This article is an offshoot from Community involvement UK and is for resources in that context. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages...Near you. Resources for community involvement covers global or international resources.

How to's

• Self-Organising System of extinctionrebellion.uk, added 17:22, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
• Summer of Community: resources from Trust The People

Video

Relationships: the missing piece of the wellbeing puzzle

Authors: ukmentalhealth, Sep 5, 2016

We Make Our Places What They Are

Authors: Kirklees Democracy, Oct 13, 2021

What is community power? Animation

Authors: New Local, Mar 3, 2021

Maps for community action

• The Civic Crowd, aims to map initiatives and ideas for citizen-powered change, providing an open public domain resource
• DCLG Community Rights

Inspiring quotes

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.", Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Where democracy counts most it is nowhere to be seen…by the time we are asked for our opinion, there will be little left to discuss but the colour of the road signs". George Monbiot...The Guardian

...see also Quotes about community action and the power of community

Research

• Britain Talks Climate & Nature 2025, In-depth analysis: How Brits think and feel about climate and nature and the strategic implications for policy and communication. climateoutreach.org

• Consultation and engagement, climateoutreach.org

• Public Square, demsoc.org, action research, sharing learning in the UK and beyond. Work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Democratic Society, known as Demsoc, is an international non-profit association, Registered office in Brussels. added 14:48, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
• We're all in this together: harnessing user and community co - production of public outcomes, Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler, June 2013 birmingham.ac.uk
• Democratic Audit, independent research organisation, established as a not-for-profit company, and based at the London School of Economics. "Our core objective is to advance education, and to undertake and promote research into, the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy."
• Community Power, research from newlocal.org.uk, added 13:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC), Publications tagged 'Community Power', newlocal.org.uk, tagged 'Community Voices', newlocal.org.uk

Other resources

• Skills for Care and Nurture Development invitation: Making the invisible visible where you live, April 16, 2021, nurturedevelopment.org, Community mapping graphic and downloadable blank version to map resources in your local community, skillsforcare.org.uk, added 15:05, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
• Bridge Builder's Handbook, relationshipsproject.org, added 15:00, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
• Citizens' House in Parliament, added 12:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
• Breaking the Mould, One Day Conference held at Frome Town Hall, April 2018
• Heading Upstream, Barnsley's Innovations for Social Justice, 2017 centreforwelfarereform.org
• In This Together, 11 July 2011, neweconomics.org, tells the stories of people who are improving public services by working with the people who use them and delivering public services in a radically different way. It describes a range of practical projects and includes personal testimonies from individuals directly involved. These examples have at their heart equal and reciprocal relationships between professionals, people using services, their families and neighbours – an approach known as 'co-production'.
• Participation Works, 21 Techniques to encourage community participation, 14 June, 1998 added 17:05, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
• Open and accountable local government: plain English guide, GOV.UK - A guide for the press and public on attending and reporting meetings of local government.
• Placecheck
• WriteToThem provides contact details for elected representatives at all levels of UK government, and users can send messages to them directly from the site. ^W
• This is the #CitizenShift, by New Citizenship Project
• Resources from involve.org.uk

Past events

• Pop Up Tomorrow

Funding community action

• Local Trust, a place-based funder. "We work with 150 Big Local areas, where people are making their communities even better places to live."

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