The Small Change approach to community development starts with a common sense assumption: to achieve something big, start with something small and start where it counts.

The Small Change Forum (The Forum) is an active research and practice initiative developed by the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) and community arts organisation, Multistory. It is based on the Small Change approach to community development as championed by Nabeel Hamdi, Emeritus Professor (Oxford Brookes University).

The Small Change philosophy starts with the common sense assumption: to achieve something big, you need to start with something small and start where it counts. Projects, events and publications, as part of this initiative, explore how small, practical and mostly low budget interventions, if carefully targeted, act as catalysts for bigger long-lasting change; change that is designed to improve people's lives and their life opportunities.

The Forum promotes Small Change learning and practice in the UK and internationally with events and publications designed to share new ideas, tools, methods, practical wisdoms and principles that inform teaching and practice, and create a policy environment conducive to change. CENDEP continues to develop small change learning and research while Multistory is putting theory into practice with creative small change projects currently underway around the world.

Events

The Small Change Forum: Ingenious people make better places conference 2011

Multistory Small Change Creative Projects