Community Projects
Succession Beats Recruitment in Small Local Groups
Most groups respond to losing people by advertising for more. Building replacements before they are needed works considerably…
Community Projects
Small local efforts, how they start, and why some of them last.
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Community Projects
The Group Chat Is Your Infrastructure, and Nobody Backs It Up
Most small community projects run on a messaging app owned by one person's phone number. That arrangement fails in predictable and…
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Why Free Labour Still Needs a Budget
Volunteer-run projects describe themselves as costing nothing and then quietly spend money. The costs are real, predictable and…
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Working With the Council Without Being Absorbed by It
Local authority support brings premises, funding and credibility along with process, timelines and a relationship that can quietly…
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The Community Event That Loses Money and Still Works
Judging a local event purely on its takings misses most of what it produced. It also lets groups repeat events that genuinely…
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Who Owns the Equipment When a Group Falls Out
Informal groups accumulate tools, keys, money and accounts without ever deciding who owns them. The question only gets asked at the…
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Consultation Fatigue: Why Nobody Comes to the Meeting Any More
Communities repeatedly asked for their views and shown no consequence stop responding. The withdrawal is rational and is usually…
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Every Local Project Reaches the Same Fifty People First
New community activity attracts the residents already involved in everything else. Getting beyond them is a different task…
Community Projects
Handing a Project to a Bigger Organisation Without Losing It
Transferring a community project to an established charity solves capacity problems and creates new ones. The terms of the handover…