The Library of Things
Watch this short film about a library which enables community members to share useful everyday objects and ideas between themselves.
Interview with Kate Fitzhugh, Stockport Family
We talk with Kate Fitzhugh about Stockport Family, a fully integrated children’s services based on restorative practice.
Stockport Family
We look at how the Stockport Family programme transformed, integrated and a refocused a set of statutory services around empowerment.
To risk or not to risk (part 2)
How to make co-production work in communities by defining them as safe – not dangerous – places.
Interview with Sam Mason, Community Fundraiser, Certitude
Fundraiser Sam Mason tells us about launching Certitude’s campaign to fight social isolation.
Questions, questions…
“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask” A commissioner’s role is a curious one – we need to ask questions but we need to make sure we’re asking the right questions. It’s here that we can so easily falter. Traditional commissioning required me to start with: “What are the issues?” “What do […]
Report review: Head, hands and heart: asset-based approaches in health
This might be one of the longer reports that we have read, but it was well worth it and something that everyone trying to implement asset-based approaches should have in their library.
Interview with Mohamed Abdallah, Dunraven Secondary School
Mohamed Abdallah, Director of Student Engagement talks to us about embedding an asset based community development approach across a whole school.
Report review: Walking the Talk – Blurring the lines between work and home
We examine how asset based community-driven development can positively impact on the relationship between work and home.