What’s it all about?

Neighbourhood Creative Agents is a collaboration between Make/Shift and Platform Thirty1. Inspired by our shared commitment to put communities — their strengths, ideas, energy, ambitions and stories — at the heart of making positive change where they live.

I believe there is endless possibility, playfulness and power to be garnered where we live when an authentic and creative community first approach is facilitated.

Together we can explore, endure, and spark a magic on our own terms with and for the wider community to become much greater than the sum of our parts. We can uncover and celebrate what matters, be brave, to bathe in the uncharted together and develop our practice to make meaningful projects in new ways that are co-designed and are owned and delivered with our neighbours on our own doorsteps"

Jodie Cresswell-Waring
Facilitator, Programme Manager & Director, Platform Thirty1

Neighbourhood Creative Agents is part of our action research approach. Testing ways of shifting more power, resources and ownership towards communities and deepening our understanding of how to create space for people to activate their creative potential and realise their own ability to make change. As opposed to the traditional ‘top down’ approach. You can read more about co-creation The Journey To Co-Creation and working on your doorstep What it means to work on your doorstep in our recent blogs.

As one of six Neighbourhood Creative Agents you’ll work together to discover, connect, nourish and let loose creativity, stories and possibilities where you live. Developing your skills as a facilitator and enabler and testing new ways of working which shift more power and resources to communities to make decisions, take action and make change together in the places they call home.

Neighbourhood Creative Agents will have access to:

  • £975 fee to take part in the peer learning adventure
  • £4000 budget to make something happen where they live

We are particularly keen to hear from people who live in villages, and neighbourhoods outside of Amber Valley’s four main market towns (Ripley, Alfreton, Heanor and Belper). We will be looking for a good spread across the group, covering different places and communities.

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