Summer 2026 #54

Unlocking Social Clubs for Community Organising Nick Pearce

How National Lottery Solidarity Fund £2.75 million is supporting Stir to Action to usher in a new era of social clubs

Nite School, Metro’s Sports & Social Club, and the New Social Life of Stretford Callum Parton & Grace Crabtree

How a partnership between a historic social club and a DIY cultural collective demonstrates a model for community-led collaboration and a participatory night-time economy

How Do I Join? The power of member-owned spaces Jonny Gordon-Farleigh and Olivia Gable

How social clubs act as sites of everyday connection, cultivate a sense of collective ownership and responsibility, and support civic participation

Profiles: Clacton Railway Social Club and Sheerness East Working Men’s Club 

Radical Space: Building the House of the People Interview with Margaret Kohn

How our shared social infrastructure has shaped transformative politics and popular power


Bar strikes, Unite, and the night-time economy Q&A with Nick Troy  

We discuss the state of the hospitality sector, the power of worker ownership, and the role of the labour movement in rebuilding our social and cultural spaces


Place, Power and Retrofit
Talisa Denny

How we can move away from extractive global supply chains and towards a new politics of energy, rooted in co-operation, reciprocity, and interdependence

Right of Reply: Pride in Work? Confronting the root cause of economic decline — James Wright (Co-ops UK), James de le Vingne (Employee Ownership Association), John Atherton (workers.coop) & Bonnie Chiu (TSI Consulting)

Responses to a proposal to create a 'Pride in Work' programme alongside 'Pride in Place', supporting community regeneration by democratising local business

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