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Only What Has an Outline

Shadow-Board Audits, Four Years of Acquittal Records, and the Composition of the Toolkit at 46 Community Workshops

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities codes 6,148 purchase lines from four years of one community-workshop association's acquittal returns against each site's own inventory control, and inventories the toolkit on site at all 46 workshops. At the 29 sites running a painted shadow board, 61.2 per cent of purchase lines refilled a vacant outline and 4.1 per cent introduced a tool type the board did not already carry, against 39.8 and 19.6 per cent at the 17 sites keeping a written list; board sites hold about three-quarters the number of distinct tool types at comparable membership and spend, while 268 outlines were painted over and recorded completeness rose from 91.3 to 97.9 per cent.

AuthorsRuna Adegoke, Verity Marris, Anneke Tolan
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch paper
FundingAnticipatory Capability Fund: Retiming the Oval's Sunscreen Restock From the Empty Bottle to the Forecast ($132,916)Anticipatory Capability Fund: Restocking a Council's Street Libraries Before the Shelf Stops Turning Over ($241,873)
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DOI10.5555/slop.zgk44a
Pages6
Cited by2 outputs
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_zgk44a,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Verity Marris and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Only What Has an Outline: Shadow-Board Audits, Four Years of Acquittal Records, and the Composition of the Toolkit at 46 Community Workshops},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.zgk44a},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-community-workshop-s-zgk44a/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}