Blogs, Mini-systems

MINI SYSTEMS 3: Guardians of the Good Enough

10 November, 2022

By Simon Travers, POP Learning Champion The first two blogs on the POP ‘Mini System’ experiment told the story of how POP allocated a £40,000 grant by...

Mini Systems Blog 2: Time and Chance Happen to Them All

03 October, 2022

Simon Travers, POP Learning Champion The first blog of this series on the POP ‘Mini Systems’ experiment told the story of how a £40,000 grant was awarded...

Mini Systems Blog 1: We Did a Democratic Lottery

14 September, 2022

By Simon Travers, POP Learning Champion In the past five years, part of POP’s vision for its role as a local place-based funder has been to challenge...

The second mini systems draw

04 August, 2022

We’re back! Alongside the larger £40,000 award we had four £5,000 awards to make. Being consistent with the process already run, we carried out a...

Mini systems draw has been made!

18 July, 2022

It’s been an exciting time and we have made the draw! Group submissions

Open Space to Closed Collective

23 June, 2022

A quick thought after we have started to invite the group to contribute ideas (being collated here) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1olLYDIGkunaYkcn1A3lLVM4qbAUPpvIVQKxaQWMLVnM/edit As...

Mini systems - themes emerging

14 June, 2022

Notes on conversations about collaboration: People recognise it’s important, but what actually is it? Some feel there isn’t enough, that often projects...

Progress update 14/6/22

14 June, 2022

We had 38 initial sign ups, 5 do not wish to participate anymore, 8 have been in contact but have not yet been able to attend a session and 7 have yet...