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Session 06 · Episodes 14–15

Civic Tools & Real Wins

The tools already sitting on the shelf: access to information, petitions, oversight bodies. Real cases where ordinary people used them and changed something.

Session outline

  1. 01The toolkit: ATI, petitions, oversight complaints, public participation
  2. 02Why 'goes nowhere' is still worth doing
  3. 03A short review of wins — from the Ogiek to Finance Bill 2024
  4. 04Documentation as long-game accountability
  5. 05Discussion: which tool will your Circle actually try first?

Full session script coming.

The complete read-aloud script for this session — adapted from the source podcast episodes — is being finalised. In the meantime, the outline above is enough to run a first meeting: read a heading, discuss, move to the next.