Final few days to get your discount to the biggest community sector event of the year 🎉 #Locality26 Convention is coming to #Leicester! Expect: • Inspiring stories • Practical tools & resources • New connections 📅 1–2 December 2026 Tickets: https://locality.org.uk/events/locality-convention

Seeing hope for communities in an Andy Burnham government: as the former Mayor moves into Number 10, we consider how his previous community power credentials could translate into national policy. 📰 Read more: https://locality.org.uk/news/hope-for-communities-in-andy-burnham-government

Community ownership is proven to drive local renewal. But while political support is growing, investment still falls far short of demand. New research from @locality.org.uk @powertochange.org.uk sets out how we can scale #CommunityOwnership nationwide. 📖 Read more: https://bit.ly/4h0aMo1

Grants are getting harder to come by and local authority budgets are tightening. But social investment could provide a route often overlooked by small charities. 🤝 @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social explore 7 tips to help take your first steps into social investment: https://bit.ly/4eZjuAl

“This funding allows us to expand our vital work and provide a safe, recovery-focused environment for women.” Newquay Lighthouse Project CIC needed an investment to open a new house for women in recovery. Find out more about the @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social case study here: https://bit.ly/3R6FRfi

The biggest community sector event of the year is back 🎉 #Locality26 Convention is coming to #Leicester! Expect: • Inspiring stories • Practical tools, resources and motivation • New connections 📅 1–2 December 2026 Tickets: https://locality.org.uk/events/locality-convention

The £61 million Community Right to Buy Fund is a welcome move to help save our spaces. However, we know demand will far outstrip the money available, so this needs to be the start of an ambitious step change for community ownership.

How do you scale your services when the need is growing faster than your resources? In @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social latest case study, they explore how Keep Active NE CIC used blended finance to expand their services and support more people in their community. 🔗Read more: https://bit.ly/4d87GfD

Our new report and action plan Creating Places for Everyone explores the vital role of place-based community organisations in the pursuit of racial justice & sets out how we will support our members to make positive social change. 📖 https://locality.org.uk/creating-places-for-everyone

Tees Valley’s Half Moon Inn faced closure due to rising costs and a deteriorated building. Despite warnings he was “mad”, Martin stepped in. How did he turn risk into success & what role did social investment play? Read more in our blog with @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/406aSRx

Are you looking for an investor that truly understands your social impact organisation? Check out the Good Finance Investor Directory! It features 100+ social investors, all over the UK. ➡️ https://www.goodfinance.org.uk/investors?utm_source=locality _bluesky&utm_medium=organic_social

The Museum of Community Futures shares powerful stories of local people across Greater Manchester defying the odds to achieve extraordinary change in their places. 📆 12–14, 19–21 March 📍Factory International Presented by @right-here.org & @greatermcr.bsky.social www.right-here.org/museum-of-co...

JUST LAUNCHED: our report and action plan Creating Places for Everyone explores the vital role of place-based community organisations in the pursuit of racial justice & sets out how we will support our members to make positive social change. 📖 https://locality.org.uk/creating-places-for-everyone

New research & action plan - join us at our launch event to hear what we’ve learnt and how we've developed a new practical support offer for our members that puts racial justice at the heart of our work. Book your place: https://locality.org.uk/events/creating-places-for-everyone-launch-webinar

Tees Valley’s Half Moon Inn faced closure due to rising costs and a deteriorated building. Despite warnings he was “mad”, Martin stepped in. How did he turn risk into success & what role did social investment play? Read more in our blog with @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/406aSRx

🔊 Calling charities & social enterprises. Help shape @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social's future. Share what works, what doesn’t & what support you really need for your social investment journey in their short survey. 🎁 Win a £50 voucher 👉 https://goodfinanceuk.typeform.com/to/xpAtn7MV

.@goodfinanceuk.bsky.social asked 3 experts to predict emerging trends in the world of social investment for 2026. Their blog unpacks the biggest developments in the social investment space and what this means in practice for charities and social enterprises. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3ZHeCsi

Ready to expand your #SocialInvestment knowledge in 2026? Good Finance e-learning program Social Investment Unpicked is beginner friendly and CPD-accredited! Join the next cohort starting 3 Feb. Register now: https://goodfinanceuk.typeform.com/to/Wz6GBWPz?typeform-source=www.goodfinance.org.uk

❄️Season's greetings from all the team at Locality❄️ The Locality office will be closed from 24 Dec- 4 Jan. We will occasionally post updates for @theguardian.com's charity appeal. We look forward to seeing you in the new year with an amazing events schedule locality.org.uk/events

Applications for loans, grants & equity are falling — yet trust in social investment is rising. What’s really going on? Good Finance’s latest blog unpacks SEUK’s State of Social Enterprise report and what it means for charities & social enterprises. 👉 www.goodfinance.org.uk/latest/post/...

🔎 New report shows the government’s upcoming Local Power Plan is a rare win–win: accelerating net zero and strengthening community infrastructure. Clean Power = Community Power shares stories, insights & practical guidance. 📄 Read more: https://locality.org.uk/reports/clean-power-community-power

Tony Armstrong, CEO of Locality, responds to the 2025 Budget: “We need ambitious, long-term, coordinated investment in community assets to get behind community organisations & help them drive national renewal from the ground up.” Read the full response: https://locality.org.uk/news/budget-2025

100 years in the making, the #IFS100 #locality25 Convention has been exceptional. Thank you to everyone who attended, spoke, hosted a visit, supported, exhibited, was nominated for an award, and inspired us. Together, we have the tools, vision, and tenacity to create community-powered neighbourhoods

Evening at #Locality25!

Thank you so much to the supporters and exhibitors at #Locality25! Make sure you check out their stands in the exhibition hall and get advice and tips for your organisation 🙌

"Hope isn't gone - it lives in our neighbourhoods, in local people who refuse to give up on the places they call home... Government should ask communities not what we can do for you, but what we can do with you." - Jane Dawe, Safe Regeneration #Locality25

Locality CEO Tony Armstrong welcomes delegates to #Locality25 - a time to find solutions from within and give ourselves energy and inspiration

Melissa Aase, CEO of the International Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, opens #IFS100 #Locality25 “The people of our movement, of Locality’s movement, have worked together as a network to build community strength, no matter where we are in the world, for the last 100 years.”

We’re at Anfield Stadium ready to kick off #Locality25! We can’t wait to welcome our delegates and celebrate the #PowerOfCommunity #IFS100

At #IFS100 in Westminster, Tony Armstrong has announced our new report, “Community-powered neighbourhoods” In a time of social division, let's get power back to local people through the organisations that know them best – community anchor organisations Read here locality.org.uk/reports/comm...