Building a vehicle for working-class people to make decisions that affect their communities.
Author: Blackbird
Blackbird Community Project is a Northampton community-building initiative that hosts a free kitchen 2 Sundays each month, prints a newsletter with items from local people, and sets up Learning Circles on survival skills and how to make change.
‘Community Food Sovereignty’ Learning Circle write-up
“There is a gap between small Market Gardens and massive monocultural farms. We need in betweens.“ 3:30pm, Saturday 10th February 2024Blackcurrent Centre, 24 St Michael’s Avenue, NN1 4JQ Key terms: Rachel is a veg grower in North Oxfordshire at a North Aston Organics, a 12-acre organic farm. In 2020, many people reacted badly to the…
Blackbird Learning Circle: PROGRESS REPORT [1]
BLC progress report [1] early August 2023 The Learning Circle held its first meeting on Saturday the 29th of July 2023 in Abington, Northampton, England. The full notes from the session will be uploaded to www.blackcurrent.uk seperately. Time Bank People identify their skills or offers which are entered onto a database. Skills/offers are shared with…
Blackbird Learning Circle
Blackbird Learning Circle – a base for community action We are forming a learning circle to create a basis for action groups. These could include: The learning circle is part of the Blackbird Community Project, here in Northampton, the overall aim of which is to build a proactive and non-hierarchical community. The project already includes…
How to organise a free foodshare
WHAT IS A FOODSHARE? A Foodshare is an event or organisation where food is shared for free. Foodshares are necessary in today’s society because the system we live under does not guarantee basic wellbeing for everyone, so we must support one other. Food can be sourced in various ways: INTRO This how-to is based on…