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Article: 06.06.23 The Path to Community It's Our Community in Sheffield explored how to reform health and social care from the grassroots.
Paper: 04.05.23 Inclusion of Disabled Refugees in Spain A report evaluating the inclusion of disabled refugees, focusing on education, housing and employment.
Story: 18.04.23 Arty Chats: Cultivating Community at The Forge Creating art is a great way to open up conversations and help people connect.
Article: 20.03.23 The Social Role of Friend Rules that restrict friendship between staff and people with disabilities are harmful and irrational.
Paper: 04.03.23 Sheffield Makes Civil Society Sheffield has a vibrant civil society but its full potential is not yet realised.
Reviews: 03.03.23 Active Hope An inspiring book to help us face the mess we're in with resilience, creativity and action.
Reviews: 28.02.23 Rethinking Boethius This ancient text reveals a lost approach to economics thinking that we need to rediscover.
Story: 09.02.23 Precious Plastic East Create Community Connection Helping people to recycle plastics has been a pathway to growing community.
Story: 14.01.23 Public Speaking Tips Public Speaking is a fear many people have in common, Glyn Butcher loves it and shares his approach.
Article: 10.01.23 Democracy Through the Looking Glass Democracy should start in our communities, our streets and our neighbourhoods.
Story: 30.09.22 Growing Community Power through Community poo Instead of focusing on a problem as a problem convert it into an opportunity for community.
Paper: 28.09.22 Un Nuevo Campo Social Necesitamos cultivar un nuevo campo social: we need to cultivate a new social field.
Article: 02.08.22 30 Years on Citizenship This article and film reviews the work of Simon Duffy on the topic of citizenship.
Film: 29.07.22 A Conversation about Polis with Crowd Wisdom Project A Conversation about Polis with Crowd Wisdom Project
Paper: 25.07.22 European Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation Good practice guide on the transition from Institutional to Community-based Care.
Paper: 20.07.22 Lived Citizenship for Persons in Vulnerable Life Situations This Open Access book brings together a variety of articles on citizenship for people with multiple impairments.
Story: 28.06.22 Jason's Story What do we hope for our children and could Yorkshire take back control of its own destiny?
Webinar: 27.06.22 Towards a Citizenship Model of Support Ideas for developing a new model of support in Catalonia.
Article: 24.06.22 Self-Directed Support and the Future Simon Duffy considers some of the emerging trends and how SDS can help us tackle future problems.
Article: 24.06.22 Self-Directed Support and Citizenship Simon Duffy argues that self-directed support is a tool for enhancing our citizenship.
Article: 23.06.22 My Mental Health Glyn explains how he manages the voices he hears and how, with help from his peers, he's turned his life around.
Paper: 23.05.22 Citizens Rising The Relationships Project shares the stories and experiences of young people in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Slide: 31.03.22 Is Citizenship Our Business? Avivo, pioneers in self-direction in Australia, are transforming the organisation to support citizenship at work.
Article: 16.02.22 Electric Cars, Sharing and Decarbonising Further measures on car use must be taken now in order to meet the UK’s overall net zero emission target by 2030.
Webinar: 15.02.22 The Portland Inn Project The Portland Inn Project CIC is a creative arts project for a community in Stoke On Trent.
Article: 24.01.22 On Social Prescribing Social prescribing can become used in ways that are insensitive to what people really need.
Paper: 24.01.22 Citizen Hubs A structure to grow power in local neighbourhoods in partnership with formal civic structures.
Webinar: 08.11.21 Launch of Power and Connection The first book dedicated to exploring Local Area Coordination and integrating more than 30 years of research.
Webinar: 08.11.21 Volunteering and Inclusion Les Papillons de Blancs Lille share how people with intellectual disabilities can be included in their communities…
Article: 12.10.21 Transforming Communities Communities must be empowered to act for themselves and in partnership with public services and government.
Film: 16.09.21 Restoring Shropshire's Verges The verges along our roads can be beautiful havens for wildlife and biodiversity if we change how we take care of them
Article: 14.09.21 Flourishing Neighbourhoods It's misleading to describe communities as 'left behind', we need to think how we will grow Neighbourhood Democracy.
Article: 01.09.21 Action for Responsible Management of Our Rivers ARMOUR, the remarkable story of saving rivers and building community across South Africa.
Paper: 20.07.21 What Can We Do With Those Families? Too often families are treated disrespectfully, even by those seeking to advance inclusion or person-centred work.
Webinar: 20.07.21 Sharing Stories to Cultivate Democracy Guest hosts Paul Wright and Selva Mustafa share stories of connection and community in Birmingham and Bury.
Article: 19.07.21 Our Care Home in Our Community We have lost sight of the true meaning of care and care homes are big business, cut off from our communities.
Paper: 14.07.21 Growing Peer Support A report on peer-led crisis support in mental health services focusing on the work of PFG Doncaster.
Reviews: 17.06.21 Out of the Ordinary Marc Stears proposes that the values and visions of ordinary people carry within them the possibility of radical…
Webinar: 08.06.21 Neighbourhood Democracy and Food The Neighbourhood Democracy Movement (NDM) hosted this webinar with 4 invited guests to explore the relationship…
Reviews: 04.06.21 Those Who Can, Teach This book is an eloquent testimony to the importance of investing in quality education to enrich the futures of all…
Article: 25.05.21 An Ode to the Citizen Spirit of Sheffield Sheffield has proud history of combining diverse peoples and communities into a greater whole, with a commitment to…
Reviews: 24.05.21 Paint Your Town Red David Towell reviews a new book describing the realities of the Preston model.
Article: 14.05.21 Improve Health by Growing Community Our health is damaged by isolation, inequality and powerlessness, so we must reconnect people by conscious community…
Article: 12.05.21 Disability Activism for the Environment Disabled people can be champions for community and environmental change and active citizenship brings personal…
Webinar: 05.05.21 Organising for Neighbourhood Democracy Rachel Payling, Wendy Lowder and Annabelle Macfadyen joined Angela Fell of the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement.
Article: 08.04.21 Energy Impairment and Social Care Many people with energy limiting impairments and chronic illness are not getting social care.
Reviews: 12.02.21 The Lonely Century This new and challenging book by Noreena Hertz outlines the shape of a transformative programme to rebuild community.
Article: 14.01.21 The Ideal of Citizenship Simon Duffy gave this talk to the LAC Network and argues that citizenship is the ideal the world needs today.
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