As one part of our Creating Places for Everyone action plan, Locality is committed to supporting online peer networking groups, resourced through our Connectors-UK programme, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
This new group is for generalist community organisations set up for and focused on supporting place-based communities, working in majority white British neighbourhoods, who are often at the sharp end of some of the most toxic debates our country is experiencing.
This will be a safe space to learn and unlearn, building strength and solidarity to build inclusion in places which are increasingly being defined by division and to create allyship with wider racial justice movements.
In this first meeting of the group, we will:
- Work together to build a safe space for members to get to know each other and share their local experiences and reasons for joining
- Discuss how the group follows on from the Creating Places for Everyone report and action plan, and how this group could support members to manage the issues it raises – eg, working across racial and cultural lines, supporting racialised groups locally, and building and maintaining cohesion between local groups.
- Co-design the ongoing shape, focus, and purpose of the group, and how it can best provide the support members need
- Discuss opportunities for members to get involved in our funded “test and learn” pilot for a new CPFE member support programme
This group is open to members with Essentials or Membership Plus packages only.
Our peer networking groups will operate across a broad typology of the Locality membership that is discussed in our Creating Places for Everyone report. While not intended to be neat or definitive, this typology has helped us shape our support offer so that it is relevant to organisations working in different contexts. You can read more about the typologies in the report. We recognise that this is not a fixed typology and there will be overlapping support needs for organisations across the areas.