As one part of our Creating Places for Everyone action plan, Locality is committed to supporting online specialist peer networking groups, resourced through our Connectors-UK programme, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
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.
This new peer networking group is for generalist community organisations set up for and focused on supporting place-based communities, working in ethnically diverse – and often predominantly racialised – neighbourhoods. Support will be targeted at helping multipurpose community organisations to develop their anti-racist “lens”.
Group meetings will provide opportunities to share good practice, and discuss shared challenges. They will focus on understanding specific experiences of making the shift from a generalist position of social justice, to a proactive anti-racist stance, and what it looks like to use anti-racism as a lens to shape community organisations’ activities.
This group is open to members with Essentials or Membership Plus packages only.