We learn about what a community group for anyone new to Barnsley has achieved, learnt and loved along the way as part of our Collective Power award showcase with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance.
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Read all about the best bits, learning and surprises from a programme of dementia-friendly, inclusive and interactive music and movement workshops for older people across Norfolk that has collaboration at it's heart.
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Ideas Alliances are working with St Helens Libraries to deliver an action research project that is investigating ‘What does a digital offer look like for St Helens?’. As part of this piece of work, we want to commission a creative digital arts project – inviting innovative ideas for how our increasingly digital society might affect the people of St Helens…
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Social change activist, poet and businessman Robert Punton's perspective of lockdown and the opportunities he sees. From no longer having to worry about travelling to meetings as a disabled man to new connections and grassroot movements.
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Whilst we take a pause in our #covidconsiderations blog series enjoy this found poem made up of lines from each blog published so far. It is a round up, a battle cry and captures the essence of this series full of reflection, hope and personal stories.
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We spent a lot of 2019 thinking about co-production in the arts and we want to begin 2020 with the same creativity at the front of our minds. Creativity in a community setting encourages togetherness and often the sharing of valuable skills to nurture arts and sciences at a grassroots level. We were delighted to find Fun Palaces, an organisation…
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Our 2019 review article explores how our relationship to space changed through various stories we've told and organisations we've met.
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Every One Every Day's festival shone a spotlight on their work which engages and connects communities through practical and fun activities.
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Project 49 provides innovative day services to adults with learning disabilities and associated needs with a focus on community inclusion.
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Stitched Up are a women-led, grassroots alternative fashion collective who share knowledge, build community, and help the environment by up-cycling clothes.
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We sat down with pionneering cultural producer Tony Cealy to hear about his community drama and radio projects which help people engage with social issues.
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Coney use interactive theatre, play, and adventure to engage communities in an exhange of knowledge that is fun and socially responsible.
Read article“The Hub acts as a glue bringing together people and organisations who are doing so much to positively disrupt their local systems.”
Burcu Borysik, Mayday Trust