Category: Community

I remember standing in the middle of the village green back in ’94, watching a committee spend three hours debating the exact shade of bunting for the marquee while the tea urn sat unpowered and the raffle prizes gathered dust in a damp garage. People think learning how to organise a village fete is about […]

I was sitting in the village hall last Tuesday, watching a young man from the district council try to explain that setting up a local collective required a three-year strategic plan and a formal committee structure. It was nonsense, plain and simple. If you’re sitting there wondering how to start a community group just because […]