Learning Call on UK's People's Plan for Nature

This KNOCA Learning Call unpacked the motivation behind three of the UK’s largest charities commissioning a People’s Assembly and the wider National Conversation that fed into the Assembly.

We explored the blended nature of the Assembly – two weekends in person at the start and finish with two weekends online beforehand. And we explored the responses to the Plan and Assembly from the three commissioners and a number of other civil society and public bodies.

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The central theme running through the Learning Call was the creative tension between deliberative processes and civil society campaigning.

We were joined by:

• Helen Meech, previously Head of Movement Building at RSPB (now Executive Director of the Climate Coalition) who originally came up with the idea
• Kathryn Machin, Head of Community Engagement Campaigns at WWF-UK and co-commissioner of the People’s Assembly
• Sarah Castell, CEO of Involve who designed and delivered the Assembly
• Irenie Ekkeshis, Co-Founder and Director, New Citizenship Project who influenced the approach to the process
• Rebecca Lester, an assembly member.

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Read more about the People’s Plan for Nature here, the People’s Assembly for Nature here and the responses to the plan here.