The North West London Social Action Hub
The NWL Social Action Hub is a partnership between Our Yard & the Stonegrove Community Trust. Our mission is to build and support a resilient and sustainable community of active people in and around North West London. One that can work collectively to take action around common concerns, and can overcome social injustice. A community that listens, reaches out, connects, and motivates people to build their collective power.
We are using the principles and practice of Community Organising and Community Hosting and offering high quality certified training, coaching, and support.
What will I learn?
Community organisers reach out and listen to people, then connect and motivate them to build their collective power. In this course, you will start to explore how people come together so that they can understand and take action on their concerns to build community and overcome social injustice.
You will learn about:
What community organising is
The importance of listening to build relationships and explore issues
Power in communities and why it matters
What motivates people to act
How to take your next steps in community organising
Like all of our training, it is both active and thought-provoking. It is designed so that everybody can take part and share their ideas and experiences. Many different people have taken part in the Introduction to Community Organising course, from members of the community, people who work in community organisations as well as individuals from local government and statutory services.
We run a two part course. Introduction to Community Organsing and a follow-up session Listening in Community Organising. It is essential to attend the Introduction session before the Listening.
“Following the training I joined the SCT team as a Community Connector, so have been able to make great use of the tools and awareness I gathered at the training event. The listening tools that I’ve used for my community listening events have been paramount and also helped with my role as a Befriender and now supervisor to Volunteer Befrienders during this pandemic. I have no doubt that the training completed will help in my future endeavours in Community Organising and Listening and I look forward to future training events to build on the initial pilot training to further develop my skills and confidence in this arena..” — Beaj, Community Organising Certificate holder