Community Works 2026 AGM
Over 80 individuals gathered on Tuesday 10 November for our Community Works’ AGM 2026: ‘Together for Change: Connecting Communities’
86 individuals gathered at Ralli Hall in Hove for this year’s Community Works AGM.
Attendees heard from guest speakers, learned about our updates and took part in a session to explore the subject of unity in action. They also took the opportunity to network with sector colleagues over a delicious lunch.
Our key note speaker, Bud Johnston Co-Founder of Black Anti-Racism Community Organisation CIC (BARCO) spoke on the subject of: ‘What Leading with Joy in Community Work Can Teach You About Belonging’.
BARCO is an organisation built on the idea that joy and celebration are tools for inclusion and resistance. Their talk introduced BARCO’s ‘joy as resistance’ approach and unpacked how it shapes everything from event design to everyday service delivery. The speakers shared what’s worked and what hasn’t in getting Black communities to walk through the door and staying engaged.
Members also learned from Community Works about practical approaches to allyship and its principals and heard the latest from our Communities Together project, which we developed in partnership with Adur Voluntary Action (AVA) to help build connection, inclusion and a sense of belonging across Adur and Worthing.
The lead contacts from each organisation also had the chance to vote to elect new trustees to our board and approve our annual accounts (amended version of the accounts with the updated change on page 2 to the figure of the number of people registering their interest to apply for volunteering). Finally, they voted on Special Resolution to adopt new Articles of Association .
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