Bob is the Founder/President of LivesthroughFriends - demonstrating and campaigning for the reinvention of social services, the reversal of the commodification of public services, and the restoration of a more communitarian approuch to life and how we care for each other with particular emphasis on how we support folk who have acquired challenging reputations.
In 1991 Bob founded TACT UK– building over 15 years a nation-wide organization that supported people with very challenging reputations to live in inclusive and contributing ways. He led its development until his semi-retirement (unrealized) in 2006. Along this journey he “woke up” to the limitations inherent in dependency upon professions and institutions and the need for services to integrate themselves within and contribute to the neighbourhoods in which they operate, ensuring that people enjoy reciprocal loving relationships and true belonging.
Bob strives to work at both the grassroots and strategic levels, in the UK and internationally, in respect of social inclusion and strengths-based social development and concurrently advises Governments and helps people with disabilities to self-direct; founds and grows organizations and helps people build personal relationship networks; researches and writes challenging social policy books and papers while crafting humorous or ironic verses about the absurdity of institutions and the professions to which he belongs; and assists people with very challenging reputations to refute their reputations and battle-worn professionals to rediscover both their empathy and their creativity.
