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.
Events Join us in Bexhill on July 9th for a sociable study visit with Civic Revival Join us for Civic Revival’s first study visit to the sunny south coast and come together with fellow localists and community democrats to share the success of Bexhill'
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?
Reports Common themes emerge from first Civic Activist sharing session Read the report and watch the video of the first in our online discussions in the series leading up to the launch of a 'Manifesto for civic revival' ahead of next May’s local elections.
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?
Events Five Steps Forward for the Civic Revival Five web events taking place monthly from October 2020 to February 2021, each looking at a key dimension in the civic, municipalist and local democratic empowerment landscape, and contributing to the publication of a ‘Civic Revival manifesto’
Events New Economy summer festivals review A review of three summer festivals from the new economy movement, which moved online this year.
Events Civic Revival Launch Event View Civic Revival's official online launch event here - with founders and directors Peter Stonham and Richard Walker giving an introduction to the project
Events World Localization Day Steven Gorelick of Local Futures introduces World Localization Day, an online festival of discussion held on 21 June 2020, with contributors from all over the world.
