When did we collectively give up our sense of agency, and our responsibility to future generations?
Optimism feels out of fashion right now. It often feels easier, even safer, to assume the future will be worse rather than better.
When did we collectively give up our sense of agency, and our responsibility to future generations?
I know a brighter future is possible because I see it taking shape. In Grimsby. In Rochdale. In communities across our country.
This isn’t about a new central government programme or a fresh policy initiative. It’s about people choosing to take responsibility where they can. Contributing what is within their gift to give. Deciding not to pass their problems on. Choosing to leave something better behind than what they inherited. At Our Future, we work with hundreds of people who are not waiting for permission. They are already building something better. The talent and ambition are not missing. What is often missing is the infrastructure that allows that energy to grow rather than stall. That is the work we have been doing alongside partners in the towns where we work. Not delivering projects to places, but helping to put in place the conditions that allow people working for the common good to become more than the sum of their parts. To come together. To back one another. To attract resources. To turn shared ambition into lasting change.
Click below to read the full publication by Emily Bolton and learn more about what it takes for change to happen, the infrastructure that allows ambition to grow rather than stall and what Our Future are learning as this work develops. We’d love for you to read it.
