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Who are we?
Supported by
@juliandobson
@johnpopham
@sospot
@dosticen@davidwilcox
@LadyLowe
@watfordgap
@philralph
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How did we start?• Day 1: 1 blog post• Day 2: 4 people in a café• Day 4: Online forum launched• Day 12: 100 people attend event• July 2012: 20,000 web visits to online
forum• Today: 594 members
…all pretty much for free
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Limited resources• Spend to date: approx £129 online
costs, travel, CDX support• Freebies: Venues & food, eventbrite,
logo/brand, goodwill…
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From north focus to Our Society
• Started as Big Society in the North• Interest from Dudley, the South West
and other areas• Wanted to step away from and
challenge the Big Society label
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Is Big Society a “dead parrot”?
I’m not an ex parrot!
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Challenge: Identity v. ownership
• We are not an organisation• Individual opinion• Clear mission statement• Links to local networks• Save the baby!
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Our Society in Dudley Borough
• LSP sign up• Our Society
Steering Group• Our Society
Planning Group• In job descriptions
and work plans
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Our Society in Dudley Borough
• Activity to test change and develop evidence
• Working with senior decision-makers • Visit from Cabinet Office • Voluntary Sector Network event • Celebrating community activity • Developing Dudley Council’s
approach
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Community Rights project
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Community Rights project
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Our Society: A Guide• Policy context and drivers, vision and
approach• Identifying existing and new social assets• Rethinking structures as networks/systems • Changing roles • Methods (toolkits, frameworks, knowledge
hub)• Practical steps which Dudley can take
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Community Lover’s Guide
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Social Spaces game
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Social Spaces game
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Arts
groups
and
citizens
can do
this
togethe
r
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1. Arts groups
can do this
in partnership
2. Support we
would like…
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@[email protected] 573381
Join Our Society: www.oursociety.org.uk
Join the local discussion: www.oursocietydudley.org.uk