🌱 Weaving a Stronger Community Fabric: Our Summer of Connection and Collaboration
After a Spring of growth, our flower has bloomed, attracting partnerships, relationships, and networks packed with potential for positive change. We've been handcrafting the social infrastructure to ensure that the grassroots efforts in our rural community are no longer overlooked or under-supported.
Over the past few months, we’ve reached nearly every corner of our bioregion, engaging with well over 100 organisations and 200 individuals. We've strengthened connections with local businesses, grassroots organisations, and individuals eager to get involved. We've also engaged in crucial conversations with national and international networks and funders on how best to support grassroots change.
💬 Highlights:
Strengthening Partnerships: Collaborating with Sustainable Dorset, mentoring young environmental volunteers, and starting to engage with Transition Groups across the South West.
Supporting Local Initiatives: From local art takeovers to building town-based funding models, we’re working arm in arm with incredible local businesses and organisations to support the resilience of our community.
Exploring New Metaphors: We’re using the concept of compound interest to reimagine community-building efforts, amplifying positive change through stronger relationships and networks.
In our latest Substack, we share updates, reflections, and a few messy thoughts—because we spend more time in our community than behind a screen, and that’s exactly how it should be.
💡 We also dive into the cultural implications of flawed support systems for grassroots projects and why reclaiming community-led work as a collective creative expression is vital.
If you’re curious about what we’re up to, check out our latest post below.
👉 Read more on Substack https://lnkd.in/eyZqfqPs
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