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2021[edit | edit source]

Community Ownership Fund, Policy paper, Mar 3 [1] From summer 2021 community groups will be able to bid for up to £250,000 matched-funding to help them buy or take over local community assets at risk of being lost, to run as community-owned businesses. The first bidding round for the Community Ownership Fund will open by June 2021.


2020[edit | edit source]

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Tomorrow Today Streets, Creating essential micro-infrastructure for post Covid 19 neighbourhoods, TessyBritton[2] May 30...Barking and Dagenham

Who can be trusted to develop us? Yes, we the people. But local Trusts have been strengthening communities for decades. Covid-19 shows it's their time. Pat Kane. May 10[3]

💚 We don't need institutes, we need constitutes… and they should live in a Makar House, Pat Kane.[4] Mar 16...Scotland news

2019[edit | edit source]

Library of Things is helping UK go zero waste.[5] Nov 29

A "fab city" aims to produce everything - energy, commodities, food - that it consumes. And Plymouth is one of them. Nov 25, 2019[6]

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"Play Out Til Tea" is a great Birmingham Impact Hub idea - but their "neighbourhood of the future" is even better.[7] Jul 21

From Impact Hub Birmingham to Civic Square.[8] Jun 16

The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money?[9] Apr 24...Oxfordshire

Every One Every Day, new makerspace opens in London.[10] Mar 20...Barking and Dagenham

Could this community project be the start of a national transformation? George Monbiot.[11] Jan 24

Nesta's 'ShareTown' interactive shows what a cooperative, tech-enabled economy might look like. Jan 3...Towards sustainable economies news

2018[edit | edit source]

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The Common Room — designing a future for all ages, Oct 2[12]...Social inclusion UK

Britain's shared spaces are vanishing, leaving us a nation of cliques, John Harris, Sep 4[13]

What kind of space can welcome a diverse community? Apr 28[14]...Devon

💚 We need civic operating systems to manage the social fabric for healthy communities – plus a social app store of tools, David Wilcox, August 17[15]

Why Smart City London should be a #NetworkedCity: participatory, sharing, inclusive and accessible, Feb 9[16]

2017[edit | edit source]

"Human beings being human: Part two of Connecting well" by David Robinson, Oct 20[17]

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How the Share Shed in the UK is Building Community, Jul 5[18]...Totnes

What Does it Mean to Unlock the Next Economy? Jun 7[19] "If churches survive – architecturally and even as places of worship – it will be because they have become a social resource."

Creating thriving community hubs: What does it take? May 2[20]

2016[edit | edit source]

How a British Library is Fighting Loneliness with a Public Living Room, Dec 6[21]

2015[edit | edit source]

Top findings from the open dataset of UK makerspaces, April 24[22]

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