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A large group of around 50 diverse people stand below a rainbow-coloured roof and a giant yellow smiley face flag in a Coventry city centre shopping precinct. Megaphones and banners can be also be seen.

2 June 2025

Join us as Senior Community Organiser growing Connecting for Good into a strategic collective for change

An illustration by artist and community organiser Melissa Smith shows all different kinds of people across the top holding aloft placards and megaphones against a sunrise with the words 'systemic change' in orange and brown. Below, "the collective power of a thriving ecosystem united across Coventry" is depicted as interlocking pentagons of a bee hive. Pentagons include purpose, connected, inclusive and self organised.

15 April 2025

New staff blog: Community organising to nurture an ecosystem in Coventry

A group gathers inside the library for a publicity photo holding various sensory items available to loan and smiling for the camera.

5 March 2025

Alex brings personal experience to turn idea for sensory library into a reality

A section of flipchart paper covered in brightly coloured writing with ideas on the aims of the Need The Loo campaign in Coventry. Taken at a Collaboration Station monthly ideas night.

19 November 2024

Coventry’s Need The Loo campaign calls for change on World Toilet Day

A blog cover shows a photo of a collection of people's concerns about air quality in their neighbourhood displayed on a wall.

9 October 2024

New Connecting for Good report reveals impact and learning from shifting power to communities

1 October 2024

Organising Change blog series: The power of facilitative leadership

A man wearing a green parker coat with his whole face covered by a giant nose mask, spreads his arms wide as crowds behind him look on and smile.

24 September 2024

Organising Change blog series: The glitter and the glue

A colourful handmade placard on cardboard reading 'Power to the People' is held high in front of some trees and a grey sky.

17 September 2024

Organising Change blog series: How we organise change in this place at this time

An illustration of four people - a baby, child, woman and person with a walking aid - beneath the question, need the loo? in bold black text.

2 May 2024

Taking the P! Community campaign wants better public toilet provision in Coventry

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