FreeRiver Consulting

Founded by Nick Laffan, we offer carefully crafted training and wide-ranging support for individuals, organisations and communities.

[FreeRiver Consulting @FreeRiverLtd]

Download our Guides to Great #Listening and #Empowering Others for #free!
https://t.co/IzMDvpE2Ox

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

Great to see a Lifetime Skills Guarantee recognised in the #QueensSpeech.

Using the @Skills_Builder framework we are exploring how a National #CommunityOrganising Apprenticeship can achieve personal and social impact for young people and communities

https://t.co/jTc9tTBnQs

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

The Award in #CommunityOrganising is now online! And we are thrilled to have welcomed 14 learners to the first cohort.
Together we will be looking into the origins & theory around community organising & reflecting on how to apply this learning in our different contexts.

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

As the #COVID restrictions lift slowly and, for some, the light at the end of tunnel is in sight, 80+ members of the #CommunityOrganisers network came together to explore what a roadmap for communities could look like post-pandemic.

Find out more below:
https://t.co/iq3w7SwRXx

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

One year ago today the World Health Organisation declared a global pandemic - despite some of the biggest health, economic and social challenges we have faced local communities have self-organised to respond to the crisis

Here is a snapshot from the #communityorganising network.

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

We are delighted introduce Nick Laffan as our new Head of the National Academy of #CommunityOrganising - Nick's experience of community organising and leadership development will be essential as we support communities to build back from the pandemic

https://t.co/gAZT5ZtDO2

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

We are delighted that @NickGardham has the opportunity to share the #OperationWifi ask for a national databank of surplus data supporting those who need it the most at @appgleftbehind chaired by @DianaJohnsonMP & @PaulHowellMP Join us to make this happen https://t.co/b3baWsx2wQ

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

In 2020 we set out the need for an ambitious communities' strategy. As we look ahead to 2021, @NickGardham CEO of Community Organisers outlines why we need to unleash the potential of the power of place now, if we are to #BuildBackBetter from the pandemic

https://t.co/zFppxi5sUn

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

#Communityorganising has a key role in building long term relationships at a local level necessary for building #communitypower. It is why we and our network of Social Action Hubs believe a Community Organising Apprenticeship is vital in supporting #leftbehind neighbourhoods

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

"#COVID19 and a second lockdown risks exacerbating the #digitaldivide and leaving millions socially and economically vulnerable"

CEO of #CommunityOrganisers @NickGardham sets out why the #OperationWiFi campaign is needed now more than ever.

https://t.co/Mwtnf05ar0

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At the heart of #communityorganising is the intentional building of community power. Starting on Tuesday 10th November we are hosting two sessions exploring what power is, and, how it can be built from the grassroots up to bring about change. Sign up here: https://t.co/jkpMK1sijF

[FreeRiver Consulting @FreeRiverLtd]

@BloomInArt1 @corganisers @Love_Hartlepool Congratulations!!

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Join us for our "Listening Skills for #CommunityOrganising" course starting on the 26th October.

Over three sessions we will be exploring how to build listening campaigns, find leaders and engage people to take action

https://t.co/wLSsPBO7hh

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

Our communities are built on the basis of relational power - the willingness to act together in the common good - this cannot be replicated within and by our institutions. Institutions need to learn how both relational power and unilateral power can work together and be shared

[Vision for Volunteering @VisionForVol]

Check out this video. How much unused mobile data do you have every month that you can't roll forward? Would you donate your unused data so that one of the estimated 5m in the UK who have never been online (ONS data) could get online? Bet you would. How could you refuse?

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Hear our CEO, @NickGardham, ask @OliverDowden how the Government intends to build trust in local communities and restore relationships between people and institutions during @ukonward's launch of the State of the Social Fabric report published yesterday https://t.co/5gmrUnHeDf

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

We have just launched our #COBitesize series of short 45 minute sessions exploring the practice and principles of #communityorganising and what underpins the approach.

To sign up and take part follow the link below:

https://t.co/VH3UzLvcri

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

5 million adults in the UK do not have access to the internet - The growing alliance of over 100 civil society organisations that support #OperationWifi is calling for the creation of a CitizenSim enabling phone users to donate their unused data.

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

Across the 3 years of the CO Expansion Programme we trained almost 4000 people in #communityorganising inspiring many more to use the skills they learned to get involved and take action in their communities from developing social supermarkets to taking action to improve housing

[FreeRiver Consulting @FreeRiverLtd]

Loved working with you on this @corganisers @The_Annexe @ComRootsCIC

[Community Organisers (archive - not active) @corganisers]

JUST PUBLISHED!
Between March 2017 and March 2020, with funding from @DCMS and in partnership with 22 Social Action Hubs and a wide range of partners we have trained over 3,500 people in #communityorganising!

Read the full Programme Reports here:
https://t.co/Woc7h5RnNr

[FreeRiver Consulting @FreeRiverLtd]

@corganisers @helenbevan @KotterInc Really enjoyed it! Thank you @corganisers