Stories of Community
CIVIC SQUARE’s historic land purchase for the community
“One of the biggest challenges was that philanthropy is not very ambitious in the UK. Funding is not very ambitious,” says Imandeep Kaur, co-founder and director of CIVIC SQUARE. She continues: “Wealth holders and funders take these incredibly large pots of money and put them into small, little programmes to keep people on these treadmills.…
Read MoreWeathering the storm with People Dem Collective
“In that moment, there was this silent pact, almost an unspoken agreement: What were we going to do next? What was going to be the legacy of this? We realised that our town, along with its allies, had an appetite for meaningful action,” recalls the co-founder of the People Dem Collective – Victoria Barrow Williams. …
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