What this document is
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at Local Community Hero in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
Standards
Sourcing, checking, bylines, dates and commercial links, set out so you can judge what you read on Local Community Hero.
Anyone can claim to be careful. This page sets out what careful means at Local Community Hero in enough detail that you can check whether we keep to it.
The writer starts by getting everything down, then goes back and marks anything they could not defend if pushed. Those marks are resolved one by one, against a source or from experience, and whatever cannot be resolved is deleted rather than softened. A second reader then goes looking only for false certainty.
A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.
The date you see is real. A tidy up of wording leaves it alone; only a change to what the piece recommends moves the modified date, along with a note saying so.
Yes, some outbound links pay. What they pay for is the hosting bill, not the wording of the assessment sitting next to them.
Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.
Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.
Ruth Gable, Community stories and profiles writer. Ruth has spent years documenting the work of volunteers, grassroots organisers and unsung local figures across the UK. She believes the most important stories are the ones happening on ordinary streets, and she writes to make sure they are not overlooked.
Lucas Ferrand, Volunteering and local action writer. Lucas writes about what it actually takes to get involved in your community, from first-time volunteering to running sustained local campaigns. He is interested in the practical side of civic life and the small decisions that lead to lasting change.
Beth Calloway, Guides and local inspiration writer. Beth covers the how-to side of community life: setting things up, keeping them going, and knowing when to hand over the reins. She draws on conversations with organisers across different kinds of communities and writes for people who want to act, not just read.
Corrections go to [email protected]. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.