Research Assistant, Hannah Rich, explores how social innovation can be transformative for rural areas.
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Ideas, as well as people, now move more freely. We have put new models, drawn from other classes and other parts of the world, before the local people, creating new aspirations and new ideas.Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
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The value of support for community organisations
James Noble, Deputy Head of Measurement and Evaluation at NPC and co-author of the Communities Can final evaluation report, reflects on some of the key challenges the programme had to overcome.
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Bringing you some highlights from across the three areas of our work; social innovation and investment, work with communities and research.
Find out more#YFWeekly
Bringing you some highlights from across the three areas of our work; social innovation and investment, work with communities and research.
Find out moreAmplify Cymru: breaking down the barriers to understanding what a community thinks and feels
Andy Dunbobbin, Community Research for Connah’s Quay on the Amplify Cymru programme gives his reflections on what the programme has meant for him, following the launch of our Valuing Place report last week.
Find out moreAmplify Cymru: Local People Changing Their Places
“If we change the story we tell ourselves then it leaves everything open to possibilities.”
Find out moreCommunity led innovation in divided societies
Community led innovation has experienced a massive growth in the past year. SIC reflects this in the community led innovation network – an entire group of people dedicated to developing and disseminating community led innovation tools, methods and ideas. Monica Nagore and Lucy Cui are coordinating the community led innovation network on behalf of the... Find out more
Community cohesion requires us all to give and take
Nat Defriend, our Director of Communities and Places, provides some thoughts on Louise Casey's review into opportunity and integration released today.
Find out more‘The forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again.’
One of our researchers Hannah Rich discusses Trump, Brexit and how we have to start listening to people in communities and supporting them to lead change.
Find out moreShifting the Dial on Inequality (Click on Wales)
CEO, Baroness Glenys Thornton, outlines our new community initiative to tackle inequality in Wales.
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