The Community Organisers programme will create a new home-grown movement of community organising for the 21st century, grown directly from the strengths, concerns and hopes of communities across the country.
The Community Organisers programme has its own website www.cocollaborative.org.uk where you can find out more about the organisers, apply to become a host, ask questions and get in touch.
Latest hosts
We have selected the fourth round of Community Organiser hosts:
- Ashington Community Development Trust – Northumberland
- BARCA Leeds partnership – Leeds
- Caldmore Area Housing Association Ltd – Walsall, West Midlands
- Great Yarmouth Community Trust – Norfolk
- Horizons Community Learning CIC – St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
- Sefton CVS – Merseyside
- South Westminster Action Network (SWAN) – Westminster
- St Werburghs Community Association – Bristol
- The Winch – Camden
If you’d like to become a community organiser, please contact your local host directly.
For a full list of hosts visit the Community Organisers website.
What is the Community Organisers programme?
The programme will recruit and train 500 senior community organisers, along with a further 4,500 part-time voluntary organisers, over four years.
Community organisers will listen to residents in their homes, on the street and where they gather, and they will listen to public service and third sector workers, small businesses and local institutions to help develop their collective power to act together for the common good, as identified locally.
The work of the community organisers will enable people to take action on their own behalf and have the power and confidence to tackle the issues which are important to them. It will also enable them to make the most of new local community rights and opportunities to achieve their own aspirations.
Community organisers will be recruited and hosted by local community host organisations, often in deprived areas of the country.
RE:generate, Locality’s training partner, will train the community organisers in the ‘Root Solution Listening Matters’ approach to help them build networks and create dialogue.
Locality has a great deal of experience in peer-to-peer learning support and will be ensuring that community organisers learn from each other and build networks both locally and across the country using face-to-face connections and digital media.
You can find out the latest on the project via Jess Steele’s blog. Jess is Director of Innovation at Locality and leads on the Community Organisers project. You can also keep up-to-date by following @corganisers on twitter.
Read Locality’s Community Organisers bid here.
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