Seeking Abundance: Life Affirming Community Tech Takeaways
The fifth in a blog series on community tech, Global Majority communities and how we might seek abundance together, including key takeaways from the series and a framework to help you get involved in the conversation.
Seeking Abundance: What Does Being Resourced Look and Feel Like?
The fourth in a blog series on community tech, Global Majority communities and how we might seek abundance together, including what it means to be genuinely resourced within the sector.
Seeking Abundance: Exploring Realities and Options for Community Tech
The third in a blog series exploring Life Affirming Community Tech. In this post we look at what’s inspiring us as well as what’s holding us back in the sector.
Seeking Abundance: Collective Dreams for Community Tech
The second in a blog series exploring topics that arose from a roundtable discussion on community tech, Global Majority communities and how we might seek abundance together. This post talks about collective dreaming.
Seeking Abundance: What Is Life Affirming Community Tech
The first in a new blog series. Insights from a roundtable discussion exploring how community tech can dismantle oppressions and support us all to thrive - and how you can get involved.
2023 Roundup: Growing a Community of Practice
A look back at what we’ve been up to with our growing community of practice in 2023.
Community Tech Community of Practice – Reflections on our Autumn Gathering
We brought together over 70 people to celebrate the spirit of collaboration and curiosity at our Community Tech Community of Practice Autumn Gathering.
Roundtable reflections: place-based community innovation
We brought together a roundtable with members of our community of practice to explore and understand what place-based community innovation is, and how we can best support it.
New funding opportunity: Community Tech Discovery Fund
Applications for the Community Tech Discovery Fund open on Thursday 1st June!
Community Tech meets Digital Sustainability: A Green Handbook for Community Tech Practitioners
Today we’re launching a new Green Handbook for community tech practitioners, commissioned by Promising Trouble and Power to Change, and produced by the Green Web Foundation.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Tamar Grow Local
Tamar Grow Local is a community interest company based in the Tamar Valley, which includes parts of rural Cornwall and Devon and the City of Plymouth.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Friends of Stretford Public Hall
Friends of Stretford Public Hall aims to improve the lives of local residents by providing opportunities for employment, access to arts, local heritage & support services, as well as to enhance opportunities for regeneration through preservation of the Grade-II listed Victorian building.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Signalise Co-op
Signalise Co-op is a unique co-operative, owned by Deaf people and providing British Sign Language interpreting services to people living on Merseyside. It is the only service in the UK to have Deaf people as members and co-owners. Currently, Signalise has 80 Deaf user members and 92 worker members.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Solidaritech CIC
Established in 2017, Solidaritech is proudly rooted in Bradford and serves communities across Yorkshire and the Humber. Solidaritech refurbishes donated technology - such as laptops, smartphones, tablets and computers – for use by asylum seekers and refugees who are facing digital exclusion.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Trinity Community Arts
Trinity Community Arts is an award-winning arts charity established to manage The Trinity Centre. Trinity has a long tradition as a community hub and music venue, using creative participation and cultural engagement as a vehicle for social change.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Carbon Co-op
Carbon Co-op is an energy services and advocacy co-operative that helps people and communities to make the radical reductions in home carbon emissions necessary to avoid runaway climate change.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Knowle West Media Centre
Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) is an arts and technology collective based in the council-built estate of Knowle West in South Bristol. KWMC started 25 years ago with an artist-in-residence, exploring practice around voice, identity, empowerment through camera technology.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Equal Care Co-op
Equal Care Co-op provides care and support at home and in the community, and is on a mission to put power in the hands of people who give and receive care across Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable started in 2014 as an alternative to corporately-owned local media. It produces online and print journalism, made by and for the residents of Bristol. The Cable is fully owned by its members, over 2000 of them, and is run as a workers’ cooperative.
Meet the Makers & Maintainers: Community TechAid
Community TechAid is one of ten community businesses funded by the Power To Change Makers & Maintainers programme, which supports community businesses who are already on a journey of creating community tech – technology that can meet their specific needs, respects their autonomy and creates value that sticks to places.