Community resources UK

This article focuses on information specific to the United Kingdom. Please see our Community resources page for a topic overview.

Library of things

Library of Things is a women-led circular economy start-up affordably renting out useful items like drills, sound systems and sewing machines from high street hubs like libraries. Having developed the service in London since 2016, we are now working with local authorities, businesses and communities to bring borrowing to every neighbourhood that wants it. This is all part of fulfilling our mission to make borrowing better than buying – for individuals, communities and the planet. [1]

Resources

Funding

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Community Shares

Networks

Community Matters, nationwide federation of community organisations

Community Media Association, UK membership association for community broadcasting. The CMA is a non-profit making organisation, supporting Community Radio, Television and community-based Internet projects. W

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Community Land Trust Network

Seeds For Change, network of non-profit training and support co-operatives which help people organise for action and positive social change. "We concentrate on working with grassroots environmental and social justice activists to help increase their effectiveness in campaigning and bringing about lasting positive change." Briefings and guides are @nti-copyright. "Please feel free to copy, adapt and distribute them as long as the final work remains @nti-copyright."

Quotes

"One day soon, our high streets, parks, libraries, housing hubs, train stations, and cafes will become spaces for us to meet, repair, make, borrow, lend, grow, bake, reflect, care, and eat together." Rebecca Trevalyan FRSA [2]

"Most people participate in their communities not as part of organised groups, but in doing acts of kindness" Professor Carolyn Kagan, Professor of Community Social Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Video

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News and comment

2020

Tomorrow Today Streets, Creating essential micro-infrastructure for post Covid 19 neighbourhoods, TessyBritton [3] 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. [4] May 10

💚 We don’t need institutes, we need constitutes… and they should live in a Makar House, Pat Kane. [5] Mar 16 ...Scotland news

2019

Library of Things is helping UK go zero waste. [6] Nov 29

"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. [12] Jan 3 ...Towards sustainable economies news

2018

The Common Room — designing a future for all ages, Oct 2 [13] ...Social inclusion UK

Britain’s shared spaces are vanishing, leaving us a nation of cliques, John Harris, Sep 4 [14]

What kind of space can welcome a diverse community? Apr 28 [15] ...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 [16]

Why Smart City London should be a #NetworkedCity: participatory, sharing, inclusive and accessible, Feb 9 [17]


2017

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

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

2015

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

Campaigns

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Library of Things press release, Nov 28, 2019
  2. ↑ RSA
  3. ↑ medium.com
  4. ↑ thealternative.org.uk
  5. ↑ thealternative.org.uk
  6. ↑ Library of Things press release, Nov 28, 2019
  7. ↑ The Alternative UK
  8. ↑ birmingham.impacthub.net
  9. ↑ The Guardian
  10. ↑ 3dprintingindustry.com
  11. ↑ The Guardian
  12. ↑ Shareable
  13. ↑ @agenoretirement
  14. ↑ The Guardian
  15. ↑ The Alternative UK
  16. ↑ networkedcity.blog
  17. ↑ connectinglondoners.blog
  18. ↑ Shareable
  19. ↑ Shareable
  20. ↑ RSA
  21. ↑ Shareable
  22. ↑ Nesta
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