https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/ Organising for a fairer UK, together. en Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:51:40 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/the-two-bus-problem-auditing-travel-before-you-book-the-room/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/the-two-bus-problem-auditing-travel-before-you-book-the-room/ Every campaign has a membership that exists on paper and a membership that can physically get through the door. The gap between the two is usually a bus timetable. Here's how to audit travel, budget for it properly, and stop letting fares decide who gets a say. United Communities Community Organising Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:21:47 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/new-colour-same-asks-holding-a-coalition-together-when-the-council-flips/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/new-colour-same-asks-holding-a-coalition-together-when-the-council-flips/ Every few years the council chamber changes hands, and every few years community groups get quietly sorted into friends and enemies by people who've never read their asks. Here's an opinionated survival guide to surviving a change of political control without losing your residents. United Communities Opinion & Strategy Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:21:47 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/beyond-chair-and-treasurer-five-quiet-roles/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/beyond-chair-and-treasurer-five-quiet-roles/ Every campaign recruits the same handful of jobs and then wonders why it stalls six months in. Here are the five roles that actually decide whether a local coalition lasts — and how to spot the people already doing them unpaid. United Communities Opinion & Strategy Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:21:40 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/where-the-real-meeting-happens-everyday-places/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/where-the-real-meeting-happens-everyday-places/ The pub, the laundrette, the library counter — none of them appear in a campaign plan, and all of them carry the relationships that make one possible. A look at how UK organisers work with the spaces they don't own, and how to do it without wearing out the welcome. United Communities Community Organising Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:21:40 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/seven-questions-test-community-led-campaign/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/seven-questions-test-community-led-campaign/ Plenty of campaigns call themselves community-led; far fewer could survive a straightforward morning at a bus stop. This is a practical audit for organisers who want to move past consultation theatre and find out who their campaign is genuinely built for — and who it quietly locks out. United Communities Community Organising Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:25:30 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/online-momentum-to-standing-local-power/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/online-momentum-to-standing-local-power/ A WhatsApp group with 400 members and nobody chairing it. A petition with thousands of signatures and no one to hand it to. Every few months a UK neighbourhood generates enormous online energy and then loses it — here's how groups are converting that spark into something that lasts. United Communities Opinion & Strategy Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:25:30 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/unseen-shift-campaign-admin-burnout-rota/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/unseen-shift-campaign-admin-burnout-rota/ Most coalitions don't collapse because the opposition wins. They collapse because the person who booked the room, took the minutes and chased the follow-up calls quietly ran out of steam. It's time to treat the boring tasks as the radical ones. United Communities Opinion & Strategy Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:24:31 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/resident-led-budgets-participatory-budgeting-uk/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/resident-led-budgets-participatory-budgeting-uk/ A million pounds sounds abstract until it's sitting in a church hall on a Tuesday night and the people deciding what happens to it live three streets away. Participatory budgeting is spreading across the UK—and it's less about spreadsheets than about who gets to hold the pen. United Communities Community Organising Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:24:31 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/second-win-strategy-uk-campaigns-2026/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/second-win-strategy-uk-campaigns-2026/ A council vote, a funding promise or a planning concession is not the end of a campaign — it is the moment when power either gets built or gets lost. Here is the case for a 'second win' strategy, and a simple framework for planning it. United Communities Opinion & Strategy Sat, 07 Nov 2026 21:28:29 GMT https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/warm-hubs-real-power-winter-coalitions-2026/ https://unitedcommunities.org.uk/warm-hubs-real-power-winter-coalitions-2026/ Warm hubs are a start, not a solution. As winter pressures bite in late 2026, the neighbourhoods doing this well are building coalitions that link food clubs, tenant networks, energy advice and council support — without handing over control. United Communities Community Organising Sat, 07 Nov 2026 21:28:29 GMT