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Published: 2026-04-23 11:11:08
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We’re a nation of neighbourhoods – and if we change our neighbourhoods, we can change the nation. But what would a neighbourhood fit for the future we face look like?
In the next episode of our podcast SCREW THIS, LET’S TRY SOMETHING ELSE, Maryam Pasha and I take you on a journey to Birmingham to meet Imandeep Kaur & the CIVIC SQUARE team, and hear about the incredible work they’re doing ot create a neighbourhood resilient to what’s coming – including their 3 degree neighbourhood plan.
We also hear from brilliant economist Kate Raworth on how the approach CIVIC SQUARE are taking could work for neighbourhoods everywhere. We explore how a new economic reality, in which resources are managed with care, and finance flows back into our communities – not out of them – would result.
This episode tells the story of their decade plus journey from exploring what the community need, to building a successful hub, only to have it priced out of existence by extractive landlords, right up to the step change brought by their recently aquired land, owned in perpetuity by the community, to build their new neighbourhood public square.
Podcast trailer here:
“The neighborhood… however, we define it all through British history, that’s the scale at which when you build the skills, the confidence, the belonging, we’ve tackled huge challenges” Immy Kaur
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And when you’re done, use our postcode search tool to find 5 examples of systemically change making collective action within 5 miles of your front door here:
https://www.antidotelive.studio/near-you
…and check out other folks talking about how collective action can lead to real change, including Jessica Friday and Michael Mezz.
Next week: Episode 5…
…in which we’ll visit both Grimsby and Hull, to discover part of the growing movement to build real democracy on the ground, by taking decision making into local hands – as we visit East Marsh United, and Co-operation Hull, and speak to Oli Whittington from Our House about the growing charter movement to reboot how politics works from the ground up.
