Events Civic Revival's first sociable study tour a seaside success: full report Civic Revival's sociable study tour to Bexhill-on-Sea marked a welcome return to meeting people face-to-face in real places, but also featured a Zoom call with friends of Civic Revival who couldn't attend in person
Events Join our Bexhill sociable study tour remotely on Zoom live from Bexhill Museum A Zoom gathering has been organised for people who would like to participate in our sociable study tour of Bexhill on 9 July, but cannot attend in person.
Walker's Wanderings Collapsing pillars of the community: why we must mourn the loss of local bank branches Some reflections on the announced closure of 110 branches of Santander Bank UK.
Events Video of 'Empowering Our Communities' online event Watch the video of the online event virtually hosted from Hastings and Bexhill on 28 March 2021, featuring top civic leaders, activists and practitioners from across the country.
Reports Speakers and programme announced for Empowering Our Communities, Sun 28 March The line up of leading civic activists speaking and in discussion at the online event hosted from Hastings and Bexhill, which will also feature the launch of 'Nine Principles for Democratic Civic Leadership'
Events Wed 31 March: Tools to Make a Difference in the Community An event in Community Business Patchwork's series curated and hosted by Leicestershire's TH!NK FC
Events Sun 28 March: Empowering our communities An online event bringing together civic activists from across England, to set a civic revival agenda for the 2021 local elections.
Events Purpose of masterplan-led redevelopment questioned at third Civic Revival forum At the session “Town & city centres, masterplanning, and the ‘big property’ dinosaurs”, active citizens from London to Bradford and Crewe asked if the local planning system has been captured by a property development industry based on extraction.
Events Thurs 17 Dec: Town & city centres, masterplanning and the ‘big property’ dinosaurs Part 3 of the Civic Revival discussion forum series turns to the property development system and planning the future of our town & city centres. How can communities exercise meaningful democratic control over their future?
Reports Quest for local democracy explored by pioneers and change campaigners Report and video of the second discussion forum in the Manifesto for a civic revival series: 'Self governance at the human scale - proof of concept'
Events Thur 3 Dec: Communities and empty properties Looking to generate sustainable community wealth? Wanting to support communities to do it for themselves? Ian Case and Deana Wildgoose will share what they are doing in North West Leicestershire and introduce some tools to share and use in your area.
Events Thurs 19 Nov: Self-governance at a human scale - proof of concept By talking to people who have made it happen, Nick Wates & Peter Macfadyen ask: what does effective and successful citizen power look like?
Events Thurs 29 Oct: 'Manifesto for the Civic Revival' - Mapping the Territory Part 1 of our 'Five Steps Forward for the Civic Revival' online discussion series: what might be covered in a manifesto to be developed during the series and presented to those standing in local elections next May?
Reports Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram convenes new Land Commission The new Liverpool City Region Land Commission is tasked with making radical recommendations on how best to use publicly-owned land for community wealth building.
Reports Kruger proposes ‘a new social covenant’ Devizes MP Danny Kruger has published a landmark report in response to the PM’s request to find ways to ‘sustain the community spirit seen during lockdown into the recovery phase and beyond’.
Walker's Wanderings Walker’s Wanderings Episode 4: Singapore-on-Thames Your intrepid wanderer sails into the maw of the beast: but is London the goose that lays the golden egg, the cuckoo in the nest – or the dead parrot?
Reports Trust the people Flatpack Democracy’s bid to take over the country was launched online on 9 September 2020.
Events New Economy summer festivals review A review of three summer festivals from the new economy movement, which moved online this year.
Walker's Wanderings Walker's Wanderings: introduction A new series for the Civic Revival website - what Civic Revival's co-founder is finding as he pootles around the country
Walker's Wanderings Walker's Wanderings Episode 1: Geordieland A ramble around the town and city centres of Northumberland, as they emerged from lockdown in August 2020.
Walker's Wanderings Walker’s Wanderings Episode 2: New housing in Morpeth and Amble A wander round new edge-of-town housing in Morpeth and Amble, Northumberland, with musings on themes of the government's current consultation on tearing down the English planning system, and building up a new one.
Walker's Wanderings Walker’s Wanderings Episode 3: Forest therapy - Choppington Woods One surprising aspect of the 2020 coronavirus lockdown that was deeply felt by many, was the comfort and the joy of observing the everyday rhythms of nature in their own immediate locality.
Reports Building a new local economy Report from the Stir to Action/New Economics Foundation workshops on 19 February & 22 April 2020
Reports Dunster, Watchet and Minehead A tour of three places in West Somerset looking for examples of civic activism following the 'Beyond the Fragments' discussion at the Yarn Market Hotel, Dunster in 2018.
