Join us for the launch of a major new paper, from my colleague jess - looking at community business finance needs and challenges and the policy solutions to help overcome them.

Thursday 16th May, midday. Sign up below 👇

Hey, guess what? MAIA is expanding 📢📢📢

We're shaping and building our team and invite members of the community to and those aligned with ur work to explore MAIA as an option.

Investment into ecosystems of many deep demonstrations of civic infrastructure across the UK is critical to the success of this discovery-orientated work, by compounding learning and emergently building the everyday codes and practices needed in the field: bit.ly/EndowingTheFut…

It's great to see CIVIC SQUARE being celebrated on a national scale for the extraordinary, bold, and beautiful work they do.

But please make no mistake: this is no PR campaign, or fancy well-paid consultant. What you see is the result of 10-20+ yrs of Brummie graft & heart.🧵

Endowing The Future is a new propositional paper co-authored by CIVIC SQUARE + Dark Matter Labs, calling philanthropy to meet the moment by endowing its resources + imagination not only to avert the worst but seed just, regenerative, distributive futures bit.ly/EndowingTheFut…

We're excited to open applications for Material Matter[s]. A Skills For Transition Learning Journey with Material Cultures.

Together we’ll learn about biomaterials, ecoregional approaches, + skills we can apply in our homes, streets and neighbourhoods.

bit.ly/MaterialMatterS

Painting and putting together beautiful flatpack furniture WeCanMake for #outdoorretrofit shared community outdoor space. Join us for our Retrofit Action Day #RAD Saturday 18th May ticketleap.events/tickets/retrof…

3ºC Neighbourhood is a new piece of research co-authored by CIVIC SQUARE Dark Matter Labs on the risks UK urban neighbourhoods face due to climate + ecological breakdown under a high emissions scenario, likely resulting in +3ºC average global temperature. bit.ly/Neighbourhood3

It was so lush to see folk from so many places join this event this evening, and get excited about the possibilities of even tiny spaces. This is such a brilliant idea 🛠️🪑📚🌷
(Sorry I couldn’t stay for the whole chat.)

I always think I couldn’t be more inspired and then time with amazing peers and neighbourhoods is endlessly generative and hopeful, thank you to everyone who joined us this evening, and to WeCanMake / The Better Block for the inspiring collaboration. High fives to…

We are about to go live on a gorgeous project we have been working with WeCanMake on, if you’re interested in the first step to activating something bold on your street, in your front garden, the absolute first gorgeous step, join us this evening ♥️

Tonight you can join all these amazing babs to learn more about the Library of Social Infrastructure and how to build furniture that brings your neighbourhood together 🌞

Enjoyed the morning of ⁦Bristol Ideas⁩ most excellent Creative Bureaucracies Festival event something for you here ⁦Ré Dubhthaigh⁩ and great to see ⁦ਇਮਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ | Imandeep Kaur⁩ and ⁦WeCanMake⁩

Superb session on environment & housing with WeCanMake’ Melissa Mean, Exeter City’s @cllrjosieparkhouse, Elim Housing’s Paul Smith & E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism’s Tom Burke: there’s barely any carbon budget left for new homes but what power-wielders are brave enough for radical solutions?

💫Job Opportunity💫

With our CEO carolyn hassan’s retirement, we’re entering a new chapter with martha king  (previously Head of Arts) as Creative Co-Director! We’re recruiting a Co-Director of Business Development & Operations to work with Martha:

tinyurl.com/kwmc-codirector

Keen to build your own sharing library but unsure where to start? Want to know what funding is available for shared community infrastructure?

Find out this and more tomorrow at the Library of Social Infrastructure launch 🚀
eventbrite.co.uk/e/library-of-s…

CIVIC SQUARE The Better Block

Keen to build your own sharing library but unsure where to start? Want to know what funding is available for shared community infrastructure?

Find out this and more tomorrow at the Library of Social Infrastructure launch 🚀
eventbrite.co.uk/e/library-of-s…

CIVIC SQUARE The Better Block

Home is the first infrastructure of everyday life: home is shelter, safety & stability. Yet for many, this infrastructure is out of reach or missing altogether.

We're pleased to support this campaign – a long-term vision, which recognises communities' role in housing design/dev

Who wants to come and be part of seeding a revolution of our front yards and spaces around our homes? Check this out.