Stroud Care Commons

Who we are and how to contact us

Stroud Care Commons is an informal group of local people who want to bring care provision in Stroud into community ownership in perpetuity, to make local care services available and affordable for everyone.

If you’d like to get involved, either as a prospective caree, carer, investor, steward or volunteer, please read the information on this page, and contact us. 

Roadmap and news

A small group interested in forming a care commons has started to meet monthly. We’re talking with the Equal Care Co-op – who have a model in Hebden Bridge that includes carers, recipients of care and their family members, all as full members – to see what might be viable in Stroud. We want to make sure that everything we do is safe and legal. Regulated care will probably be too much at first, as it involves a lot of work and complexity. We’ll be trying to meet with and learn from people involved in care in Stroud, to think more about what a care commons might look like. 

We will be holding a public event in October or November in the Trinity Rooms. We want to bring together lots of people who are already working in care in the largest sense of the word, to celebrate, join the dots and see what barriers we can overcome together.