Space is the Place: How community story-telling changed my relationship with my surroundings in 2019
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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Ten years of Playing Out: a personal reflection by Alice Ferguson
Playing Out are a social enterprise helping children play in outdoor public spaces. Alice Ferguson celebrates 10 years of work and achievements.
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The City is a Home: Building social infrastructure with rough sleepers
Throughout the past three years I’ve been working in a variety of health and social care settings as a consultant and community storyteller. I’ve met a lot of voluntary and public sector organisations working with people experiencing homelessness in the UK and felt inspired by their work. Recently, Sadiq Khan called for an increase in social housing in London to…
Blog, Case Study, Collaboration, Community Based, Homelessness, Place Based, Social Enterprise, Video
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Meetings and events – turning coproduction rhetoric into reality
Linda Hutchinson shares her experiences and a list of tips to help ensure that meetings and events positively contribute to your co-production practice.
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Guest blog – Co-production, our daily bread
In celebration of co-production week, Jane Salazar writes about her experiences and shares practical insights about how to do co-production differently.
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Guest blog – The real reasons we still don’t co-produce
Alex Fox OBE shares an article from his personal blog which exposes some of the barriers to building co-production into the public sector.
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Guest blog: Measures of wellbeing and impact – who decides?
Researchers Becky Seale and Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin share their perspectives on traditional measurement of community-based approaches to health and wellbeing.
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Guest blog: Health and care needs to become ‘people powered’
The future of health and care lies in collaboration, in new relationships and a broader approach to what supports us to be and remain healthy and well.
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My Year in Ideas
In this end of year blog, Azad Sharma reflects on a year of community storytelling, lessons, and inspirations.
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Lambeth Portuguese Wellbeing Partnership
South London GP Dr Vikesh Sharma reflects on bringing together local people, community organisations and health care staff to tackle health inequalities.
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My Best Mistake, by Kerry Bertram
We want to break the taboo around failure! Read Kerry's reflections on a mistake that led her to learn a new craft - the craft of community.
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Your language is revealing
If we are genuine about wanting to coproduce and work with people and patients at the centre of our thinking, then we must show this by choosing our words carefully.
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