A Community Hub: Cultivating Place, Participation & Hope

Last month Jo wrote a full blog post for www.streams.education here is an excerpt: The idea of a Hub did not emerge fully formed. It came from many conversations, longings, experiments, and failures. It was the connection with two courageous women who caught the vision and chose to join the team that enabled it to become a reality.

Some of the early seeds: • We saw many home-educated young people yearning for a place to gather, to explore, to belong outside conventional school settings. • We sensed that a community hub could act as a bridge between home and the wider world – a space of belonging, of growth, of experimentation.

Early stumbling blocks were many: finding a suitable venue, securing funding, aligning schedules, navigating local authority rules, and getting enough people willing to try something new. At times it felt like building a plane in midair; at times we asked, “Are we crazy?” But the conviction that community matters kept us pressing on. You can read the full article here: https://streams.education/a-community-hub-cultivating-place-participation-hope/