Neighbourhood Democracy

People are at their best when they come together as citizens to debate, decide and act together in their own neighbourhoods.

Webinar: 29.08.21 Neighbourhoods: Refunction or Recreate? Susan Rodaway and Michael Hancock shared practical models for reshaping and democratising local government.
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.
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.
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: 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…
Webinar: 05.05.21 Organising for Neighbourhood Democracy Rachel Payling, Wendy Lowder and Annabelle Macfadyen joined Angela Fell of the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement.
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.
Reviews: 07.10.20 Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19 A review of Robin Hambleton's Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19 the sequel to Leading the Inclusive City.
Paper: 16.09.20 Exploring the Strength of Community The key to promoting wellbeing for all citizens lies in citizen action and neighbourhood democracy.
Webinar: 16.07.20 Two Neighbourhoods: Netherton & Springfield Angela Fell and friends explain how the neighbourhoods of Netherton and Springfield reacted to the COVID-19 crisis by…
Webinar: 03.07.20 Norwich City Council: Creating Space for Community Members of Norwich City Enabling Team and Adam Murray of the Old Library Wood community group share their experiences…
Webinar: 22.06.20 Exploring the Strength of Community Liz Leach Murphy and Sarah Holmes explore the factors that make for stronger and richer community life.
Webinar: 18.06.20 Neighbourhood Democracy: Building Community in Spain Plena Inclusión with a wide range of allies in Spain, have developed an exciting approach to building community.
Paper: 27.05.20 Closer to Home Amy-Grace Whillans-Welldrake reports on the progress of Greater Manchester devolution and explores the…
Article: 27.05.20 Re-Imagining Our Streets Lynne Friedli shares an inspiring idea to convert residential parking spaces into green spaces for fruit, vegetables…
Article: 02.04.20 The Upstream Response to COVID-19 Dr Simon Duffy sets out some key principles to guide local communities as they develop their response to the COVID-19…
Article: 24.05.19 Go Deep with Inclusion and Diversity Facilitators, community leaders, politicians, community builders and activists put their heads and hearts…
Project: 04.01.19 Closer to Home Exploring the scope for deeper devolution.
Paper: 26.10.18 4 Essential Elements of ABCD Process John McKnight and Cormac Russell describe what is distinctive about an asset-based development process in this…
Paper: 25.09.18 Careless Care When the state takes children into its care it has a responsibility to support them into adulthood and as they become…
Paper: 26.03.18 Reforming Social Care This report explains why integration between health and social care is not desirable, setting out a clear vision for…
Project: 04.01.18 Democracy in Sheffield Reforming the way power operates in local government.
Paper: 27.09.17 Heading Upstream Barnsley Council have been redistributing power and resources to local citizens, families and communities.
Article: 27.09.17 Food for Thought – community business The good people of Glasgow regularly pop into Spoon for a coffee, food and a catch up with friends but it’s so much…
Article: 02.08.16 Heading Upstream: Deinstitutionalisation & Public Service Reform Simon Duffy explores the challenge of moving solutions upstream and away from the institutionalised solutions into…
Article: 21.07.15 Localism: As If People Mattered Laird Ryan calls for localism to be brought back to the grassroots where it truly belongs.
Paper: 17.03.14 Imagining the Future: Citizenship In a report commissioned by IRISS, Simon Duffy explores the future of social services in Scotland.
Article: 02.07.12 Real Localism Argument for a profound shift in control towards local communities and the outline of a new strategy for local…
Paper: 07.08.11 Positively Local John Gillespie, with Susanne Hughes, describes how community development and improvement must begin by putting…
Paper: 12.04.11 Local Justice Clare Hyde argues that the current criminal justice system is failing communities by drawing resources into damaging…
Graphic: 01.01.11 Shift to Citizenship Model This image shows the fundamental shift in thinking required to reform public services within the welfare state - from a…
Graphic: 12.11.10 Commissioning for Innovation Commissioning should mean focusing on the real assets of community in order to shape innovative and appropriate…
Graphic: 10.09.10 Real Wealth Real Wealth is what it takes to build a good life. This is not just money - it is much broader.
Graphic: 01.08.10 Pull Economics Instead of pushing resources that we think are useful towards them Push Economics proposes that people are enabled to…
Paper: 09.04.10 Citizenship & Community This paper outlines the relationship between active citizenship and community development and its relationship to…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Citizenship Model This model describes how the citizen should be central to the design and delivery of public services.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Community Capacity This model enables us to maps four dimensions of community capacity. These community capacities support the…
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