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The Global Citizens’ Assembly Deep Dives on Food and Climate
What do people around the world want from the future of food? Explore what emerged when citizen deliberation, lived experience and wider participatory practice were brought into conversation with one another.
What 8 years in Rochdale taught us about Good Help
This report explores how Rochdale embedded the Good Help Model across its public service landscape, showing how councils can move beyond crisis management towards a more relational, community-powered approach to delivering support.
Our public services are in crisis. Rochdale’s Good Help Movement holds the key to solving it
While public services struggle nationwide, Rochdale has quietly built a different model — one rooted in trust, prevention and community that is improving lives while costing remarkably little.
Global Citizens’ Assembly to tackle the future of Food and Climate
People from more than 60 countries with a wide range of incomes, ages and backgrounds are gathering for the first Global Citizens Assembly on the future of food systems – with their findings due to inform the next annual climate talks taking place in Turkey.
People in the lead
A Citizens’ Track to strengthen the global climate regime as COP30 legacy
Global Citizens’ Assembly
Global challenges need citizen leadership. Global Assemblies link local voices to global climate action.
Not all democracy is good - it’s time to hone our senses
To meet today's complex challenges, we need to see democracy as a system impacting many aspects of our lives, and be able to distinguish the good from the bad.
Ordinary Hope: A Mission to Rebuild
Britain needs hope. Of that there seems very little doubt. But what kind of hope does it need?
Civic Activism in an Intensifying Climate Crisis
Climate activism is employing a wider variety of tactics and aiming at a broader set of goals.
How Could We? Build democratic systems that address the polycrisis?
To meet today's complex challenges, we need to see democracy as a system impacting many aspects of our lives, and be able to distinguish the good from the bad.
Why we set up Involve, and why it’s needed more than ever
Our democracies need to be able to address today's big issues of climate, health, equity and AI.
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