Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️‍⚧️https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mjgtsuqfbk2b🎉 Announcing a new project today 🎉 A collaboration between Kinship Works and The Future Governance Forum, supported by Barrow Cadbury Trust @kinship.works @futuregovforum.bsky.social @barrowcadbury.bsky.social. Mapping the energy at the edges to improve government https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/re-energising-government-0e958707b8d1. 1/n14 Apr 2026 07:21 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjgtsuqfbk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mhx55az7jc2cOff to Liverpool to see how the Citizen First incubator has been going. A trip to Anfield to hear what the entrepreneurs have been up to. What a treat! I wrote about these methods in this post: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/how-to-activate-citizen-agency-6d1a7750608b26 Mar 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhx55az7jc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mhpnupien22mDoes anyone know a good dog walker in Liverpool? Need someone central-ish for the day later this week.23 Mar 2026 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpnupien22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mhdke2onpc22🔔 NEW today from @kinship.works 🔔 Ending the institutional monoculture. How can we spread more diverse institutional forms across the public sector and civil society? https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/escaping-the-institutional-monoculture-88891acb9773 (1/n)18 Mar 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdke2onpc22https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mhdke2onpc22🔔 NEW today from @kinship.works 🔔 Ending the institutional monoculture. How can we spread more diverse institutional forms across the public sector and civil society? https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/escaping-the-institutional-monoculture-88891acb9773 (1/n)18 Mar 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdke2onpc22https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mhd75b7w3c27Another quick share of this new post. 👇 On the capabilities required in government to make programmes like Pride in Place (and neighbourhood healthcare) a success. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhd75b7w3c27https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mhajpbgrvc23A new post on the capabilities government needs to support the work of civic renewal. I share three insights. 1. This work doesn't scale, it spreads. 2. Don't go for speed, go for traction. 3. Use your power to hold space open. (1/n) https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/building-a-civic-statecraft-0fe73aba0d2e17 Mar 2026 08:13 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhajpbgrvc23https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mhajpbgrvc23A new post on the capabilities government needs to support the work of civic renewal. I share three insights. 1. This work doesn't scale, it spreads. 2. Don't go for speed, go for traction. 3. Use your power to hold space open. (1/n) https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/building-a-civic-statecraft-0fe73aba0d2e17 Mar 2026 08:13 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhajpbgrvc23https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mgutcobyuk2dBrilliant job alert! 👇 And a wonderful initiative more generally. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Mar 2026 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgutcobyuk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mfqzxjbnb22cNew post: Can we use 'test and learn' methods in the NHS? What would it take to do so? Long but important! I think this is one of the biiggest delivery questions facing the UK government. https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/test-and-learn-in-healthcare-7f0da4697a0d26 Feb 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfqzxjbnb22chttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mfqzxjbnb22cNew post: Can we use 'test and learn' methods in the NHS? What would it take to do so? Long but important! I think this is one of the biiggest delivery questions facing the UK government. https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/test-and-learn-in-healthcare-7f0da4697a0d26 Feb 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfqzxjbnb22chttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mfhumtfthk2yExcited to be finally giving a talk at TransformGov! 👏👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Feb 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfhumtfthk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3me6zsx7nc22yA final Friday share of this new post, published this week. How do we activate citizen agency? Could we build an activation layer at the edges of public institutions? 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Feb 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3me6zsx7nc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mdzoudk5rk2iOne for Wednesday. With bonus metaphors… 👇👀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Feb 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzoudk5rk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mdww74y7ls27 📣 New today: How to activate the agency of citizens. 📣 A post exploring methods for activating citizenship, using a case study of the Citizen First model developed by @publiclife.bsky.social and currently running in the Liverpool City Region. 1/n https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/how-to-activate-citizen-agency-6d1a7750608b03 Feb 2026 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdww74y7ls27https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mdww74y7ls27 📣 New today: How to activate the agency of citizens. 📣 A post exploring methods for activating citizenship, using a case study of the Citizen First model developed by @publiclife.bsky.social and currently running in the Liverpool City Region. 1/n https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/how-to-activate-citizen-agency-6d1a7750608b03 Feb 2026 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdww74y7ls27https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mdn7iodpe222Some Friday reading! 👇 ☕ 📖 [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdn7iodpe222https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mdhzctfjhc2tEssential reading alongside today's final report from ICON, the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods. In the report below we get deep into the practice of civic renewal. A positive, progressive, local mode of collective action, growing in the cracks of our struggling old system. 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2026 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdhzctfjhc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mdfcze7nec27🎉 Launch day! 🎉 Today at @kinship.works we're publishing Civic Rewilding, our final report on the craft of civic renewal. We've synthesised the lessons from Big Local, one of the biggest ever experiments in rejuvinating the civic capacity of neighbourhoods. 1/n https://www.kinship.works/publications/civic-rewilding-applying-the-lessons-from-big-local27 Jan 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfcze7nec27https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mdfcze7nec27🎉 Launch day! 🎉 Today at @kinship.works we're publishing Civic Rewilding, our final report on the craft of civic renewal. We've synthesised the lessons from Big Local, one of the biggest ever experiments in rejuvinating the civic capacity of neighbourhoods. 1/n https://www.kinship.works/publications/civic-rewilding-applying-the-lessons-from-big-local27 Jan 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfcze7nec27https://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mcqukg27qs2tA new guest post I’ve written for Sam Freedman’s Substack, exploring the evidence on civic renewal and Labour’s communitarian turn… 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Jan 2026 05:04 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcqukg27qs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mch5gdrbr22gNew this week! The latest in our work mapping public sector reformers. 👏👏👏 @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social has pulled together the amazing responses we got to a shoutout before Christmas. He’s shared an update here: 1/n https://medium.com/kinship-works/mapping-public-sector-reformers-an-update-382f1de85d4c15 Jan 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mch5gdrbr22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jamestplunkett.bsky.social/post/3mch5gdrbr22gNew this week! The latest in our work mapping public sector reformers. 👏👏👏 @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social has pulled together the amazing responses we got to a shoutout before Christmas. He’s shared an update here: 1/n https://medium.com/kinship-works/mapping-public-sector-reformers-an-update-382f1de85d4c15 Jan 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:xtmhahgk5b67nkwoves7npup/app.bsky.feed.post/3mch5gdrbr22g