We're Right Here is a national campaign for community power calling for legislation, which would devolve power to communities – over how money is spent locally, the design, commissioning and delivery of public services, and ownership of local assets.
We're Right Here is a coalition of national civil society organisations, community leaders and champions, with a campaign vision 'for people to have the power to shape their places/communities and have the rights and tools they need to come together and take control of their own futures.' The work has two key campaign strands: to broaden their campaign base and to maximise political impact.
Connection to Esmée's strategy
- Priorities
- Long-term outcomes
- Communities and their local corporate, cultural, public, voluntary and community sectors, work better together to achieve collective change.
From Veda Harrison, Director of Creative Confident Communities, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation:
We’re Right Here are an exciting group of committed community leaders, many of whom have been serving and advocating for change in their local areas for decades. As they have come together alongside civil society organisations and funders such as Esmée, achieving their objectives become possible. Esmée’s support for broadening and strengthening their community base to reflect a more diverse leadership across the UK aligns with our strategic outcomes.
From We're Right Here:
The Campaign is supported by a partnership of national organisations including Locality, Power to Change, New Local, People’s Heath Trust, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Esmée’s funding has enabled the campaign to strengthen and diversify community voice in its work, through:
- Engaging a group of eleven “Community Champions”, a passionate and committed team of advocates for community power that are building engagement with the campaign in their local area.
- Facilitating community engagement workshops that aim to build relationships with leaders from communities experiencing systemic marginalisation and understand how the campaign can represent the ambitions of their communities.
- Hiring a “Community Builder” that is leading on the two workstreams above alongside supporting ongoing centring of community voice across the campaign’s work.
