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INVITATION: Join our 2 year plan for a 20 year vision to move relationships from the margins to the mainstream
In brief It’s been a while (almost 18 months!) since we first shared our application to the Lottery’s Bringing People Together Fund to help strengthen and grow the field of relationship-centred practice. We're delighted to say that our application was successful and...

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...
Recent posts
Sustaining the care: Learning from the Warm Hubs experience
What can we learn from the Warm Hubs experience about how to create ‘relational spaces’? And how can this learning, combined with the learning from...
How to care for Warm Welcome Volunteers: A guided reflection
In brief In this blog, originally written for the Warm Welcome Network, we review what we learnt about community responses to the pandemic to ask...
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...
Sharing power through relationships
In brief How can we grow professional relationships that share power? In this audio clip, facilitator and social cohesion specialist Emily Danby...
The Good Life: Book Club
On 28th March 2023, a group of us came together for The Relationships Project’s first ever Book Club. Hosted by the wonderful Christine Frazer from...
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...
Our dreams for a Centre in Community Participation and Connectedness
In brief The UKRI recently published a call for a new world-leading Centre in Community Participation and Connectedness. Bringing together...
Relational Councils and the Cost of Living Crisis
The Relational Councils Network gathered on 30/1/23 to talk about the cost-of-living crisis and relational responses. Partners from the council and...
Welcoming The Relationships Collective
Introducing The Relationships Collective The Relationships Collective is a group of 9 individuals who together represent just some of the...
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