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Derby Community Hub Progress Report
Progress period: 2025 to 2026
Release date: 10/05/2026
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Opening reflection: the sound of Derby
The sound of Derby is in the background.
One which we have mastered through the art of freedom: recording on the move, capturing Derby mottos, documenting real moments, and shaping some of the world’s best work as it is being scripted right now in audio, picture and writing.
We are all directors today.
Everywhere is our stage, and now we can all play a role together.
We like to write the stories, while also being on the move, gaining real life experience with the community, in real spaces. We are the
changemakers of today, just like
@derbyedward, championed us as recently in the industry.
Edward is a real life character at
@DerbyCollege who everyone loves: a great supporter of community growth, leadership and opportunity.
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A message of recognition for Edward
We look forward to making a special Derby Community Hub event for you, Edward.
Whether you want to play talk show, comedian, or simply enjoy the room with your special invites, we can look forward to opening conversations further around recognition and contribution programmes for our city, where everyone matters.
Maybe Anthony and Charles could help us here with ideas, especially with Charles interested in joining our board.
Over 20 years ago,
@ImSunnyClaire recognised you as the IT course leader when he was in education. That memory now connects to the present, where education, technology, community and leadership can meet again in a new way.
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The once in a lifetime opportunity
Edward gave us a once in a lifetime opportunity in Summer 2025, and we made the most of it.
We were more than prepared for 2026.
We documented every moment publicly to all of our stakeholders across both establishments, right up to making applications for grants, where we hope these organisations respond back to us soon, so we can continue this great work now and into the future.
Even if it is just one student using our service over one year, or 10, or 100, the option is there.
We want to offer these opportunities for as long as we operate as a community of innovation in technology and education.
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Key partnership progress
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Working with the Derby College Social Media team
There are now steps we want to make with the
@DerbyCollege Social Media team.
These include learning more about how to interact with communities better, acknowledging posts that were made by Derby College students on behalf of the organisations they do work for, and analysing our platform at TXTWRK, where their students were enrolled and developing.
This is important because we tagged Derby College in student posts, meaning there is already a public trail of participation, learning, activity and community involvement.
The improvements include understanding, at management level, when students are enrolling in workplace experience for their social media module.
Why?
Because it helps Derby College understand:
•how their students learn with other organisations;
•which months their posts will be posted;
•which channels of the community or business they are making a campaign for;
•how student work is being publicly represented;
•where recognition should happen;
•where guidance or safeguarding may be useful;
•how their internal social media team can engage with student campaigns as they develop.
This is not just a layer of recognition.
It is also a layer of security.
It also creates a pathway where students could ask the Derby College Social Media team a quick, simple question, or receive pointers while working with external organisations.
The aim is to build a stronger link between the students’ module and the Derby College Social Media team.
The goal is to continue being engaging, as the Derby College team engaged with us in the months before we partnered together, liking our posts at times. That showed we shone through back then, and that there was a team that saw us.
Ideally, we now need you to see the students’ posts too.
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Communication improvements
Now let’s talk about Derby College’s improvements in communication, but also our own.
We could have been more interested in wanting to follow up with a bumper email. This is more so a weakness in our structures too.
We sent an email, we did not get a response, and we should have been more interested in following up with another email to ensure this partnership remained live.
This is a classic community-to-community issue.
We will address these issues further by enforcing that email is a basic protocol that requires weekly or monthly check-ins. Even when we are busy working on other agendas, certain emails should still be fired out, with follow-ups too.
We will aim to do better as a community.
As we expand, new efficiencies will be recognised.
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Derby Community Hub, TXTWRK Checklists and Social Media Development
From our
@DerbyCommunityHub!Community Tools: Checklists: Social Media Development! where Derby College
@DerbyCollege students have already participated, future students will be able to see how students worked in the past, with organisations publicly and transparently before enrolling.
That is why TXTWRK Checklists is a powerful tool.
The truth is that we were working on a very agile working framework through our community hub on TXTWRK at the same time. Therefore, the tool itself even took on important updates whilst the students were using it, but the experience was not compromised.
There was originally a direction of everyone making their own checklist. Through feedback, we improved the technology so that a checklist could be copied, which we made possible in a matter of a few hours.
In the end, this became more efficient during an early turn in the development of our partnership, as the students were able to work through the Derby Community Hub checklist while the framework continued developing around them.
Later on, we realised that copying a checklist was not always the greatest feature for every community route. It is often better when each community, organisation, team or student group can make their own checklist from the start, with their own purpose, history, updates and contributions.
That is the real power of TXTWRK Checklists.
It can support shared working, but it can also support independent community-led working.
In the future too, students can work through
@DerbyCollege:Checklists! where Derby College can begin to offer work experience directly for their own students, while keeping the structure, recognition and progress visible in one place.
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Student experience and real community recognition
We enjoyed reviewing the students’ essays once, twice, and sometimes a third time, as requested by the students.
This included helping them construct their next campaign for Derby Community Hub, playing a real life moment in community, and gaining experience that can open new doors.
This is experience they can document on their CVs, right up to mentioning how they interacted with innovative startups in their next interview.
Sunny has also been spotted in Derby by some of the students a few times and greeted with a “Hey Sunny” as we casually pass through the city of Derby. That shows a level of respect for his work and the relationship that was built beyond the screen, beyond the classroom, and into the real community itself.
The students can now lead the way.
They practically did the work for Edward, Anthony and Charles, where they provided a full review of their experience, not knowingly, and their work shone through in their understanding of what social media is. This included their in-depth summaries of the new Derby startup TXTWRK.
We got the intel without final review data.
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Why TXTWRK matters for future students
The great thing is that TXTWRK offers this opportunity publicly and transparently.
It gives people the chance to work confidently, adding to their career profiles from early life right up to later life.
Through
@DerbyCommunityHub’s and
@UnitedKingdom’s checklists, people can shape community, have a say, and leave contributions that could be remembered in hundreds of years to come.
We do not want to be the only option.
That is the power of community.
We will offer work placement opportunities to all educational institutions in Derby, within our constraints, aiming to create management depths of volunteering that help us grow and set a benchmark for other organisations to follow in the future.
When we see
@DerbyCollege make their page, we look forward to guiding them all the way through integration, with special service, as students have signed in numerous times over the last number of months since our last workshops.
Therefore, it is important to acknowledge.
We shown through our time together, we could adapt as a community in a timely manner, take on complex partnerships and requirements, adapt between another venture 'TXTWRK - the network: a Derby startup which will forever be here in the space, offering opportunities to everyone, worldwide' - which is now a key component of how Derby.support operates, to change, upgrade technology and make students aware of their opportunities, from starting up to giving feedback for our city, made for everyone.
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Current campaign priority: the 100 question questionnaire
Right, in other news, we continue to progress.
Our priorities are focused around campaigning for everyone to answer our 100 question questionnaire.
This is one that can open your eyes into what is around us, or what can be around us.
It is not just any questionnaire.
It is one which really makes a difference, where we can all begin to shape Derby to cater for its citizens, us, everyone who lives, works and makes Derby a better place.
@DerbyCommunityHub:Qs!
Get into the questions now.
This is your chance to promote this questionnaire to all family and friends today.
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Wider Derby Community Hub update
In essence, this is an all-in-one Derby Community Hub update from over the last few months.
It covers:
•what we have been working on;
•our weaknesses as a community;
•our willingness to be transparent;
•our ability to be constructive without hurting community feelings;
•the creation of new and existing spaces where we can all contribute better;
•the ongoing development of TXTWRK as a platform for community growth.
We have even started benchmarking with
@TXTWRK!Documentation: Location: Addresses! this Spring 2026.
This includes working on technology that can help communities and startups make shared working spaces using the TXTWRK Addresses feature.
This can be beneficial to any community on the planet wanting to share bills and increase more visitors to their stores or centres.
We needed a way inwards.
We needed an address.
Or even better, a shared address.
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The Joseph Wright Centre and future volunteering
Derby College members have assured us that there are pathways into using The Joseph Wright Centre
@DerbyCollege, particularly the library, to lead the way of volunteering for the future on behalf of Derby Community Hub.
Derby Community Hub, through
www.Derby.support(
http://www.Derby.support), can use this as a great mini space, which can become the home of volunteering.
This can showcase Derby College practices on health and safety, right up to connecting with other organisations.
We want to be agile in this space and take on feedback at community level. We also want to push these updates to our partners
@TXTWRK and apply these updates as and when needed.
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Derby Community Hub zones
We want to feel like all Derby establishments can implement a Derby Community Hub zone.
We will soon have the option of being able to offer partnership, sponsorship and grant opportunities for communities through a new TXTWRK feature rolling out this May 2026.
Through this, we aim to seek financial grant packages which we can mediate and distribute to communities and people who want to play a long-term role in developing our city.
We will have to make an application to the government this Spring 2026, and we look forward to partnering and offering sponsorship opportunities too.
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Safe pathways, community themes and shop updates
Recently, we made updates on our TXTWRK channel outlining all safe pathways through to Derby Community Hub.
These can be seen on our Intel info reels, from the email addresses you can trust to our phone numbers.
We also made a new monthly community theme that people can latch on to, join in the conversation, and help us shape our experiences.
We are still in the steps of fully rolling this out across all of our social media networks.
Do not forget, we added new stock in store too:
@DerbyCommunityHub:Shop Now!
And it is just the start.
We plan on partnering with many Derby-based fashion organisations to make exclusive
@ImDerby merchandise.
We want volunteers to help take this to the next level.
The people are there.
The opportunity is here.
We have even covered a few ongoing events happening in Derby via TXTWRK. We wish we were more active over the last six months, but technology has not always favoured us.
We are working on making sure we have dedicated phones, laptops and other tools to do the job, as our founder has been struggling without a smartphone for a while now, with lack of support and that type of drill.
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Summary of progress
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Closing note
A genuine update from
@DerbyCommunityHub, written by
@ImSunnyClaire.
Next time, it could be your name right here if you join TXTWRK and apply to:
@DerbyCommunityHub!Community Tools: Checklists: Social Media Development!
It is open for everyone to play a role.
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