Remember civically
Keep useful local evidence findable after the news cycle, meeting or campaign has moved on.
A civic knowledge network
Local public memory,
held in common.
Civic Commons brings together independent local reporting, public records, community knowledge and the connections between them — so what happens to a place does not disappear from view.
Live now
Ealing Civic Commons
One borough-wide commons, with local views for Ealing, Southall, Acton, Hanwell, Greenford, Northolt and Perivale.
The idea
Not another news site.
Connect the record
Link stories, people, organisations, places, decisions, documents and issues instead of leaving them in separate silos.
Keep sources visible
Point back to the reporting, records and community sources behind the picture rather than replacing them.
An older idea
The commons were never just land.
The Charter of the Forest of 1217 protected customary rights to shared resources against enclosure by power. Civic Commons carries that principle into public knowledge: useful local records, reporting and memory should remain accessible, connected and held in common.
A network, not a franchise
Built locally. Connected openly.
The first Civic Commons is in Ealing. The wider domain is here for other local Commons as the model develops — each rooted in its own place, sources and civic life.