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First session was from the Stroud Commons group talking about the housing commons they're setting up

https://stroudcommons.org/

I missed details of the energy commons in the last session

Now it's Stroud Earth Community http://www.earthcommunitytrust.org/ who run (and are crowd funding to buy) Trinity Rooms where the festival is being held #FoC24

The story of Stroud Climbing Commons reminds me lots of the challenges we faced with setting up @DoESLiverpool - finding enough people to fund it, persuading insurers to handle risks without needing staff to supervise...

https://climbingcommons.org/

Now hearing from the Bristol Commons. Lots of echoes with the challenges for space and the losses of spaces within Liverpool.

https://coexistuk.org/

"How do we spread to the 'non-woke' mainstream?"

The million dollar question, from Diana Finch; talking about the struggles of scaling the Bristol Pound

First session post-lunch sees Immy Kaur telling the story of Impact Hub Birmingham and its metamorphosis into Civic Square https://civicsquare.cc/

"political organising is boring and that's why we let bastards do it" Lots of interesting thoughts from Clare Farrel of #XR and https://humanityproject.uk/

@urlyman @dilgreen AIUI there's a hope for it to become annual, so you'll have to get along next year!

@amcewen oh cool! Yes!

(I think @dilgreen may have been a mutual of mine on Twitter but he doesn’t seems active here now so not sure)

@urlyman @dilgreen yeah, he does seem fairly quiet over here; I'm hoping my tagging him will help encourage him

@amcewen @dilgreen