Tools and Ideas

So you are thinking about taking this to the next stage. As we have said, the solution in your area needs to fit your community and circumstances. As the group reads this, it is time to take the first democratic step and share the idea with your community.
To help you do this, we have created a workshop plan and online tools for asking the questions that will help you take this further.

Explore this workshop plan on Mural

Useful Tools and Ideas

Tools

Ideas

Some additional ingredients

  • A respected community organisation(s) with strong connections, high levels of trust, and an appetite for community leadership and participation

  • An anchor funder(s): someone to provide the money in a healthy shape for communities to manage

  • Someone (or an organisation) to choreograph the coming together of communities and the money

  • Access to organisations and people with process talents: knowledge and skill with the ideas of democratic money, for example including co-design, social investment strategies, grant-making, impact management, legal context, learning, and models of democracy