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Together Culture CIC, Cambridge (2026)

12/05/2026

Things you can do today for a new economy tomorrow.

Almost 100 people visited the Kite Nature Project on Saturday. And what we kept hearing was the same thing: I want this, I just don’t know if it’s possible.

That gap between wanting a different world and believing you can help build it is a culture problem.

The stories we’ve inherited about who gets to shape the economy, about whether ordinary people have the power to change anything structural, run deep.

They show up in how we talk about money, about growth, about what counts as realistic. They follow us into every meeting, every project, every moment we try to reach for something different.

Stories like ‘real change is done by other people’.

But here’s what living systems show us: things don’t change because of one large, powerful actor. They change because of the persistent, skillful acts of countless interdependent parts. Nitrogen fixers. Pollinators. Mycorrhizal networks. The organisms you never see, doing the work that makes everything else possible.

On Saturday, that looked like:

- Neighbours turning up to explore our permaculture Nature Project, and learning something amazing about the cooperative heritage of their neighbourhood

- Residents of Brandon Court opening their home to strangers

- A shared ten-year permaculture project to build community wealth together, and trust that the harvest doesn’t have to happen on your watch to be worth planting.

That’s how cultural change works. Slowly, relationally, at the root.

If that resonates, and if you’re ready to move from understanding the problem to being part of the practice, we’d love you to join us for Nothing Changes Without You, our new 3-session live workshop series built for people who already feel the pull of this work but aren’t sure their efforts add up to anything. It uses the living ecosystem as a direct reference point, because nature has always known how change actually works. Sessions run outdoors, in the Kite Nature Project itself.

Nothing Changes Without You | Sat 30 May, Sat 13 June, Sat 27 June | 12 - 1.30pm

Booking in bio - or DM us ‘CHANGE’ and we’ll send you the details.

08/05/2026

The economic story we’ve inherited isn’t working. Here’s what’s giving us hope.

Something shifted in a room in London last month.

Together Culture joined an international cohort for the first in-person gathering of the New Economy Leadership Academy: a programme led by Partners for a New Economy, Common Purpose, and The Human Edge.

A room full of people from different sectors, countries, and disciplines, all working on some version of the same problem:

How do you keep going when the system you’re trying to change keeps sidelining the people proposing something different?

That’s what the programme calls Leading Beyond Authority.

And it’s harder than it sounds, because the economic story we’ve all inherited runs deep. Infinite growth. Extraction. Competition as the organising principle of human life. It shapes institutions and our own habits of thought.

What the New Economy Leadership Academy gathering offered was something rarer than a good workshop. It was a reminder that we’re part of a global crew of people pulling in the same direction. Thousands of people around the world are quietly doing the work of building the structures, practising the skills, and finding each other in the process.

That matters. The story we’ve been living (infinite growth, extraction, competition as the organising principle of human life) isn’t working because it isn’t true, and more people are naming that now than at any point in recent memory.

🌱 Scotland legislated for a different economic model.
🌱 Communities are reorganising around different values.
🌱 The outsiders are starting to be heard.

It’s slow. It’s non-linear. And yes, it’s happening alongside profound and ongoing suffering that none of this work should trivialise.

But there is something genuinely hopeful about a room full of strangers becoming a crew.

04/05/2026

What if a shared patch of ground is the start of economic change?

This April, Brandon Court residents and Together Culture members worked side by side at the Kite Nature Project. And something that felt unlikely six months ago became real: residents trusting us enough to open their home to the public.

When they shared what being part of this space means to them, they didn’t talk about plants. They talked about balance, and the moment you notice that humans, soil, insects, weather, and neighbours are all part of the same system.

Because if you can tend one small ecosystem together, you can start to imagine changing bigger ones.

Like the economy, which is really just how we organise our communities to actively support each other’s wellbeing, and the life upon which we all depend.

This ground has always known that. Once called the Garden of Eden, this was a heritage market site that fed Cambridge for generations: shaped by people who understood, in a very practical way, that we are part of nature, not separate from it.

We’re reimagining it now as a shared ten-year permaculture project, using approaches observed in flourishing natural ecosystems.

And on Saturday 9 May, you’re invited to come and experience it for yourself.

Kite Nature Project at Brandon Court | 11am – 4pm | Prospect Row

Part of the Kite and Christ’s Pieces Residents Association Open Garden Day. Tickets (£10 per adult) are available from the Unitarian Church on Emmanuel Road. Tea and cake on offer, and all proceeds go to

Want to stay connected with the Kite Nature Project? Drop us a reply and we’ll keep you in the loop.

01/05/2026

The first meeting, there was real energy. The second: the same people, more cautious. By the third, someone was talking about governance structures and the original idea had stopped in its tracks.

You can trace the moments where it shifted. What you can’t yet do is name the invisible thing that keeps converting momentum into stasis.

It’s not a strategy problem. It’s a story about what this system is and what it’s for, that reasserts itself every time something threatens to change it.

Everything you’re already doing is part of this. The convening, the translating, the holding of spaces where something different becomes possible. You’re already shaping economic reality.

What the right tools give you is the ability to see the whole picture, name what’s blocking it, and move with more of your people beside you.

That’s why we’re running a Change the Story, an interactive, practical workshop exploring how culture change and economic change intersect, how to find the narratives holding back regenerative work, and how to reshape them collaboratively into a strategy that opens up a new direction of travel.

You’ll map where the blocking story came from, what it’s protecting, and where your first real leverage point is. You leave with a Narrative Roadblock Map built from your own context, ready to use the very next day.

It’s free. It’s 75 minutes. And it’s built for people who are done watching good ideas stall.

DM ‘STORY’ and we’ll send you the details.

27/04/2026

Struggling to imagine a future that’s genuinely different from the one you’re already living in? Your imagination isn’t broken — it’s just out of practice.

Activist and writer Rob Hopkins argues we’re living through an imagination crisis, not because humans have lost the capacity to imagine, but because we’ve built a world that systematically discourages it.

The mental models shaped by our current economy — competition, extraction, the quiet assumption that things can’t really change — don’t just live in boardrooms and balance sheets. They live in us. They follow us into every planning session, every vision exercise, every moment we try to reach for something genuinely different.

The good news? Our imagination muscles can be rebuilt.

The Future Backwards is a tool designed to interrupt that pattern. Instead of planning forward from where you are — constrained by everything you already believe is possible — you start ten years ahead, in the future you actually want. Then you work backwards to now.

Here’s what that looks like for the Kite neighbourhood in Cambridge:

A Kite Heritage Cooperative paying dividends to its members.

A thousand local stories shared and turned into digital tools that help the community understand and own its own narrative.

A Living Museum and self-guided walking tour that visitors seek out, and that local people feel pride in.

A network of permaculture gardens linking community spaces and private homes.

A Kite Tea cooperative - locally managed, biodiversity targets met, returns distributed back to the community, and the model being adopted elsewhere in the UK.

Ten years. Worked backwards. Built with the community, not for it.

That’s what a different economy looks like when imagination is put back to work.

Find out more and join our next online intro session on 14 May at www.togetherculture.com - link in bio.

21/04/2026

Ever been puzzled by a colleague’s reaction? Here’s how to bridge the gap.

It’s not a personality clash. It’s human wiring.

We’re all emotional beings, carrying values and triggers we’re often not even aware of. When those values feel honoured, we show up creative, generous and open. When they feel threatened — even unintentionally — we can go quiet, prickly, or reactive.

At our first Living Together Retreat in March, we explored the SCARF model — a brain-based framework developed by leadership researcher David Rock that helps you:

→ Understand your own triggers and tendencies
→ See a situation through someone else’s eyes
→ Choose how to respond — rather than just react

And here’s what makes this radical: we’ve all been trained by a competitive, zero-sum economy to protect ourselves, hoard ideas, and treat collaboration as a nice-to-have. That training runs deep. It takes deliberate, repeated practice to unlearn it.

That’s what Together Culture is for.

Building a more inclusive and ecological economy isn’t just about better policies. It requires people who can actually work together across difference, across competing interests, across the friction that real community involves.

Masterful collaboration isn’t a soft skill. It’s the foundation.

The good news? It’s entirely learnable. We just need to practise it — together, consistently, with people committed to doing the same.

The SCARF model is one of the tools we use to make that real. But the deeper work starts with the stories we carry about community, economy, and what’s actually possible.

That’s what our ‘How to Find and Shift the Story That’s Blocking Community Wealth’ workshop is for. There are two places left for our digital workshop on 8 May - comment ‘Story’ below and we’ll be in touch.

17/04/2026

Trust isn’t a trait. It’s a practice, and it might be the most radical economic act available to us right now.

Trust isn’t a team away-day. It’s not a values poster on the wall.

It has to be learned, practised and repeated — consistently, over time — until it becomes the way you do things.

Here’s why that matters beyond the room you’re sitting in: the economy is a human system. It was shaped by people, and it can be reshaped by people. But only if we can remember how to live in genuine community — groups of people actively supporting one another’s wellbeing, not just coexisting.

To shift the system, we need to build new bonds of trust. Decide how we want to strengthen them. And start from there.

That’s why at Together Culture we talk about Turning Up — not just being physically present, but arriving with openness and attentiveness. And yes, that’s harder than it sounds in a world designed to keep us distracted, guarded and competing.

One of the simplest tools we use to make this real is the Weather Report.

Before diving into an agenda, we take a moment to share how we’re actually doing. Sunny with a few clouds? Full-on tornado? It costs nothing, takes minutes, and it changes everything about what becomes possible when you start working together.

Trust doesn’t scale broadly — it scales deeply, at the speed of consistency. Small rituals, practised deliberately, in every gathering. That’s how it accumulates. That’s how a different kind of economy becomes possible — not through a single policy change, but through thousands of rooms learning to work differently.

At Together Culture, we’re not just talking about these skills. We’re practising them together, every time we meet.

Not a culture code on the wall — the beginnings of an economy built on trust.

The Weather Report is one small piece of that. ‘Change the Story. Shape the Strategy’ is a workshop where the deeper work begins — understanding the stories that shape how we think about community, economy, and what’s actually possible.

If you’re ready to explore that, comment ‘Story’ below and we’ll reach out to you.

03/04/2026

How can Ecosystem Thinking unlock transformational change?

Think of a garden. Every part plays a role, and everything supports something else:

☀️ The sun energises the plants
🐦 Birds and squirrels move seeds and nuts to new areas
🌸 Plants provide pollen for bees and insects
🐝 Insects pollinate the plants
🪱 Earthworms and fungi recycle nutrients back into the soil, feeding new growth

Now — what if we applied that thinking to people?

Ecosystem thinking means seeing yourself as part of a bigger web of relationships.

Instead of “it’s just me and my goals”, you start to notice how your actions affect others, how theirs affect you, and how sharing skills, ideas and resources benefits everyone.

With this mindset, we build relationships where everyone can thrive — and find collaborations that tackle problems and create opportunities none of us could reach alone.

That’s how we can create transformative change in the world.

It starts with a collaborative culture, where the ‘all-about-me’ mindset becomes ‘we’.

As more of us start thinking like this - we start to build a culture that means we’re starting from a totally different place. Less competition, more collaboration.

Want to explore ecosystem thinking in more depth? Join us for our Ecosystem Thinking workshop series:

📅 Sat 30 May, 12–1.30pm
📅 Sat 13 Jun, 12–1.30pm
📅 Sat 27 Jun, 12–1.30pm

These sessions are where ecosystem skills come to life - and where change starts to take root.

These workshops will take place in the permaculture garden we’ve been building as part of our Kite Nature project.

Visit www.togetherculture.com to join us.

20/03/2026

Fascinating article from Alex Clark at the about the connection between economic growth and carbon emissions. As it becomes more and more urgent to take a different approach, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has called for economies to “move beyond GDP” as a measure of progress.

We highly recommend reading the full story, which gives an overview of the post-growth movement, explores how closely many countries economies are tied to CO2 emissions, and reminds us what’s at stake as seven out of nine planetary boundaries have now been breached - – hard environmental limits that, once crossed, could have disastrous consequences.

You can find the full article by linked in our bio 🌍

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