The Community Councillor Collective is just getting started and we are looking for councillors to join us to help shape the collective. It will be run by councillors ourselves, and will evolve as we evolve.
Whether you are already a community councillor or interested in working in this way, or interested in what we are doing, you can sign-up for updates via one of the two forms below.
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About The Community Councillor Collective
The Community Councillor Collective was initiated by Fiona Barrows, a town councillor in Frome, Somerset. As a councillor, she leads on the climate and ecological emergency work programme, and is a consistent advocate for inclusivity and participation in decision-making.
Fiona is part of Independents for Frome, a group that formed in 2011 to take party politics out of local politics, and has led the town council ever since. As Peter Macfadyen, one of the initiators, said:
“We were a bunch of people who'd never done it before, we got into power and we questioned all the rules, took most of them to pieces, and did things very differently.”
The Community Councillor Collective builds on the work Peter subsequently did through Flatpack Democracy, but centres participation over independence, and is for councillors at all levels of government, and all parties as well as none at all.
The Community Councillor Collective was incubated by The Iswe Foundation. It is hosted by The Social Change Nest on Open Collective.
We are actively seeking funding so please do get in touch if you think you can support us.
And if you’d just like to say hello, send Fiona an email on fiona@fionabarrows.com.