Heard about community organising, but unsure exactly what it means?

In this bitesize online introduction to community organising, you will learn more about the universal tools and methodology of community organising. This session, open to all King’s staff, is suitable for complete beginners or those with a little understanding of the techniques and tools.

The session will be online and will last one hour.

How does community organising align with the One King’s Impact approach?

One King’s Impact is the University’s approach to uniting our assets and expertise to actively address urgent and deep-rooted global issues. The approach fosters connections and collaborations, and cultivates an environment where students, staff and partners receive support to achieve tangible impact across research, education and service, including financial support through the One King’s Impact Fund and networking and training opportunities through the King's Impact Changemakers network.

Some of the core components of the One King’s Impact approach include service with communities uniting with education and research, organising new communities to tackle identified issues, collaborating with external stakeholders to co-create and co-deliver positive changes and community-led solutions for people, planet and society. This is why we think community organising offers an innovative and exciting approach to supporting our goals.

Who will be leading the session?

King’s has an institutional partnership with Citizens UK, the UK’s biggest, most diverse, and most effective people-powered alliance who bring together everyday people and local organisations to build a better, fairer society using community organising techniques.

Recent King’s Alumni Vitoria Russo Gaino, Project Manager and Community Organiser with South London Citizens, will host this session to present an introductory guide to community organising skills and how they might be used to work with communities.

Vitoria is also a Co-Lead on the OKI funded project Southwark Equity Neighbourhood, which is using a community organising approaches like listening campaigns, co-producing solutions with local residents and gathering insights to inform the development of their action plan.