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From Totnes to Hartlepool, meet the people making community power happen in their places - the changemakers behind our campaign.

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The more voices we have showing support for community power, the better chance we have of achieving the transformative change our country needs and deserves.

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📍 Local people should be given the powers to shape the places where they live - but are too often left voiceless.

📢 That's why we need a #CommunityPowerAct

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'Resources are needed alongside legislation to ensure that a Community Power Act would be as effective as possible'

Josh Westerling sets out cost-effective options for the next government to help ensure every community can take advantage of new powers.

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From fish and chip Fridays to yoga classes and mutual aid, Stretford Public Hall is a thriving community space.

It stands as a testament to what's possible when buildings are in communities’ hands.

And why we need a Community Right to Buy.

Full interview 👀 right-here.org/stretford-publ…

We've got big plans & we'll need your support every step of the way ✊

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Excellent Locality research.

I spoke about the link between declining trust in politics and the need for community empowerment with Ben Ansell Chris Curtis Fordhall Organic Farm at Onward createstreets Labour Together Restitch conference recently. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

What would Adam Lent do if he were dictator for the day?

Transform #localgov through radical integration, radical devolution and radical community power.

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Our Manifesto calls on the next govt to create a Community Power Act to strengthen community rights. This act will give new rights for communities to take control of local spaces, shape public services, and control local investment. Find out more: locality.org.uk/locality-manif…

🔋New fund supports community businesses to ‘go green!’👏

Co-operatives UK, Crowdfunder UK and Access are supporting societies investing in low carbon measures for their business via @comshares offers.
More info 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/funds/energy-e… #comshares @comshares

We're backing We're Right Here: the campaign for community power's campaign for community power, because politics needs to change: right-here.org/supporters/

Local people should be given the powers to shape the places where they live - but are too often left voiceless.

That's why we need a Community Power Act.

Great piece by Locality in today's The Guardian putting forward the case made so well by communities themselves via We're Right Here: the campaign for community power

But our centralised politics hampers these efforts. We need a Community Power Act to push powers into communities and create Community Covenants, so local people would share powers over services, funding and development with local authorities.
We're Right Here: the campaign for community power

Our report in The Guardian today shows turnout is lowest in more disadvantaged areas, and how community organisations offer a beacon of hope.
To overcome disengagement they ask people what they want, and create the spaces & services to help them achieve it
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

We're Right Here: the campaign for community power: The Community Power Act is the missing piece of the devolution puzzle – it will build a clear and trusted track along which power can be devolved from Whitehall to regions, local areas and all the way to the neighbourhood level. (3/3)

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With many local and mayoral elections underway, Prof Tony Travers tells The @Guardian: 'The degree of centralisation in England is a national embarrassment that undermines trust in democracy. Polling is clear: most people would like more power to be devolved locally,' 🧵(1/3)

A Community Power Act would give communities three new rights:

🛒 A Community Right to Buy
📣 A Community Right to Shape Public Services
💰 A Community Right to Control Investment

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“We need proper control over land & buildings & then amazing things will happen” - Deana Bamford

A Community Right to Buy would give communities the right of first refusal once local spaces with significant community value come up for sale 💰

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'Power that once sat with a small group of people in the public health team will now sit with the community directly affected.'

Ben's story of putting the community at the heart of service design in Essex ✍

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#CommunityCommissioning