This article is a reflection on the notion of curriculum based on the work of the Community Education Programme. It emerges from on-going thinking within the CEP about our work and is an attempt to surface and investigate how some of our assumptions about curriculum making have translated in the messy business of developing a non-formal community education programme. We start by providing a description of our ideas about participatory curriculum making and outline in broad strokes the process we are following to develop our programme. We put forward initial ideas to consider that form part of our ‘working theory’ of participatory curriculum making and discuss in some detail how this has taken form in practice. We conclude by stating the foundational concepts embedded in our work and our hopes for the future of a community created curriculum.