If you’d like to help shape what happens in your community and have your say about the work Super Slow Way plans as well as getting actively involved why not join one of our Community Assemblies? All our activity along the Linear Park stretch is shaped by steering groups of local residents (in Blackburn, Hyndburn, Burnley and Pendle) supported by The Super Slow Way and local partners.
In Pendle we work as part of This is Nelson a three way partnership between In-Situ, Building Bridges and Super Slow Way, supporting the collective reimagining of Nelson from the ground up. This partnership has grown out of the Nelson town deal through engagement and collaboration with a wide range of local people across Nelson.
We will be exploring the growing community ownership movement, where communities come together to take ownership of land, buildings and heritage assets that are important to them in their neighbourhoods. This often results in better use of land and buildings for the benefit of local people. We will discuss exemplary projects nationally and explore how this might be possible within Lancashire communities.
A communal meal will be shared at 6pm followed by a film screening of Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square is a documentary chronicling a 50-year grassroots campaign to save NYC’s Cooper Square from urban renewal. Led by activist Frances Goldin, residents fought gentrification to establish a community land trust and keep the neighborhood permanently affordable.
If you’d like to find out more about assemblies in Pendle contact ben@superslowway.org.uk
Agenda
5.00-5.10 Introduction to Peoples Assemblies & it’s vision
5.10-6.00pm Community Ownership Details to follow
6.00 Communal Meal prepared by Mums to Mums & Youth Works in the Kitchen as part of our Taste of Transformation Programme
6.00-7.30pm Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square Film Screening
7.30-8.00pm Talkaoke
