Jimmy Pickering
Director of Communities, The Brilliant Club
Jimmy is Director of Communities at The Brilliant Club, overseeing the charity’s Parent Power initiative. He is also a trustee of Citizens UK. Jimmy's experience of seeing educational inequality in his hometown of Oldham led him to work to increase access to and success in higher education for underserved communities. He is especially passionate about working with communities in a meaningful way to ensure ordinary people influence change in the education sector.
Jimmy has recently undertaken a Churchill Fellowship, travelling to the US to learn about successful community organising with parent and carer leaders and comparing this to current practice in the UK.
11:15
1 8 July
Plenary workshop: Moving from personal to collective narratives: Storytelling in our institutions and communities
In this session we will revisit Ganz' public narrative with a focus on the stories of our institutions rather than individuals. This element of narrative is often underdeveloped or recedes to the background. We will spend time reflecting on how institutional and place based narratives could help to create change in our communities. This is an interactive session with real life examples of institutions using stories to improve themselves, work with their communities and create public value.