In the fragmented world of community action, one of the greatest challenges we face is alignment. Not of values — most grassroots organisations and good causes care deeply — but of tools, language, and reward structures. Too often, groups doing incredible work in their local area are unintentionally siloed by the very systems that are supposed to support them.
This is where the Stoke Model steps in — not as a fix-all, but as a framework for catenation. If that’s a new word to you, it simply means: linking things together in a chain.
At its core, the Stoke Model is an experiment in economic and digital reconfiguration — a way of rewiring how communities work together, and how value flows between people, causes, and places.
Here’s how it enables community catenation, and why that matters now more than ever.