In this guest blog experienced charity worker Bex Clarkson advocates for radical change and outlines the remedies she sees, from looking at the money, recognising resistance and not just swapping out the CEO.
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A story about what can be achieved in a crisis when your way of working is already, and always, driven by listening, building trust and collaboration from Winning Hearts & Minds programme, Manchester.
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Paul Hine, Director at Made by Mortals explains how they've adapted during Covid-19 with innovative ways of working to keep helping people use their creativity to take an active role in society and bring about change.
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A very open and honest guest blog reflecting on the response to the Covid outbreak, challenging our definitions of vulnerability and asking questions about our willingness to engage with people.
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A sobering thought piece by experienced public sector worker Christina Ashworth on how we need to deliberately and mindfully choose to be more radical and face up to past tokenistic consultation and citizen involvement that can do more harm than good.
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After thirty years experience working in the charitable sector, Covid-19 has made Bex Clarkson question whether the charity model is working. She wants us to use this moment to do more than tinker around the edges.
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Are you feeling stuck right now? Life coach Jennie Sanderson describes how after grieving a much needed cancelled holiday, she made small tweaks to shift her perspective to a more hopeful one - and you can too.
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Ametrine is a middle-aged autistic woman who struggles with living independently at the best of times. Here she writes about her experiences of lockdown.
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Sarah Davis and Emma Qunital from Macmillan's London Cancer Community share their story of starting a project to support people whose sex lives have been affected by cancer or treatment and how lockdown has affected their plans.
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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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Based on the experience of caring for her mum, Sally, the National Co-production Advisory Group Chair, wants us to stop and think about what we're measuring and reporting - especially now when people are separated from their loved ones.
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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.
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