The best of Notwestminster 2017 – a compilation of our Blogs, Photos, Videos, Slides, Notes & Sounds

Notwestminster 2017

Blogs

#Notwestminster 2017 – Matt Stroud
“…much like everyone else in the room, I was completely unprepared for just how emotional and powerful this story would be.”
#Notwestminster 2017: and breathe – Diane Sims
“We drew breath. We wiped away the tears. Then we got up and went about the business of trying to create a stronger local democracy.”
Making it good for the hackers – Dave Mckenna
“…notwestminster is like a tombola of ideas – you just don’t know what you are going to get. More like a market place (or agora) there is no single keynote or one dominating idea. I like this. It’s serendipitous.”
Experimenting with local democracy – Matt Clack
“The spirit of Notwestminster is changing the way I do my job.”
How can we create better local conversations? – Louisa Thomson
“..can councils and residents build relationships that explore priorities and hopes proactively, rather than in response to a crisis?”
It’s who you know – Joe Mitchell
“I joined a group of people discussing those occasions where small groups of people get together to do something for where they live.”
The One With Snow In It – Joe Mitchell
“The idea is that if we could really throw some effort and money at a random local by-election, we could prove that there are things we can do to boost informed voter turnout at local elections generally.”
Local democracy in action – a reflection on the #notwestminster conference – Sean Peacock and Sebastian Prost
“We both found the conference to be very engaging and not like anything we had attended before”
I went to Huddersfield to talk about local democracy for two days and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. – Louisa Thomson
“Notwestminster has given me motivation and enthusiasm again at just the right time”
What happens in Huddersfield doesn’t stay in Huddersfield:
Ideas for improving engagement in local government from Notwestminster 2017
“…we want to share some of the great stuff we heard.”
The feeling of Huddersfield – Emma Nielsen and David Moynihan
“…we wanted to explore local democracy in relation to decisions about the built environment.”
Tales from Notwestminster – John Popham
“This is the third year that Notwestminster has happened and the event just goes from strength-to-strength.“
Notwestminster 2017 – Rowena Farr
“The event involves a great combination of workshops, lightning talks as well as plenty of time for thought-provoking chats in-between.“
Independence for Herefordshire? – Ben Proctor
“This has been floating around my head for a while but some discussions I had while at Notwestminster over the past couple of days made me think I should write it down.“