ACTionism co-founder. Using social media and building movements for changemakers+ non-fiction authors 💪
Community-hubs
Sparks Bristol, has one clear aim: to hand the high street back to the people actually trying to change things. The message is consistent and practical: the answers to big systemic problems often start with small, skilled, communal acts.
Events
Two of Bristol's most beloved slow-fashion makers, Meret from Rethrindle who run sustainable fashion workshops and Lisa from Rebel Patch, are joining forces to open the Slow Fashion Studio — a brand-new workshop space and reclaimed fabric shop, nestled inside Sparks Bristol.
Community-hubs
Top tips on how to set up and run a repair cafe in your community.
Learning
Greener & Cleaner (stars of our last Spotlight call) are developing a comprehensive blueprint package to encourage others to set up hubs like theirs.Â
Organisations and Initiatives
Small actions like these, show others it's worth taking pride in where they live. What small action can you take in your community today?
Organisations and Initiatives
Drop Dead Generous is a UK-based social enterprise giving £500 grants to 1,000 people worldwide to carry out creative acts of kindness - a half-million-dollar experiment in whether generosity is truly contagious - and if it can bring people together to create more kindness and more action.
Events
Discover how social cinema and community workshops transform audiences into movement builders.
Community-hubs
From pub chats to a thriving community hub serving 30,000+ people. Parisa Wright shares lessons from Greener & Cleaner in Bromley and how you can access free support, blueprints and a new England-wide network to start your own community hub.
Community-hubs
Want to set up or strengthen a community hub? Parisa Wright shares six years of Greener & Cleaner learnings through FREE blueprints, consultations, and a support network. Find out how to access support here.
Organisations and Initiatives
Common Ground: a group of women in Devon are starting conversations on the street to show we have more in common than divides us
newsletter
The best bits of the #CitizenFuture we've spotted this week. including our spotlight, A brand new podcast. How ‘angry women’ are bringing people together on the streets of Devon. An invite to host an ACTionism screening in your community
Guides
In one of our popular spotlight calls, Emma Bearman from Playful Anywhere explored how play functions as a quiet revolutionary tool - a Trojan horse that dissolves barriers between strangers and creates space for collective imagination.