Holistic Community Development for Bristol
We are Bristol residents, development professionals, funders, and activists, building a better world together, starting in Bristol neighbourhoods.
Our first projects
We are helping community connectors help their neighbours and make their neighbourhoods better.We are offering the following types of support:
Helping connectors to find the professional expertise and free support they need in the CTRL Shift partners network and among other organisations serving Bristol neighbourhoods.
Providing direct training and support to connectors who are interested in the SONEC or Children's Parliaments models.
Working with our funding partners, Social Change Nest, and fundraisers to deliver small direct grants to community connectors.
Want our help?
If you are a Bristol resident and you are helping your neighbours or making your neighbourhood a better place, we want to help.Please get in touch. We will ask about what you need. Then we will either help you find the professionals who can help, or we will work with you directly.
Holistic
Our world is full of community initiatives, and economic regeneration, and environmental commitments. When these are disconnected they become pointless box-ticking exercises. We need to address the whole person, and the whole community, by running programmes that are connected, from planning-through delivery-through reporting.Learn more about Holistic Community Development here.
Community Led
Countless development initiatives deliver what works for funders, or what works for development professionals, and miss what communities need. In our projects community representatives lead.Learn more about our project design here.
Co-produced
Community members must be involved for any development initiative to succeed. We also need professionals who know how to create positive change and funders who can provide resources, wise counsel, and accountability.By bringing all three groups together in a professionally facilitated series of creative conversations, we enable each group to lead from their areas of expertise, and to be led by the others.The result?Projects based on community needs and inspiration, with the active participation of the benefitting community, informed by the best of what has worked in other places, supported by people who have already done it in those places, and fuelled by funders who have been part of the process from the start.
This page contains images courtesy of: Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University: A new way of viewing the Sustainable Development Goals and how they are all linked to food. The illustration is free to use under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0; Flickr under the Creative Commons License, Bristol, CC BY-ND 2.0 by Andrew Gustar
, Gathering for the Climate March 05, CC BY-SA 2.0 by Sam Saunders
, and Thumb circle, CC BY 2.0, by Jaya Ramchandani
Are you interested?
If you are a Bristol resident and are passionately committed to serving your local geographic community; if you are a professional with past success in bringing your work to a small geographic community; if you are a wealthy individual, or you work for an organisation that wants to invest in Bristol communities in a way that allows EVERYONE to have a voice... or if you want to suggest someone else like that...Please contact us and we will get in touch about this project.We will use your details to keep you informed about our Holistic Community Development work until you ask us not to.
We won't use your details for anything else, unless you specifically ask for us to do so.
This is a project of A Fairer Society.
© AFS Catalyst Ltd. All rights reserved.
Our clients are building a fairer society one community at a time. We help our clients take ownership of the things that matter most to them (housing, food, energy, transport, local business and politics) and run them in a deeply collaborative way. This includes building cohousing communities, launching cooperatives, converting businesses to employee ownership and sociocratic governance, and supporting action networks devoted to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
A Fairer Society is a trading name of AFS Catalyst LTD, a UK-based sociocratic worker cooperative. We are a company limited by shares. Our company registration number is 11900893. Our registered office is 104 Tower Ride Uckfield TN22 1NS.
Organisers, funders, and key allies include:
This project is led by A Fairer Society, a CTRLshift partner, as one of several local CTRLshift projects. This CTRLshift project is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund through the Transition Together project, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. We are grateful to The National Lottery Community Fund and Lottery players for the funding that makes our work possible.
Thank you!
Let's build a better world together, starting with where we live.