Hope Is Something We Build Together

This spring we gathered at beautiful Braziers Park for Grabbing Hope – a two-day immersion into “Assembly Culture”.

This is a new form of local democracy, a movement that makes life better where we live, driving change from the ground up.

30 organisers joined us from across the UK and beyond. People working on food, climate, housing, local democracy and community life, all coming together to deepen their skills in listening, facilitation and assembly organising.

This short film features reflections from Humanity Project co-convener, Clare Farrell, and our friend Ruby Bukhari (First independent candidate for Brixton Acre lane) on the possibilities of assemblies, and why this work matters so much right now.

This is what Assembly Culture looks like.

And it’s definitely not politics as usual 🙂

Big thanks and love to everyone who joined us over the weekend, and to all those working so hard in their communities to bring about change. And to Zoe Broughton for the film.

We hope this inspires more people to gather, listen and organise together. Because a different kind of future starts locally, with us.

If you’d like to know more, please get in touch.