We’re super excited to announce an all new support package for the Community Reporters in 2025!

Thanks to funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, we’ve been able to design a core support offer to the Community Reporter Network. From meet-ups to peer learning spaces to skills development sessions – our team will be providing a mixture of training, mentoring and convening to support the Network to go from strength to strength.

Here are the upcoming sessions being held in 2025…

Community Reporter Meet-Ups

These 1-hour, online sessions provide an opportunity for Community Reporters to come together and share with others in the Network what you’ve been working on, as well as hear about the latest opportunities in the Network.

• 12pm – 1pm, Tuesday 11th March – Register Here
• 12pm – 1pm, Tuesday 10th June – Register Here
• 12pm – 1pm, Tuesday 9th September – Register Here
• 12pm – 1pm, Tuesday 9th December – Register Here

Community Reporter Skills Sessions

These are 1-hour online sessions that focus on a specific Community Reporting skill. They are designed as ‘top-up’ or ‘recap’ trainings for existing Community Reporters, as well as being introductory sessions for people who are interested in Community Reporting. 

• Using the Community Reporter website / 5pm – 6pm Wednesday 30th April – Register Here
• Story Reviewing / 5pm – 6pm Thursday 31st July – Register Here
• Video Recording Techniques / 5pm – 6pm Thursday 30th October – Register Here

Community Reporter Peer Learning Spaces

These are 90-minute, online peer supporter and learning spaces for people who are using Community Reporting in their work or social change projects that are facilitated by our team.

• Session One: Monday 10th March 12:00pm – 13:30pm – Register Here
• Session Two: Monday 16th June 12:00pm – 13:30pm – Register Here
• Session Three: Monday 15th September 12:00pm – 13:30pm – Register Here
• Session Four: Monday 8th December 12:00pm – 13:30pm – Register Here

Global Majority Communities Peer Learning Spaces

These are 90-minute, online peer support and learning spaces for people from Global Majority communities involved in lived experience storytelling, co-production and social change work, facilitated by our team.  

• Session One: Monday 12th May 12:00pm – 13:30pm – Register Here
• Session Two: Monday 10th November 17:30pm – 19:00pm – Register Here

We look forward to seeing you at the sessions!

Our 5th annual conference is set to take place in Liverpool this summer!

The conference will focus on the value of lived experience and how this can be used as a tool for creating equitable futures. We’ll explore how lived experience stories can help to address systemic issues such as racism, ableism and sexism that are currently damaging social progress.

The different sessions in the conference will focus on one or more of the following:

Insights: What we know from people’s lived experiences about present day inequalities and how equitable futures could be achieved

Methods: Techniques for working with lived experience as a tool for helping us to think about the future

Actions: What practical things we can do now to begin to create a more socially just future for ourselves and our communities

So, what’s going to be happening?

Take a look at our video breakdown below:

Whilst we’re currently at full capacity, don’t panic, you can add yourself to the waitlist below or follow the link to Eventbrite here. We’ll be checking in with those who have registered at regular intervals over the next couple of months – and allocating any last minute cancellations to people on the waitlist.

We can’t wait to welcome the network to the Women’s Organisation in July – see you then!