A Community Power Act would:

✅ Legitimise & encourage action taken by local communities

✅ Commit the Govt to transferring substantive decision-making powers to the neighbourhood level

✅ Address power imbalances within our system of government

🚨4 days left to apply🚨

We're recruiting Community Champions to help us build the movement for community power 💪

Are you passionate about the power of local people?

Do you have a story to tell?

Find out more & apply by 15 April 👉 right-here.org/become-a-commu…

It will be a huge loss if the Long Table in Stroud has to close because of a change of ownership for their base! Another case of a community wanting to buy an asset that means so much to them, and not being able to do so. This is why we need a #CommunityRightToBuy !
We're Right Here: the campaign for community power

Labour's plan is good, but for communities to #TakeBackTheHighStreet we need:

✅ A strong Community Right to Buy
✅ A level playing field with business rates
🤩 A British High Street Investment Vehicle
🤩 More Community Improvement Districts

Our plan👇
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There is already a large & growing movement of people around the country taking action in their communities.

A Community Power Act would remove some of the institutional & legal barriers in their way.

👉 right-here.org/asks/

COMMUNITY SHARES 💸 | Last year we relaunched the Booster Fund for #CommunityShares alongside Co-operatives UK Access, backing community investment that positively impacts people’s lives.

Explore some of the stories from the Community Shares Unit 👇
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New 📽️: COMMUNITY POWER: TOP QUESTIONS - ANSWERED!

Adam Lent tackles the #communitypower FAQs that come up as he travels the country.

From benefits, to real-life examples, to political appetite + more!

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'We are going to put ourselves on the map and say you know what - come and have a look at what we have done because we have achieved it as a community.'

📹Inside Grimsby's housing revolution where the community is stepping in to tackle the housing crisis.

We need to reset the foundations of public policy.

So it supports and incubates the solutions that are already there in our communities, rather than always starting with a blank sheet of paper in Whitehall.

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Last chance to join We're Right Here: the campaign for community power as a Community Champions - part of the movement for community power ⭐

Apply by Monday 15 April 👇

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Want proof of why a Community Power Act would make a difference?

Just ask the people fighting for positive local change, in a system that's too-often working against them.

right-here.org/asks

📣 “Community power is about local people from grassroots who day in, day out strive for the benefit of the community – giving them more power, more support, more connections for them to continue to make the difference in the community.” - inayat omarji MBE

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Have you read about our plans for a Community Power Act? Ft:

💪 New community rights over spaces, services & spending

🤝 Power-sharing deals between councils & communities

👀 A commissioner to hold government to account

Read more/show support ➡️ right-here.org/asks

Labour's plan to power up Britain focuses on agglomeration and the economic pillar of 'levelling up'. Some thoughts from me on how they could bolster the civic pillar too, so people can see and feel tangible change in their local area and that they are in control.

🚨Opportunity alert 🚨

We're recruiting Community Champions to help us build the movement for community power 💪

Are you passionate about the power of local people?

Do you have a story to tell?

Find out more & apply by 15 April 👉 right-here.org/become-a-commu…

Our Community Power Act would give communities a say over the public services they want and need.

Like Natascha in Bournemouth, where the community came together to offer vital affordable, accessible transport to local hospitals.

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We're Right Here (We're Right Here: the campaign for community power) are recruiting Community Champions to help build a team of passionate and committed advocates for community power.

If you are empowering local people in your community, join the movement.

'We’ve created a closed-loop economy. We’ve proved the ownership of bricks & mortar is powerful, and it can sustain long-term change led by local people.'

How Heeley Trust took on local Sheffield spaces & built pride, wealth & wellbeing in the process.

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Brilliant opportunity to join We're Right Here: the campaign for community power!

We're Right Here is recruiting a group of Community Champions to help build the movement for community power ⭐

Find out more about the role and apply by 15th April 🖱️

right-here.org/become-a-commu…

'Creating a sense of community and cohesion has fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of local businesses. We need them more than ever to fill a hole that has been created by decades of creeping social atomisation.' 📰👇