Guest Article: How a Warm Welcome laid the foundations of Community Power

As part of the <a href="https://www.warmwelcome.uk/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Warm Welcome Campaign</a> last winter, <a href="https://www.civicpower.org.uk/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Civic Power Fund</a> and <a href="https://goodfaith.org.uk/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Good Faith Partnership</a> joined forces to explore the potential for community organising within Warm Spaces. Pooling funding from the <a href="https://www.jrf.org.uk/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Joseph Rowntree Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://trustforlondon.org.uk/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Trust for London</a>, and the <a href="https://www.jrrt.org.uk/what-we-do/jrsst-ct/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">JRSST-CT</a>, 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. <a href="https://medium.com/civic-power-fund/guest-article-how-a-warm-welcome-laid-the-foundations-of-community-power-fe0d7c2b1d09">Website</a>