Circular Futures Collective

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Helping people read the world around them, name what is shaping their lives, imagine what could be different and act together to co-create fairer, greener and more regenerative futures in the places they call home.

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Circular Futures Collective (CFC) is a participatory, place-based civic praxis infrastructure being piloted across Merseyside and the Liverpool City Region.

We bring together everyday conversation, storytelling, Doughnut Economics, Paulo Freire’s approach to dialogue and critical consciousness, Democratic Participation, Participatory Budgeting, Circular Missions Prototypes, Local Showcase & Policy Workshops to help communities become co-authors and co-creators of the transition — rather than simply being consulted about it.

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The Doughnut gives us the Compass.

Paulo Freire gives us the Method.

Democratic Participation gives us Shared Agency.

Participatory Budgeting gives us the Power to Invest Together.

Circular Mission Prototypes turn investment into Real-World Experimentation.

Local Showcases and Policy Workshops turn the CFC process into Celebration, Learning and wider Systemic Change.

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ABOUT CFC

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A transition people co-create together

How can the places we call home meet everyone’s needs while caring for the living systems that make life possible?

That is the question at the heart of CFC — and one we explore together with communities.

We believe the transition to fairer, greener and more regenerative places cannot be designed elsewhere and then explained at and delivered to communities. Nor can it be achieved through data, policy, technology or institutional strategy working in siloes.

Climate, poverty, housing, transport, food, health, nature, work and democratic trust are often treated as separate challenges. But in everyday life, they are deeply connected:

How we get to work affects opportunity.
Where and how we live affects our health.
The way we produce and consume shapes both communities and the natural world.

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The transformation CFC seeks is both external and internal.

Externally

It supports communities and institutions to move from fragmented consultation towards shared understanding, practical action and policy learning.

Internally & Culturally

It helps people read the systems shaping their lives, question what has been treated as inevitable, and recognise their capacity to act with others.