Track Metrics that Build Power – Community Organising Foundations

If you’re organising without tracking your progress, you’re missing one of the most powerful tools you have. Data in organising isn't about numbers for their own sake – it's about understanding whether you’re building real power and using that insight to sharpen your strategy.

This training explores what data really means for people power, how to measure what matters, and how to use it to develop leadership and collective accountability. Through practical exercises and real scenarios, you'll tackle the challenges organisers face around data – from getting people to input it consistently to keeping it secure – and discover how to turn numbers into shared learning and celebration. You'll leave with practical tools and a clearer sense of how data can strengthen your organising.

Outcomes:

• Understand why we use data for leadership and power building in organising.
• Practise how to use data in organising and to support collective accountability.
• Reflect on how you can apply these principles to your own work.

This training is part of our foundations series, designed for both new and experienced organisers who are ready to develop practical organising skills. We recommend taking the introduction training first to understand the core concepts of transformative community organising.

Meet the facilitators

Stephanie Wong is a community organiser, facilitator and collective care practitioner. She has won with many others on issues from citizenship for young people, securing better wages for 1000s of staff and winning housing for those seeking asylum. She has trained hundreds of community leaders who have gone on to win local and national policy change and political elections. She has taught at Stanford, Harvard, UCL and LSE University. She built Act Build Change with her husband Ricky in 2018 in response to some of the inaccessible ways organising was taught in the UK. Together, they hoped to give a contribution to the field of organising that would allow more of us to get great organising training in accessible, dignified and transformative ways.

Kate McIntosh has organised people who are sharply affected by injustice to act together, exercise power and win change. She has trained hundreds of campaigners and equipped people to lead in their communities to secure rent cuts, pay rises, and policy change. Before Act Build Change, Kate was a community organiser based at a food bank where she organised people on very low incomes to win service charge cuts and build support for social security reform. She has roots organising in students’ unions, ACORN, and grassroots neighbourhood campaigns on issues ranging from disability rights in higher education to dangerous tower block cladding.

Cost

• Free for Full Members (those with a paid membership) using the discount code below.
• £15 for everyone else.

If you would like to become a Full Member (and get access to lots of other great events, trainings and more), visit our membership page to get started.

Access

This event will be held online using Zoom. The link will be shared with registered attendees before the start of the event.

To avoid difficulties accessing the workshop, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address that you intend to use on Zoom.

Please get in touch if there is anything we can do to support your participation in this session. This includes, but is not limited to, language, comfort, and access (physical, emotional, technological) needs.