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Footwork @FootworkTrust

Footwork supports community innovators to turn their bold ideas into lasting positive change for people and places

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Footwork@FootworkTrust
6 Jun 2024
🙌 17 community innovators ⏰ 55 minutes 🍽️ 129 workshop participants 💡 1000s of recipes for community powered neighbourhood transformation. Thanks @wearenewlocal #StrongerThings for having us.
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🥾Last month @FootworkTrust and @platformplaces peers convened in the Liverpool City Region for a field trip ✨ a day dedicated to connecting, inspiring and learning from the city’s thriving community-led initiatives 1/ 🧵
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🏘️ An afternoon with Liam Kelly of @makeCIC was spent touring their Make Hamilton space ✨Once abandoned building, now repurposed into a vibrant community hub offering affordable studio spaces, workshops and event spaces for creatives 3/ 🧵
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🔗 Follow the link below to read on footwork.org.uk/post/made-in… @brightboxmaker @bigriverbakery @othercinemas @Yorspace @CoalvilleCANCBS @azuko_org #PeopleandPlace #LocalPropertyPartnerships

Made in Liverpool: Footwork field trip | Footwork Trust

On Friday 20th September, peers from Footwork’s People and Place programme and Platform Places convened en masse in Liverpool for a field trip. A day dedicated to connecting, inspiring and learning...

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Thank you @CIVIC_SQUARE for the most generous, mind-expanding bundle of texts📚 @Footwork were lucky enough to spend a weekend in Machynlleth with the Ecological Health in Neighbourhoods peers - sharing and connecting with those driving community led neighbourhood transformation
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⏰ Applications for People and Place 2025 will close tomorrow on Monday 9th September at 11:59 pm 🔗 in bio to find out more 👇Hear what Laurie Smith of @Yorspace , a People and Place 2024 peer, has to say about Footwork’s programme of support
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⏰ There is just one week left to apply to People and Place 2025 ⏰ 🏘️Are you working to deliver long-term change for your neighbourhood? Footwork’s programme of support may be just what you need 🔗in bio for more
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🔋power.film are turning their street into a power station by giving out free solar panels 👔 yodomo.co is providing free unused textiles to insulate homes and reduce heating costs Sound familiar? People and Place could be for you! 🔗in bio for more
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🧩 In South Woodford Jo, @azuko_org is crafting a unique, community-led design code 👥The Southwark Planning Network are connecting community groups and residents to engage with local planning developments Sound familiar? People and Place could be for you! 🔗in bio for more
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🏠@Yorspace are bringing a collective ownership model to York's housing market, tackling rising house prices 🏫 @sistermidnightt are turning a former working men’s club into a community-owned music venue Sound familiar? People and Place could be for you! 🔗 in bio for more
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"Just having someone there saying we believe in you, and you can do it, makes such a huge difference when you are tackling challenging and seemingly impossible situations in your place" Considering applying to People and Place 2025? Join us online on Friday to find out more👇
Footwork@FootworkTrust
1 Aug 2024
Working to transform your neighbourhood? Then People and Place 2025 might just be for you! Online on 09 August 13:00 - 13:30, we will discuss what’s included in the programme of support and run through how to apply Head to Eventbrite to book your spot eventbrite.co.uk/o/footwork-…
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Working to transform your neighbourhood? Then People and Place 2025 might just be for you! Online on 09 August 13:00 - 13:30, we will discuss what’s included in the programme of support and run through how to apply Head to Eventbrite to book your spot eventbrite.co.uk/o/footwork-…
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Platform Places@platformplaces
1 Aug 2024
We're looking for a Programme Lead for exciting, newly-funded work to transform town centre buildings for local benefit — thanks to @TNLComFund 🏡🌆 Ideal start: Sept '24 Pay: £50k pro rata Find out more & apply by 27 August! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #JobVacancy
Text over a pretty town centre picture reads: Platform Places is recruiting a Programme Lead. £50k pro rata, 4 days a week, hybrid remote/in London. Apply by 27th August. The logo of the programme funder, National Lottery Community Fund, appears alongside Platforom Places

ALT Text over a pretty town centre picture reads: Platform Places is recruiting a Programme Lead. £50k pro rata, 4 days a week, hybrid remote/in London. Apply by 27th August. The logo of the programme funder, National Lottery Community Fund, appears alongside Platforom Places
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Paul Hamlyn Foundation@phf_uk
22 Jul 2024
🎉Applications are open to People & Place 2025 Do you have a bold idea to deliver long-term change in your neighbourhood? @FootworkTrust provides 1-2-1 support, an unrestricted £5K grant and a peer network of community innovators Find out more & apply👇 buff.ly/3Wg4I00
Two people sit chatting on a roof at twilight lit by living room lamps. White text reads: People & Place 2025. Applications now open: footwork.org.uk/peopleandplace2025. Footwork Trust logo is in the lower right corner.

ALT Two people sit chatting on a roof at twilight lit by living room lamps. White text reads: People & Place 2025. Applications now open: footwork.org.uk/peopleandplace2025. Footwork Trust logo is in the lower right corner.
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Would you like to join the @FootworkTrust People and Place programme next year? People and Place supports people whose experience of an issue has motivated them to take action. Applications close on Monday 9 September at 11:59pm. footwork.org.uk/peopleandpla…
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Platform Places@platformplaces
16 Jul 2024
🎊 Applications are now OPEN for @FootworkTrust 'People & Place' 2025! Got a bold idea for a transformative project in your neighbourhood? Access 1-2-1 support, an unrestricted £5k grant & a peer network of community innovators! Find out more & apply: buff.ly/3Wg4I00
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Footwork’s programme of support, People and Place, is now open for applications to 2025! Are you working to deliver long-term change for your neighbourhood? People and Place may just be the programme for you. To find out more visit footwork.org.uk/peopleandpla…
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Connecting, platforming and learning with peers @ #StirtoAction in Bristol this week With @platformplaces we discussed our collective asks and offers for alternative pathways to neighbourhood development (Something exciting is brewing at Footwork. Find out more on Monday!)
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Thursday’s Footworking event on Housing Justice was heartfelt and grounded in lived experience 🧡
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7 day countdown until Footwork's factory doors open to the public. Space shapers, grant makers, policy creators. This applies to all of us. It’s free for all, whatever your stripes. Go on, reserve a spot👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/home-plan…

Home Planet: How can we innovate to address housing injustice?

A hands-on Footworking event to explore inventive ideas to tackle housing injustice.

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