2026 Month 8 (September)

Goals:

• Reconnect with Nottingham group to organise another event 
• Love and Rage preparation and delivery

Have Achieved:

• New Member!
  • Welcoming Ams as a new human in SCRAPS space offering her experience in Social Media and Graphic Design. 
• Love & Rage
  • We had a solid presence in Love & Rage, holding a stall in the foyer for the weekend and then opening up craft and conversation space in the park on the Monday.
  • Had many really good conversations with rebels and community members around their experiences of and struggles in community. Holding space for people’s love, rage and curiosity.
  • We felt we held a really open and caring space for people to be in.
  • Debriefed the event and shared with XR Operations circle
• Soft Launching SCRAPS in XR Spaces
  • We held our stall at Love and Rage with both XR and SCRAPS branded resources talking to community and rebels alike, that in Climate spaces we have XR resources and beyond that we have SCRAPS.
• SCRAPS on Social Media
  • SCRAPS has posted its first few things on Instagram, a holding post on who we are and an advert for an upcoming workshop in Ely.
  • Have started looking at the Blog Plan and allocating topics between us, this will give us content for socials on top of promoting our work and commenting on the state of the world.
• Ruth is taking the Course on how we can become a legal entity
  • Has been to 2 sessions so far looking at legal structures for SCRAPS and collecting templates we can play with to create our founding documents.
• Planning Ely Workshop
  • We are collaborating with Common Underground to put on a Community Introduction workshop in Ely on October 10th. Again using the Yoga studio and building on our community connections there and with the neighboring cafe.
• Deep Dives in Co-Working Space through August and into September
  • Around Community Boundaries, who is in a community and who isn’t and when are these boundaries appropriate, when are they needed and when are they exclusionary.
  • What to do when we do harm. Regardless of best intent and preparation we are always going to have unexpected impacts in our community work and sometimes this means causing harm. What do we do in these moments?
  • Conflict Response Process for SCRAPS, Considering our own agreements and processes for holding each other in care through the work that we do. How do we practice trust building, how do we approach conflict responses, what are our agreements.
  • What SCRAPS could and should and might be, riffing off the Fuse course exploring structures and models, how we handle finances and ensure our needs are met.

Next Steps:

• Organise our next COMMUNITY MEAL!
• Finish a new Zine!
• Hold the Ely Workshop – October 10th