The Chief Executive of Local Trust on how overcoming challenges in delivering improvements to shared community resources happens better when the conversation begins at the local shop or the school gate.
Tag: community
Experts by experience: it’s high time we all started listening
The Chief Executive of the Refugee Council on how unintentionally, but undeniably, they have marginalised grassroots refugee groups. Now they are trying to change this.
Faith, flourishing and fragility
Heather Buckingham, Director of Research and Policy at the Church Urban Fund, shares her thoughts on working to heal the divides in our society.
A letter from young people to English civil society
Dear English Civil Society: A day ago we didn’t know each other. We came into a room, full of honesty, vulnerability and a deep desire for change. We quickly realised we were all telling the same stories from different corners of the same country. We urgently need to tell those stories, we need you to …
Think people can’t have control over their neighbourhoods? Meet Community Land Trusts
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) ensure local people can continue living in their communities and enable them to play a leading role in shaping the places they call home.
Befriending in Mansfield – A new way to look at community
Over the past four months, people from across the local community have been coming together to create a Befriending Service for Mansfield.
Saving a library… it’s all about community
This library in Sunderland was slated for closure... till volunteers like this stepped in.
From litter to better
"Am I going to let the world go to rack and ruin or am I going to change things around me?" What is this residents association in Sunderland doing?
How are leading charities to “give people power”?
We believe that in the long run we cannot eliminate poverty and social injustice without challenging malevolent power structures.
What we can all learn from the Bedouin (and Scots environmentalists)
How do you tackle climate change in your backyard? How do you kickstart biodiversity in the deserts of Jordan? It turns out... it's all about relationships.