Free pop-up contemporary arts & architecture event celebrating creativity, biodiversity & nature. Everyone is invited! 💚🌳🌈
Entry Hill, Bath: Planning for 2026!
https://localgiving.org/fundraising/foi2025-entryhill
Committed to community empowerment, the social economy and democratic participation.
We design and deliver citizens' juries and assemblies and participatory budgeting processes.
Find out more: 🔗 sharedfuturecic.org.uk
Professional Facilitator.
Engagement Lead - Training at Involve.org.uk
Community Insights Lead for Apolitical by day, Civic Punk by night. Passionate about helping make government work better. Obsessed with all things digital/open government and Public Sector Reform. Community Insights Lead for Apolitical
Creating the digital foundations to support everyone's participation in democratic life. We built http://WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk and http://WhereDoIVote.co.uk. 🗳
Lecturer in Management and Organisation at King's Business School | Researching boundaries between states, markets and communities | All views my own
All things democracy, open gov & participation, with a sprinkling of climbing, photography & Ipswich Town.
Democracy & Participation Lead at Open Government Partnership, trustee at MySociety, & former exec director at Involve.
Turning Python and UK elections into Democracy Club, from Stroud
https://democracyclub.org.uk/
We create digital services that break down barriers to democratic participation, equipping people to take action and drive meaningful change. Subscribe to our updates at http://eepurl.com/gOEVFj
Systems Change Sherpa
Helping people understand and access generative AI tools
Creative Industries (again)
Supporting Ukraine defend against the genocidal invasion by our barbaric neighbour
Tango dancing
Sauna enthusiast
Study level flight simulators
People making European democracy work better since 2006.
Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
https://www.cattell.com
I run The Pensions Regulator's Data and Digital Industry Working Group.
Principal Technologist for GDS Local. Part of @LocalGovDigital.
Advocate of technology enabled user centred design.
o7 CMDR
Head of Transformation and Digital @ Somerset Council || FRSA || Family || Cycling || Minecraft
Local government governance person, supporting English councils on stuff relating to decision-making, oversight, transparency, etc. Views my own.
Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, carer, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Unconferences and support for people interested in making the public sector better. https://www.ukgovcamp.com/
Social innovation. Views are personal.
Supporting organisations to build a better future for people, places and the planet.
#Manchester girl on #SocialJustice mission. Head of Policy & Implementation for GMCA & Mayor of GM. 🐝 Public policy, service & participation. System convening, navigation & change. Previously #GMMoving and Public Law Solicitor.
Professor of Public Management and Leadership at University of Birmingham. Researching future public sector workforce, role of elected councillors and leadership of social care.
Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent.
I'll let you know what I'm up to when I figure it out!
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
The UK's public participation charity. We work to create a healthier & more vibrant democracy, with people at the heart of decision making.
Londoner with a passion for public participation and #WiseDemocracy http://andypaice.net http://co-intelligence.institute
Policy & Advocacy Manager @ mySociety
Clumsy, enthusiastic, interested in exciting things like parliament and cryptic crosswords
(she/they)
As leading charity and national centre of expertise, we are committed to empowering organisations with the tools and knowledge to enhance governance and scrutiny.
Ex-Whitehall type still with views on public policy, but now local historian in Cambridge (UK) blogging at https://lostcambridge.com/ - also writing about the future of the city on The Cambridge Town Owl.
Professor of Public Policy and Public Management, Uni of Bham. Interested in social care, the public service workforce and crosswords, https://21stcenturypublicservant.wordpress.com/
Head of Membership @tpasengland /Miners daughter ⚒️/Season ticket @BarnsleyFC 💕/ #Orgreavejustice /#UnitedforGrenfell💚
Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Sign the petition: www.858.org.uk/house-of-citizens-petition
It's been over 858 years since King Henry II introduced juries.
Finish the job: Replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens.
www.858.org.uk
www.sortitionfoundation.org
Assoc Professor in Public Policy @University of Birmingham #participatorydemocracy #participatoryresearch #democraticinnovations #participatoryarts
Green Party Councillor on Kirklees Councillor. 1st elected in 1999. Dad, husband, Yorkshireman. 2024 Green Party Candidate for Huddersfield, now the most marginal Labour/Green Constituency in the UK.
The humans behind Citizen Space and other citizen engagement tools. Let's talk democracy #CivicTech and doughnuts. 🍩
Democratic innovation / collaborative governance / participation / community action. Often in the mountains
📍Edinburgh
🔗 linkedin.com/in/kmcbride1
🧑💻 Involve UK. Freelance Aiteal Co. Prev TPXimpact, FutureGov, Demsoc, UoEdi, UoSussex
PhD candidate making sense of the idea that you should do the best you can. philpeople.org/profiles/mat-basford
Also interested in democratic reform, public engagement, open data, and digital inclusion.
Devolutionary | Agathist | Lab and Co-op | Lvl. 10 Paladin | Speaking to connect, not on behalf of others | Just get the bus, FFS
Advocate for participatory democracy and striving for a more equitable society • Grad @LSEgovernment • Former IFM-SEI SecGen • Proud Geordie • She/her 🌹🌈 •
Another day, another microblog! Mainly worrying about democracy. Work on regenerating local news at @publicinterestnews.org.uk. Also @j0e_m@mastodon.social for when the sky inevitably clouds over.
Cornish, currently living in Cheshire.
Environment, data, tech, policy and community.
Reads a lot, loves silly adventures.
Parliaments and Public Engagement, with an obsession for petitions. Professor of Politics @ POLISatLeeds and Chair of IPEN, the International Parliament Engagement Network: https://ipen-network.org/ .
CEO Involve. Working to build a stronger democracy that works for everyone, by using the supertools of participatory and deliberative democracy. Also like improv & jumping in cold water.
Network Development Lead @ Involve / Democracy Network
Fellow, Faculty @ Newspeak House
running niche RPGs, painting little plastic men, singing, recovering boater (he/him)
Philosopher and social activist with interest in self-directed support, basic income, neighbourhood democracy, neighbourhood care and anything else that helps create a world where everyone matters (and chippy Northerner). https://citizen-network.org
Trustee at Indigo Trust, CarnegieUK. Formerly Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
Participation, especially in health. Co-founder & Director @NewCitProj. Award-winning contact lens safety campaigner.
Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Singer songwriter | original acoustic tracks | americana | folk rock | country | #music | #mentalhealth | #Huddersfield | website👇 www.thedeadpoetmusic.com
Social media strategies for change-makers, charities and non-fiction authors 💪Co-Steward @ Citizen Collective
The Community Councillor Collective is a network of councillors committed to putting citizens at the heart of local decision-making and building the power of their communities.
www.thecommunitycouncillorcollective.co.uk
Practitioner policy wonk | Founder www.questionfactory.co.uk | Trustee @mysociety | Ex- Demos, LGA, Stockport Council, GMCA, Govt of Jersey, LCRCA
I animate communities & support professionals/orgs working in citizen space. Books include: The Connected Community, and Rekindlling Democracy. More here: https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/
Growing food & community, doing local democracy & digital, building cathedrals & connections. Work: democracy & citizen engagement. Writer, artist, activist, unapologetic idealistic. I am still #Notwestminster
Empowering people to take their own steps to Change the World. We deliver interactive workshops in schools & with community groups on recycling, Fairtrade & the environment.
fairandfunky.com
Chair/NED/Adviser #localgov, "digital", governance, strategy, democracy, data, operational research. Militant optimism. Slightly retired so also: travel, theatre, WRU :-( , F1, politics-watcher, Wingnut and CFA superfan. Harpenden. #dysgwyr
Humble functionary
#localgov 🏛️
#localdemocracy 🗳️
#dcfc 🐏
Scrutiny geek. Local government fan. Freelance public servant. Occasional academic. 🕺💃
Trust is our greatest currency.
Peace, love, truth, music
I am #Notwestminster
Up The Blades
official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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