Organisations you should know: Community Cooperative

Community Cooperative: trying to make local decisions accessible to everyone

Activists, community organisers, educators, artists and walkers all of whom live, work and had friends and family in Torbay were united in their response to the council’s plans to develop and privatise Babbacombe Downs – out of that struggle the Community Cooperative grew.

Community Cooperative’s ideas are broader than an individual incident.

They say: “We want to make local politics such as decisions about who gets to control public space, community resources and assets available and accessible to everyone.

“Despite all of the current rhetoric about “local democracy”, local politics remains for many an extremely complex, if not impenetrable process.”

To help with breaking down the barriers, Community Cooperative has a manifesto of 10 points:

1. Community Control of public space and resources
2. Slow community polices
3. A conflicted public
4. Horizontal not vertical relations
5. Cultural provision – Torbay as a creative community
6. Public space as site of social experimentation
7. Community organising structures
8. Real communities, not real estate
9. An alternative future
10. Torbay as a town of conscious, motivated producers

Check out where they are coming from, and see if you can add to their campaign in Torbay, or the ethos of their campaign else where

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