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by Mel Parks

Union Chapel: Collective Power Award

Union Chapel share their experiences of their community leaders project which was shortlisted for the Collective Power Award with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance’s (CHWA) annual awards which focus on collective power (partnership and co-production), practitioner support and climate.

Case Study, Co-production, Collective Power, Community Based, Community Engagement, Leadership, Lived Experience, Participation, Social Action
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by Mel Parks

Yemeni Elders’ Heritage: Collective Power Award

This blog features National Museums Liverpool’s Connecting with Yemeni Elders’ Heritage project, which was inspired by a young man Abdul, from Liverpool’s Yemeni community, who wanted to support elders living with dementia through the House of Memories programme. Abdul connected and encouraged more than 40 Yemeni young people to support the development of a dual language (Arabic and English) heritage package within the My House of Memories app, to assist elders to capture and digitize their heritage stories and traditions to share with younger people.

Case Study, Children and Young People, Citizen-led Action, Co-design, Co-production, Collaboration, Collective Power, Community Based, Dementia, Digital, Older People
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by Mel Parks

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Stories From Covid Times

In autumn 2021, Dudley Council commissioned the Ideas Alliance to help them get a better understanding of how the pandemic had impacted on people’s lives, in order to inform priorities for the future. The brief included the use of storytelling and one requested outcome was a visual representation of the experiences of the people of Dudley. 

Alliance, Case Study, Co-production, Community Based, Community Development, Community Engagement, Coronavirus Crisis, Health, Participation, Storytelling
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by Robin Forrester

Three inspiring charities who have mastered digital storytelling

Storytelling is a powerful way of helping charity work. Robin Forrester looks at three charities who use storytelling to great effect.

Case Study, Digital, Storytelling
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by Azad Sharma

Fun Palaces: fostering culture and community

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…

Arts, Case Study, Citizen-led Action, Storytelling, Video
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Burcu Borysik, Mayday Trust