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The campaign for community power. Driving forward landmark legislation that will give everyone the right to shape the place they live. https://www.right-here.org/

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Today we travelled to Plymouth to visit Nudge Community Builders & plan for an exciting new phase of our campaign. Hannah from @nudgecommunity.bsky.social took us to Union Street, where local people are slowly and determinedly bringing derelict buildings back to life - and into community ownership.

Hannah in front of Nudge's first space.Hannah explaining how Nudge rents out their spaces to local groups.A room in the Millennium Building with construction materialsIn the courtyard of one of Nudge's spaces.
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We’ve never felt so inspired at a bus stop. 🚏 At the Community Power Rally, brilliant speakers addressed a crowd of Labour Party Conference attendees and community groups from our double-decker bus. Each speaker made the case for how deeper community power could turn our country around. 🧵1/2

Caitlin Prowle, Co-operative Party Annoushka Deighton, We're Right Here, holds up a "Community Power Now" signJessie Joe Jacobs, Labour for CommunityKirsty McNeill MP
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Once a year, politicians leave Westminster for party conference. Power gets on the train to Liverpool but never leaves the conference centre. Communities need power in their hands all year round. Don't take your foot off the gas, Andy. The next stop for devolution: community power. 🧵1/2

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As politicians chat in the Labour Party Conference rooms far from the communities they serve, we brought the two worlds closer together through the Community Power Bus. 🚌 Community spaces are essential infrastructure, not optional extras. The next stop for devolution has got to be community power.

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Come aboard the Community Power Bus, parked outside the Labour Party Conference. A space to explore how to put real power into communities' hands. 📍 Salthouse Gates Lay-by, Salthouse Quay, Albert Dock, Liverpool 🗓️ 28–29 Sept, 10:30am-4pm Let’s make community power the next stop for devolution.

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With Labour conference around the corner, it’s encouraging to see the Prime Minister’s commitment to unlocking community power beginning to be put into action. We’ve been cooking up a plan for Conference to push the government to further and faster on devolution - we'll be sharing more next week!

Community Power on the destination sign of a Double Decker bus