Jacklin-Jarvis, CarolRees, James2021-09-102021-09-102021-08-31Jacklin-Jarvis, C. and Rees, J. (2023) Fun, lifelong relationships and a safer community: understanding collective leadership practice in a grassroots association. Voluntary Sector Review, 13 (2), pp. 207-225. https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521X162612669651252040-805610.1332/204080521x16261266965125http://hdl.handle.net/2436/624332This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Bristol University Press in Voluntary Sector Review on 31/08/2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521X16261266965125 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.The relational processes and practices that create and sustain grassroots associations have received limited attention from researchers. This article addresses this gap, exploring collective leadership of grassroots associations through a ‘leadership-as-practice’ lens (Raelin, 2016a; 2016b). It adopts the concept of ‘bundles’ of leadership practice (Schatzki, 2005) to analyse data from a single ethnographic case study. Adopting this conceptual lens, we identify a set of ‘bundles’ of related practices – organising, engaging and accounting – that constitute the enduring reality of the grassroots association’s collective leadership.application/pdfencollective leadershipcommunity groupsgrassroots associationsleadershipJournal articleVoluntary Sector Review2021-09-09