As part of the Warm Welcome Campaign last winter, Civic Power Fund and Good Faith Partnership joined forces to explore the potential for community organising within Warm Spaces.
Pooling funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Trust for London, and the JRSST-CT, we funded community organising pilots in five areas across the UK. These pilots focussed on Listening Campaigns led by local organising partners across key Warm Welcome Spaces.
In this piece, we have summarised what happened as part of this pilot and the major lessons we learnt about how community organising can embed within organic, civic spaces. We are extremely grateful to our Learning Partner, Liz Griffin at Hidden Depths Research. Liz captured the key lessons from this pilot in real time and her observations form the basis of this piece.