Civic activism toolkit

Here’s a curate’s egg for yer. In Northern Ireland the Building Change Trust has just published what it calls a grassroots democracy toolkit for civil society.

There’s lots to like. I was immediately impressed by the structure and design of the site: it neither overwhelms me with choice and information, nor feels stingy or shallow in what it is revealing. That’s a smart piece of design.

Against that, there’s surely not much excuse for the peculiar masculine bias and old-fashioned total whiteness of faces in the graphics. More than 5 out of ten for sure, but a pity.