ISSUE 47
In this issue
4 Save Birmingham: The campaign to protect community places
Kathy Hopkin
8 Project Spotlight From Fairways to Fair Use: How golf courses can be repurposed to meet the needs of people and planet Grace Crabtree & Dan Woolley
10 Pathways to Land
Grace Crabtree
14
Scaling up democratic ownership: Adapting the employee ownership model to build truly democratic businesses Kosta Juri & Tej Gonza
18 Doubling the Size of the Co-op Economy Jonny Gordon-Farleigh, John Atherton,
Jonathan Nunn, Daniel Monaghan,
James Wright
24 Interview Dylan Riley on the Civic Foundations of Fascism
30 Review Making the Shocks Count
Fred Warren
32 Transforming City Economies Jonny Gordon-Farleigh, Hani Salih,
Rachel Laurence, Danny Balla,
Ben Beach
38 Kin: Financial mutual aid between co-ops
Rob Callender
42 Roost: Towards one million co-op homes
Andrew Bailie
46 Protecting more than a Century of Community Wealth:
The history & promise of the UK’s social clubs Jonny Gordon-Farleigh with Oliver Holtaway
Featured Illustrators
All artwork in this issue is thanks to the efforts of an outstanding group of illustrators contributing their time and talents to support the work of STIR.
Blane Asrat is a designer and illustrator based in San Francisco. She uses experimental scenes, portraits, and layouts, to explore the stories behind our emotional and cognitive experiences. art blane.work Carl Godfrey is an illustrator and designer based in Bristol. When he’s not collaging he runs @signsofthetimes art, a satirical look at the news. ig @carl.godfrey carl godfrey.com
Guillermo Ortego is a Spanish illustrator and designer based in London. He’s been inking comic books and illustrating for newspapers, books and magazines for over a decade. He’s recently joined Stir to Action as its first in-house illustrator. willortego.com Hanna Norberg-Williams is an awardwinning illustrator, animator and designer creating distinctive, bold textural work that often subverts the everyday with the surreal and absurd. hannanorbergwilliams. myportfolio.com ig @hanorbb Lou Kiss is an illustrator and designer. Her work incorporates conceptual, often witty ideas with a clean, minimalistic composition. She enjoys working on topics such as mental health, women’s rights, and opinion pieces. loukissdraws.com
Rowena Sheehan is a freelance illustrator-animator based in Bournemouth. Using her distinctive style, she specialises in projects driving positive change in the world. When she’s not drawing, Rowena is usually off climbing mountains or swimming in the sea. rowenasheehan.com Vico Santos is an illustrator based in São Paulo, Brazil. Drawing inspiration from nature, when he’s not illustrating, he can be found watching the clouds and tending to his bees. vicosantos.com ig @thevicosantos
