‘Tomorrows Communities: Lessons for Community Based Transformation in the Age of Global Crises’.
Deeper Democracy members Henry Tam, Gabriel Chanan, Diane Warburton and Colin Miller, are delighted to be involved in contributing to this important and wide ranging new book.
A brief outline by members of the Deeper Democracy Group of a series of proposals that the government urgently needs to adopt to support communities during this time of crises and beyond.
Will Community Engagement Be the Greatest Positive To Come Out of This Pandemic? Nick Beddow, a member of our Deeper Democracy Group, talks to Chris
Today we proudly launch our new pamphlet ‘Participation at 45 degrees: techniques for citizen-led change’.
We argue that we urgently need to create a more participatory and deliberative democracy and explore the role of participatory practice in supporting the change.
Our democratic system is in crisis. Many people blame Brexit, but the problems have been long in the making. Too many people and communities feel
A core founding principle both of community development and community organising is the commitment to help empower communities through collective and participative action and practice.
Community Development Practitioner Matt Scott argues that:
1. democracy needs closer definition
2. to meet the challenges presented by technology we need to move from our existing. Victorian based systems
3. democracy is about community development, where local ties and collective action need to come to the fore in order for democracy to haver all meaning in peoples lives