We want to hear from you!

Five years ago, we launched We’re Right Here to make the case that people should have the power to shape their places. Since then, the conversation on community power has evolved. More organisations are championing it. Policymakers are listening and, at times, speaking our language.

This Spring, the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill will pass into law. It’ll include hard-won policies such as the Community Right to Buy, enabling people to take ownership of the places they love. None of this progress would have been possible without the supporters, partners and community leaders who’ve powered this movement from day one.

But despite this progress, communities still face an uphill battle to do their important work: forging connections between neighbours, tackling ill health and loneliness, planning affordable housing, boosting local economies. The solutions that places up and down our country are crying out for.

The groundwork is in place. A meaningful redistribution of power – one that gives everyone a stake in making their place better – is closer than it has been for a generation. We’re entering a new chapter of our campaign and we want to shape it with you.

What should our campaign prioritise? Where can we have the greatest impact? Take our survey by 17th April and help shape the future of community power.

The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.

How we’ll use your data

This survey will directly shape the future of We’re Right Here. The insights you share will be reviewed by our small team and used to shape the campaign’s priorities going forward. We’ll also use the data from this survey to demonstrate how important policy change is to those calling for community power.

We ask for some personal information in this survey so we can reach out to you to keep you informed about how the campaign is developing. This is completely optional! And we will only use it to update you on the campaign.

Section 1: About you

Are you responding to this survey on behalf of:

You have chosen "Other" please specify

Where is your organisation based?

Section 3: Policy focus (continued)

What are the most significant barriers to building community power in and for your community?

Please indicate how important each barrier below is by rating it (scale from 1 - insignificant to 5 - very significant)

Decisions around infrastructure investment are made without community input

Decisions about skills and enterprise development are made without community input

Decisions around investment in community health and wellbeing are made without community input

Local planning decisions are made without community input

There is a lack of funding for community organisations to take on local land and assets

There is a lack of funding for community organisations to develop and deliver services

There is a lack of funding for community organisations to organise local people to shape local decision-making, spaces and services

Community organisations lack the skills, expertise or staff capacity to engage effectively with opportunities to build community power

Communities are not involved in the commissioning of local services

Local services are delivered by organisations based too far from the local community

There is a lack of spaces for communities to come together in

Local authorities are not open to collaborating with the community

The community is divided

The community is not interested in exercising power

The community does not trust the council and/or other public service providers

If you’d like to explain your response above, or identify other barriers to building community power in and for your community beyond those listed above, please do so here.

Do you feel that there is a need for a campaign focused on securing national policy change to unlock community power?

If you’d like to explain your response above, please do so here.

If you have any other feedback about the campaign, in terms of what you would like to see us do more of, less of, or differently, please share it here

Section 4: Next steps

As we progress the development of We’re Right Here’s policy demands we will host an online consultation workshop to understand what community leaders want to see from the campaign. Would you be interested in joining us?

Yes

Do you consent to us adding your email to our mailing list and including you in future correspondence about We’re Right Here?

Yes

Organisation name

Please enter the full legal name of your organisation without any punctuation or acronyms.

First Name

Last Name

Position

Email

Phone

Mobile

Thank you for your time, please press submit.