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Bringing People Together: The story so far
In brief Back in July 2021, we shared our proposal to the National Lottery Community Fund’s Bringing People Together Fund. We were delighted to be awarded the funding and we now find ourselves one year into our two year plan towards a 20 year vision of a world built...
A Framework for Relationship-Centred Practice
We posted some ideas about Relationship Centred Practice (RCP) in this blog last November. Based on comments at the time, discussion at our Northumbria Convening and further work by the Relationships Collective we are now posting part two. Here, we share our initial...
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Bringing People Together: The story so far
In brief Back in July 2021, we shared our proposal to the National Lottery Community Fund’s Bringing People Together Fund. We were delighted to be...
Our dreams for 2024-2029
In brief In 2021 The Relationships Project was delighted to secure funding for a 2 year project to start to build towards a 20 year vision for a...
Sources of inspiration from across the field
Earlier in the Summer of 2023, we launched The Relationships Map: a growing directory of the many brilliant individuals and organisations putting...
Coventry, Captured: A Convening of Convenors
In brief In July 2023, the facilitators and conveners of 35 networks and coalitions gathered in Coventry to explore what we can achieve together, in...
‘Rewilding Care’: Could letting relationships flourish revolutionise social care?
In brief Bob Rhodes is the founder and President of LivesthroughFriends CIC, a social enterprise that demonstrates how those who have acquired the...
Relational Councils: Learning from crisis
Mutual aid was driven from the ground up but flourished with appropriate support from local councils. The UK response to refugees arriving from...
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Our dreams for 2024-2029
In brief In 2021 The Relationships Project was delighted to secure funding for a 2 year project to start to build towards a 20 year vision for a relationship-centred world (you might remember we shared our original application here). With 9 months to go until the end...
Whose relationships?
In brief The stories and ideas we consume shape our views, belief systems and our sense of what is possible. In this blog, Iona Lawrence offers some personal reflections on the shortcomings of her bookshelf and asks who else she should be reading and what needs to...
Plant trees and stir the soul
In brief In this blog, published at the start of 2023, David Robinson offers some personal reflections on working towards deep rooted, sustained social change. He draws out two urgent and important lessons from 40 years working in this space: plant trees and stir the...
The magic of finding my peers of relationship-centred practitioners
In brief On the 23rd November 2022, 80 relationship-centred practitioners came together at Northumbria University to unpack the how, what and why of relationship-centred practice. We shared some of our key takeaways in this letter and, here, Fabian Pfortmüller...
If not now, when?
In brief Ofgem confirmed the increase in the energy price cap on Friday August 26th 2022. We now know that, without substantial help, galloping fuel bills, combined with inflation, will push 45m Britons into fuel poverty by the end of the year. David Robinson...
Building connections to tackle our cultural isolation
In this blog Isabella McDonnell shares her thoughts on how deepening our understanding of home, identity and belonging can help our relationships to flourish. Isabella is a dispute resolution paralegal and future polyglot, exploring the intersection of psychology,...
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