World changers wanted: Chain Reaction

There are few problems we can’t crack when we all get around a table to talk things through. Which is the theory behind Chain Reaction – two days worth of talking things through. One really big table.





Chain Reaction has been thirty years in the making. It’s thirty years since Community Links started working in the East End - providing benefit support, setting up youth offending services and running after-school clubs (they even found time to create a little organisation called We Are What We Do along the way. Overachievers.) What thirty years has taught them is that communities, together, will come up with their own best solutions. And that they will work best when implemented by Government, by their own community leaders and by you. Which is precisely who is on the invite list…





Chain Reaction runs over two days (November 17 & 18th) in London. Attendees will be ‘People with power, and people whose only power is their own actions.’ There will be 500 community leaders, 100 who will be under 25. Together they will (deep breath) explore social action and how to make it stick and road-test tools for social change; they will wonder aloud if entrepreneurs really can change the world and look at how story-telling might move us all; they will look at why an architecture of change must contain a role for the arts, for theatre, for media and then promptly get us to all draw, sing and dance our way towards it. We have it on good authority that there will be a firm commitment to tea drinking. And that there will be general thought-piloting from politicians and activists like Jon Bird and Tim Smit, from community workers and entrepreneurs (Sir Richard Branson, Mark Thompson Director General of the BBC), from CEOs and from ordinary Joe’s.





If you are someone with a creative approach to problem-solving, someone with a faith in community and a hunch that – together – we’ve got all the answers we need, then they have a you-shaped hole on their invite list. Rectify that pronto. Visit http://www.chainreaction.org and find out more.