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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
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AUTUMN 2024 What’s Happening at Democratic Business Summit This year ’s Democratic Business Summit – a one-day event to advance democracy across the UK business economy – is coming to Cardiff ’s Principality Stadium on 3rd December 2024. Building on the success of last year ’s event, we’re bringing together policy makers, businesses, federations, academics, and funders to continue to develop and promote more awareness of how democratic business can transform our broken economy. With a new government – and manifesto pledges to support the sector ’s growth – it presents an opportunity to make sure our business movement is working together to influence how public money and incentives benefit this part of the business economy in the UK over the next few years. To find out more, and to buy your ticket, visit democraticbusiness.org/events/summit or contact jonny@democraticbusiness.org Pathways to Land Pathways to Land, a new project by Stir to Action, courtesy of a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Emerging Futures programme, explores financial pathways to securing land appropriate to the needs of BPOC producers (Black and People of Colour), who often face additional barriers to accessing finance based on their identity. A groundbreaking new report, Pathways to Land for BPOC, has just been published, culminating the first stage of the project. You can read more about it in this issue, and read the full report at stir toaction.com/pathwaysreport. Join an autumn forum Forums on 26th September and 7th October (in-person and online respectively) will focus on one or more of the following: • identifying support for initially searching for suitable land/finance • explore how charitable foundations and funders can make social lending better meet BPOC producers’ needs • identify financial instruments appropriate to various BPOC needs including those which account for culturally-informed land use preferences • identify financial ownership models for BPOC farms To get involved or for more details, contact nicola.scott@stir toaction.com. Barefoot We’re planning to relaunch Barefoot in spring 2025, so if you’re interested in joining the course, keep an eye out for updates on our website or contact barefoot@stirtoaction.com Revitalising the future of the UK’s Social Clubs Over the last year and a half, we’ve been researching the current state of the UK’s at-risk working men’s and social clubs, and building relationships with local clubs, development bodies, and the union. Within the last month we’ve also hosted an online roundtable and are now facilitating a working group to fundraise for a national support programme. For more information, see our editor ’s article on ‘More than a century of community wealth – the history & future of the UK’s social clubs’, which provides a political history of these clubs, and explores the opportunity to revitalise them for a new generation. If you would like to collaborate, partner, or get involved in any of our projects, you can contact us via hello@stirtoaction.com

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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

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