共存

枢纽 英格兰和威尔士

小组人数：

30

去年的积极参与者：

500

开始分组：

2008

有偿角色？

没有

法律结构：

其他

Charitable Community Benefit Society

你们的小组有多活跃？

非常活跃

现场项目：

• 社区成长
• 其他食品项目
• 自然
• 社区中心或活动
• 节日、集市或活动
• 艺术/创造力
• 社区远景规划/想象力工作
• 建立当地网络
• 地方经济或新经济项目
• 福祉或内心过渡
• 社会正义/公正过渡活动
• 青年或教育项目
• 共享、修复或再利用
• 能源
• 运输

Coexist – a Bristol-based social enterprise renowned for growing creative community spaces, pioneering new economy projects and fostering community-led resurgence.

In 2008, Coexist founded Hamilton House  in Stokes Croft, Bristol – as a pilot ‘Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Community’. Through careful co-production and collaboration it became one of the UK’s largest and most successful community-cultural hubs, which it managed for ten years before the organisation’s much publicised eviction, along with over 500 artists, social enterprises and charities, in December 2018.

Drawing upon its experience and learnings, Coexist is now building a movement to support communities and community hubs across Bristol.  Many vital spaces and places – as well as organisations and services – are under threat.  We believe that this network of people, infrastructure, knowledge and expertise is essential for individuals and communities to thrive.  These resources need to be championed, nurtured and protected if we are to be successful in transitioning to a more sustainable future.

As part of this work, Coexist has launched The Bristol Commons – a movement for sustainable community prosperity.  It’s current aims are to:

Share resources and nurture a culture of collaboration, not competition – a network of reciprocity based on commoning;

Bring vital infrastructure into community ownership to build community wealth and enhance community health – to Rebuild the Commons!

Generate a surplus to reinvest in vital projects that support marginalised groups and fund an equity-based sustainable restoration programme;

Collectively persuade and steer the council and national government for increased community power – including the right to buy community assets;

Create systemic change so that developers and private landlords are no longer the key beneficiaries in our cities by facilitating communities to protect and nurture our shared assets to maximise public benefit.

This work is embedded within the Transition Movement, as commoning and recommoning is a restorative process that values our whole Earth and all its shared abundance, biodiversity and resources as sacred and vital.  We use commoning as a practice to move from an industrial growth society towards an ecologically just and restorative society.