Past Events

As part of our Action on Poverty and Hardship Degree, Staffordshire University are working in partnership with Rethinking Poverty to run a series of Meet the Author webinars connected to our Anti-Poverty Conference on 20th June on campus. The first event welcomes Stewart Lansley, author of ‘The Richer; The Poorer; How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor.’ Described as a ‘remarkably informed and readable history with a powerful message’ by Jacob S.Hacker at Yale University the book details…

Join Co-operatives UK for this event on Wednesday 27 April from 3.30pm-4.30pm. Co-op Connections are networking events that enable co-ops to connect, learn and discuss topical themes. < About the event This event will start with a short talk from a Co-operatives UK member, showcasing a problem that they have experienced and how they overcame it. This will allow everyone in attendance to learn from another organisation's practical experience, and generate some great ideas to take back to your co-op. Format This…

Free Join us for a day of learning and practical action to celebrate women of the Garden City movement Following the 2020 TCPA project ‘The Forgotten Pioneers: Celebrating the Women of the Garden City Movement’, the TCPA is keen to continue its work highlighting and celebrating the forgotten voices of the Garden City movement and promoting diversity in the movement today. One of the challenges to promoting diversity in the movement is the under-representation online of women in the built environment in mainstream…

About the event Join us for the Worker Co-op Weekend 2022 - set to be the largest and most important event in the worker co-op movement for the last 20 years! Led by the Worker Co-op Council, we will be setting out a proposal for the future direction of our movement and we want your helping shaping it. Of course the event will also bring people together to connect, learn, share experiences and to have a lot of fun. Designed…

Are you looking for a different way to do business? Workers’ co-operatives are a great way of doing that – they are businesses run democratically by the workers to provide themselves with meaningful employment and to provide a service to the community, rather than creating profit for a boss or unconnected shareholders. This workshop will inspire you to work co-operatively, to take control over your work life and change our society for the better, here and now. ‍ Get a…

The New Statesman’s annual Regional Development Conference is a day of fascinating insights and discussions centred around the most pressing questions for the future of the levelling up strategy and local growth. Join us on Thursday 12th May 2022 in Birmingham (Hilton Birmingham Metropole, B40 1PP), home of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to hear insights from leaders in policymaking and industry on what’s next for regional development. With the establishment of the new Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the levelling…

Join Compass on Thursday 12th May as we examine the interface between the personal and the political. To create the good society, we need to be the good society. As we stand on the precipice of emerging from the Covid, climate and ‘mental health’ crises changed, three stories are presented to us: the story of business as usual, the story of the great unravelling and the story of the great turning. Each of these is as much an inner story as an outer one,…

Over the last 10 years a steadily growing number of places have found new ways to make the community level of local government function better. There is vast potential for parish and town councils to create new forms of relationship and practice with the people they purport to represent. The course will look at how we got to where we are; share practical steps as we could do better; and both encourage and support participants to see how they can…