A group of friends is currently planning to approach the local council about getting to rent or being ceded some kind of facility to use as community space and find out about other support options that might be available for such a project.
While working with local government (or depending on them) has its risks and might turn out to be the wrong approach, we will at least consider it in the beginning - it might be surprisingly easy to get a space in this way, considering the many empty and abandoned properties where we live. Stepping in with a project the council deems support-worthy could really get us started.
So for that, I would like to design a small brochure or presentation with our ideas and find that rather hard. I have a list with what we would possibly include in such a space, but could do with some inspiration as to how to present it so it highlights how the community will profit from this project.
Has anyone ever designed such a document, or knows of one they could share? Or has any ideas to share? Successful recipes could and should be copied, documented, passed on.
So far, imagining loads of space and a factory-sized building, the ideal community space could have:
I don’t really have anything to offer for your proposal design, but do you have a local library? The library I work at does a lot of this stuff, and if you don’t already have one, you could pitch it that way. If you have conservatives on your local council, they might hear this list and start screaming about “socialism”, but those same people are usually more onboard with libraries even if they’re doing the exact same stuff.