UK Commons is currently being set up and will become a charitable company limited by guarantee. This is a legal structure recognised and regulated by the charity commission as a limited trading company.
The UK Commons is part of the ecosystem of organisations being set up as part of the Distributed Network Ecosystem, that we call the DisCo! The DisCo stands for Distributed Cooperative. UK Commons is working with both People in Commons and Future Folk Sussex to evolve a new economic model that supports regenerative practices and processes.
One of the main purposes of the Charitable Company is to develop and support services that enable all sections of the community to access life affirming practices without having the barriers to access that have been created by a focus upon our current economic modelling.
If people are unable to access housing, food, energy, transport, education, health because their are barriers around affordability, we are creating a system where only those with available money and resources are able to flourish. This is not equitable, fair nor just and it is the mission of the charity to explore alternative models that enable wider inclusive access to services that would otherwise be unaffordable.
Time and care are crutial elements of the charities purpose. Our time is, we would argue, the most valuable resource we have. Currently this is only valued within the system if there is a quantifiable justification for spending this time on a particular task, with an outcome, measurable by the system.
Unlike our current economic modelling, our new ecosystem , The DisCo, allows for communities to value time very differently. There is no objectively measured output for spending some time with the people you want to spend time with, there needs to be no outcome other than the enjoyment of spending, and choosing to spend time doing the things that support you and your communities wellbeing.
This can not be defined by a system, we can not medicalise communities and prescribe them with the thing that we think they might need. What we do not have from our current economic system is the ability to stop, slow down, reduce our output and ask ourselves what we value about our world.
One area that I think we can all agree to value is life. Life of our friends, life of our communities, life of our planet. So, with this in mind, let us get to work in providing the time for communities and individuals to begin to process what is important to them and how might they live by those values.
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