Registration & Wrist Bands

Registration & Wrist Bands

Public Health and Social Connections​

Simon Opher & Simon Lennane kick off the festival with a participatory talk about the social context of health and the important role that communities play in keeping people healthy. 

Collaborative Finance

Matthew Slater invites the audience to participate in an engaging workshop on how money works, how mutual credit helps us move away from it and how credit commons protocol can connect it globally.

Commons Governance

Dil Green, an expert in developing commons models invites us to consider what it takes to govern the commons as a community. How various stakeholders can be configured in a way that creates material interdependence and long term stability. 

Innovations in Credit Clearing

Tom Woodroof gives us an update on what Local Loop Merseyside is launching in Liverpool and how businesses can reduce the need for bank money if the trade networks are mapped and credit clearing loops are created.

Lunch

Lunch

Fashion Commons

Sara Arnold, co-founder at Fashion Act Now shares her work in building clothing cultures that nurture people and planet and how we could build a fashion commons.

Liberating Structures

David Heath invites us to come map and imagine how our movement grows together, and learn some practical tools you can use in your own work using innovative, participatory structures.

Innovation in Participatory Democracy

Sonia Bussu, and Tony Cealy invites you to explore the idea of legislative theatre, youth participation and using arts-based methods for social change, highlighting what works and what the challenges are.

Liberating Structures - Continued

Innovation in Participatory Democracy Continued

Financial Commons - Kin Coop

Morning Tea/Coffee and Networking

Morning Tea/Coffee and Networking

Hastings Commons

Jess Steele shares stories from Hastings Commons who've brought over 8,500 square metres of floor space into custodian ownership across a whole cluster of buildings in the centre of Hastings, renovating them to a high quality, offering genuinely affordable rents, and supporting residents and businesses to collaborate and take more control of where they live and work.

TBC

Lunch

Lunch

Incredible Edible and Right to Grow

Pam Warhurst is the cofounder of Incredible Edible with a powerful message 'If you eat, you're in'. Their vision is to create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food. Their recent 'Right to Grow' campaign explores how to release parcels of unloved local authority land effectively so that communities can secure free leases to cultivate the land, and allow those groups to bid for the land should the authority decide to sell it. 

Great Reclamation

Biophysical, economic and social data all point towards an unfolding process of creeping collapse. This situation is not an accident, but a result of economic systems. Rather than demonising an opposition, calling for revolution, or giving up entirely, we can turn to each other to reclaim our ability to meet our needs and aspirations. In communities around the world, this is happening already, and cooperative means of ownership and exchange will be key. Drawing his book Breaking Together, Professor Bendell will claim such initiatives can add up to ‘great reclamation’ of our power, and offer a serious way to respond to the global oligarchy that is hastening collapse. 

Permaculture Association

Chief Executive of the Permaculture Association, member of Leeds Permaculture network and active teacher and designer. Also working in Leeds on the Climate Action Leeds project, developing a city hub - Imagine Leeds - as a climate action hub and space for participatory design.

Island Power

Marcus is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security (ISRS) at University College London (UCL) and Managing Partner of Island Power LLP, a smart energy accelerator of “energy islands” through the integration of new legal design, institutions, funding instruments and technology.

Community-Led Housing

Claude Hendrickson is a community self-build advocate, commissioned to produce a 10-year strategy for Leeds Council around self-build, custom build and community-led housing, and is a founder member of Community Self Build agency. He serves as equality, diversity and inclusion advisor at Leeds Community Homes and the Confederation of Co-op Housing  ​

TBC