jess steele, locality people’s history museum, 3 rd march 2011 community organisers
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Jess Steele, Locality
People’s History Museum, 3rd March 2011
Community Organisers
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Community OrganisingOrganisers listen to people and encourage dialogue. They do not bring any message or seek any specific outcome. Consciousness-raising rather than capacity-building. Find the ‘generative themes’ that motivate people to act.Change ‘the bad scene’ into a specific set of issues that people can take action around.Actions may aim to change the powerful or to create a DIY response, or both.
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Guiding Lights• Based on Paulo Freire (Brazilian
educator) – Pedagogy of the Oppressed – listening, dialogue, consciousness-raising
• Saul Alinsky (Chicago rebel) – Rules for Radicals, tactics for effective organising
• Clodomir Santos de Morais – A Future for the Excluded – entrepreneurial awareness, wealth creation by the poor
Drawing on these and other theory & practice to create an indigenous English 21st century community organising movement.
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Elements of the programme
• Training• Hosting• Networking• Institute for Community
Organising• Learning & Policy Group
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Training Framework• Learning bursaries (£20k x 500) – not salaries• Training for transformation• Blend of residential, guided actions, e-
sessions, action camps and knowledge hub• Trainer network managed by Trafford Hall• Accreditation to be developed with OCN YHR• Signpost to progression via academic partners• Code of conduct
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Hosting Approach• COs need ‘a place to be’. Hosted by community-
led orgs – mutual benefits, mutual challenge• 10 Kickstarters – places/orgs identified for the bid
to provide range and get started quickly• Second tranche of Kickstarters – focus more on
equalities groups via Network Partners• Will be 100-200 additional hosts over the lifetime
of the programme• All hosts receive 4 days of Locality support to plan
for resilience & sustainability of the CO roles.
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Networking Support• Organising is about building and mobilising
local networks – ‘horizontalism’• Web & social media – Holding page
www.dta.org.uk/communityorganisers– Twitter - @corganisers, #corg and #corganisers– Blog – see http://jesssteele.wordpress.com/– Facebook – page coming in a few days
• Experience of networking, peer learning, mutual support
• Lessons Log/Knowledge Hub (wiki)
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Institute for Community Organising
• A 21st century Guild, a professional body assuring quality and providing ongoing training and support
• A mutual – owned by COs themselves• Shares retained each year that they maintain
their CPD (ie stay active and engaged)• Brand developed in parallel with the
programme, with a year of independent trading in 2014-15
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Learning & Policy Group• High-level group of academics and policy-
shapers, serviced by Manchester Met Uni• Drawing out the lessons from the programme
and feeding them into policy (both Big Society and other fields)
• Chaired by Professor Anne Power, LSE• Other members include: Marj Mayo
(Goldsmiths), Toby Blume (Urban Forum), Tricia Zipfel (Just Change)
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Timescales
•Initiation – Feb-April 11•Kickstart phase
first 10 training – Jun-Oct 11second tranche – Nov 11-Apr 12
•Hosted delivery phase – Feb 12-Mar 15new cohorts start every 2 months
•ICO Year of Trading – Apr 14-Mar 15•Closure & final handover – Mar-Jun 15