Citizen Network

📣 This November, the internationally acclaimed Fearless Cities summit will be coming to the UK and to South Yorkshire for the first time. 📍Come along! — Join us all in Sheffield to reimagine care, power, justice and sustainability for all our neighbourhoods. ⏰ 1st - 3rd November 2024 Tickets live now & they're free: https://ow.ly/npM550Tw2XF 🙌 With huge thanks to our super co-hosts Opus Independents and our sponsors: BarryAmiel & Norman Melburn Trust | Care Full | Doncaster Council | CTRLShift | Esmée Fairbairn Foundation | Fondation Danielle Mitterand | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) | The Lankellychase Foundation | NHS Sheffield | Research for Action | South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre #FearlessCities #Neighbourhoods #CommunityBuilding #Sustainability #Sheffield #SouthYorkshire

Tomorrow I'm with Markus Vähälä Sofia Reyes and all our friends and allies from Plena inclusión and beyond. I am exploring the idea of Neighbourhood Care. What do I mean by this and why is it important? Reflecting on the history of deinstitutionalisation I think the following paradox applies: 1. We do know how to support everyone to be included as a full citizen (although we don't apply what we know and so most people are not included). See the graphic below which shows where people with learning disables in England live (and by extension, how the communities money is misspent). 2. We do not really know how to create inclusive communities, communities where mutual assistance, inclusion and citizenship for all is natural. Instead we focus on including people in communities that then often fail to sustain that inclusion. I also notice that many of my friends and allies are not sitting around waiting to be 'included' - people are starting to mobilise to be community change agents. This is a very important shift. See work of PFG Doncaster and many others. We still have a long way to go. And I think we need to change the challenge we've set ourselves. We need to go upstream to focus on the causes of exclusion. Citizen Network #deinstitutionalisation #community #neighbourhood

Welcome everyone on Thursday 26th September to EDU 3.0 event in Tallinn, Estonia, where the CEO of Citizen Network cooperative Mr Markus Vähälä is speaking with a group of experts about rebuilding Ukraine through humane, citizen centered and area based perspectives. We all need to build peace together and rebuild our societies in resilience, diversity, community, democracy, inclusion and justice. How can we create the skills and our collective potential? What are the keys to citizenship and caring neighbourhoods? Join the event online, if you are not in Tallinn. Welcome!

We are delighted to be working on this exciting event in November. Exploring how we shape a Neighbourhood of Care, we'll be taking a collaborative and participatory approach to explore how our neighbourhoods can enable us to care for ourselves, one another and the planet. Tickets are free but if you can make a donation please do.

Hi everyone! I am really exited and honored to invite you all to participate to our Spanish events with our friends Plena inclusión. Let's create strategies for Neighbourhoods of Care!

This is so important. Not just for the positive reasons set out by Joanna Grace but also for the grave threats we will face if we cannot see each other as equals. There are many philosophers, bioethicists and silent eugenicists out there. They believe that only certain kinds of human can really be counted as 'true humans' and they are lobbying for euthanasia and other eugenic measures. In fact I think they are often winning the argument because we are not very good at sticking up for each other and for the idea of human equality. Citizen Network Tim Stainton

🇪🇸 In this series of 3 interactive webinars with Plena inclusión we'll be exploring the importance of the neighbourhood in creating welcoming and inclusive communities for all. 🌱 There will be practical examples of innovation and good practice from Spain, Latin America and the United Kingdom Please join us! ⏰ Thursday 26 September 👉 https://ow.ly/LYg550SYAbh #CommunityBuilding #MiCasaUVC #inclusion #communityengagement #InclusiveCommunities #deinstitutionalisation

Yes, we do — come along and discover the power of #mapping with us, link to register below 👇 all welcome! #selfdirectedsupport #inclusion #CommunityEvent #KnowledgeSharing

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In the context of political disaffection, I tapped into two initiatives in West Africa to explore the power of democratic innovations and how to improve citizens' participation in Africa. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/gdcsdVwW #Africa #DemocraticInnovations #CitizenParticipation Thanks to Simon Duffy Citizen Network