Our Free Guides

Community Organisers has produced a range of free guides to help individuals and organisation embed the approach. Available for download are:

• The Community Organising Framework - Our flexible and adaptable model that brings together the key elements of the approach.
• Our Principles of Practice - A summary of the values and principles that guide community organisers in the work they do.
• A 'How To' Guide on Recruiting a Community Organiser - Detailed guidance on defining what a community organiser is and recruiting, selecting, managing and supporting them.
• Organising Effective Listening Campaigns - A 'how to' guide on creating and running a listening campaign to build community and identify concerns and priorities in a specific place, organisation or community of interest.
• A Guide to Power Analysis in Community Organising - A step-by-step process for identifying who has power in the community you are working with to enable you to begin to shift it.
• Issue Based Organising - A Handy Guide for Single Issue Groups - How to use community organising methodology to address social and political challenges by mobilising communities around a specific issue.