysis-Comm...

Comment by David Wilcox on February 28, 2011 at 10:14: The programme manager for the Locality community organiser programme, Jess Steele, has blogged a piece about the way they will move forward, and published their bid in full http://bit.ly/hWV4gX

Comment by David Wilcox on February 22, 2011 at 10:38: There's a long post by Toby Blume on the Community Organiser programme http://tobyblume.posterous.com/we-must-take-a-risk-on-community-org...

Comment by David Wilcox on February 19, 2011 at 14:58: I've just blogged a piece elsewhere on the site, with a roundup of announcements about community organisers, NESTA Neighbourhoods, and 50 areas supported by the Big Local Trust.

Comment by David Wilcox on February 3, 2011 at 15:09: Some interesting blog posts on community organising in the main section of the site http://oursociety.org.uk/profiles/blog/list

Comment by David Wilcox on January 14, 2011 at 22:45: There's some Big Society discussion on Linkedin here
http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&srchtype=discussedNews&...

which is interesting because people are talking about participation and partnership ... fields I've been much involved in previously, but now appear out of fashion, at least as terms, in favour of organising, co-design, co-production. Or am I just not listening in the right places?

Comment by David Wilcox on January 13, 2011 at 13:09: Thanks Colin - I've now added a forum post to see if anyone is interested in collaborating on bookmarking resources. Are you up for that? I guess you've got lots and would know information officers who might be interested.

Comment by Colin Miller on January 13, 2011 at 11:28: Thanks for this David

This is a really interesting site for developing an understanding of the US form of community organising. Well worth a visit. I'll try and find the time over the next few days to add some of my own thoughts re community organising, community development and the big society aka the points Gabriel and i made in our recent paper mentioned below.