by Guest | 22 Mar 2021 | Active Neighbours, Communities & Volunteering
“And getting out of your own comfort zone a bit … empathy more than sympathy was somebody else’s phrase … trying to help people out not just because they are like you or because they’ve been through what you’ve been through, but because they just need a bit of help. That to me is what citizenship and community are about.”
by Guest | 22 Mar 2021 | Active Neighbours, Communities & Volunteering
“As a charity on your own, you can’t cover everything. So what has been good with a lot of the response in terms of the pandemic has been the fact that charities and faith-based groups and other groups have got together rather than saying, ‘Oh we wanna do it all.’”
by David Robinson and Tony Clements | 21 Oct 2020 | Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships, Observatory Thinking, Relational Councils
In brief Continuing with the work on Developing the Framework for councils to support community action, David Robinson and Tony Clements invite you to share examples of changing council practices that ‘let people in’ and join the conversation about how...
by Leonie Shanks | 15 Oct 2020 | Active Neighbours Featured, Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships
Shift Researcher Leonie Shanks invites us to explore who the 10m community ‘volunteers’ were who stepped up to support their communities through Covid, and how we can maintain this energy and commitment going forwards.
by David Robinson | 10 Aug 2020 | Active Neighbours Featured, Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships, Observatory Thinking, Our thinking
Are there clues in the pandemic experience for the development of more community based, relationship centred social care? What would need to change and what support would it require? Here, David considers the implications, and the potential, for transforming the approach to social care.
by Tony Clements | 6 Jul 2020 | Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships, Observatory Thinking, Our thinking, Relational Councils
In brief In our report ‘The Moment We Noticed: Learning from 100 days of lockdown’, we invite you to join us in exploring how we might sustain the positives from the pandemic. This paper forms the backbone of our fourth invitation: to join us in developing...