In 2024 the Grassroots Project working groups codesigned an ongoing and sustainable system of support for grassroots groups in Southwark.
See the first meeting minutes from 14th November 2024 HERE
To become a member of the Grassroots Project your goup or organisation will:
- be small and of social benefit, responding to local needs
- be incorporated or unincorporated
- have an annul turnover of less than £25,000
- not necessarily have a formal constitution
- have no or few paid staff and operate largely through volunteering, or by giving time for free ‘exercising self- agency’. *
- come together for action locally, or as an activist movement, and have minimal or no management hierarchy.
- funding, if any, is usually from donations and ad hoc grants, and not from regular recurring income.
* exercising self-agency, rather than a contractual relationship or formal volunteering in organisations.
Join HERE
Why we need the Grassroots Project.
The work grassroots groups do is often either not recognised or unappreciated, partly due to the way they are set up and function.
Grassroots groups have different operating and management processes, that are sometimes unconventional, which is reflected in a focus on spending limited resources on delivery of services to benefit their communities, rather than cumbersome administration.
Read the project development report HERE.
To find out more email us at: stas@communitysouthwark.org