One Direction Social Mobility
January 6, 2015
Social mobility policy needs to tackle endemic disadvantages of class and geography rather than just attempt to shift a few people into a social class with better life chances.
Resources: Communities
The Resources Library provides all kinds of interesting small articles, training and learning tools, research papers and ‘think-pieces’ plus other materials that are all free to use (for non-commercial purposes).
Practicing Public Participation guide paper
December 2, 2014
This is one of the several short papers – ‘Empowerment Tools’ – recently refreshed all of which are listed and linked below. Recently I used these with clients in East London. Empowering people, groups and communities works at many levels and it is important to be dialogue competent – engaging people appropriately in co-developing human services or whatever activity
More Love than Money Changing Hands
October 24, 2014
Social networks are powerful systems of communication and change and operate above the level of social media.
Leading well with the LME Model ™
April 9, 2014
What have the mighty Spanish Mondragon Corporation, German banks and the Emmaus movement got in common?
Funding tips for general use and particularly the Big Lottery Fund
April 5, 2014
As funding gets tougher in the world do look at Big Lottery funding. It is relatively easier to get an Awards for All grant if you meet the conditions – see links at the bottom of this post. This is a good source of funding for up to 10K for a project getting started, running something
Community House Evaluation Report
March 4, 2014
This evaluation report helped the client organisation (a housing association) achieve substantial funding. Take a look at how they did it.