by Iona Lawrence | 27 Jul 2021 | Featured blog, Field building featured, Our Plans, Our thinking, Our work
Before now… In the summer of 2020 I set out on an open-ended research journey exploring why relationships matter and whether people who put relationships at the heart of their work feel connected to others doing the same. I was lucky to collaborate with The...
by Iona Lawrence, Immy Robinson and David Robinson | 17 May 2021 | Featured blog, Field building featured, Our Plans, Our thinking, Our work featured 3
After a year of research into simple, ordinary, human relationships, Iona Lawrence shared her initial findings in Through Thick And Thin. In this report, she illuminated a set of shared concerns, identified through hundreds of conversations around the state of our...
by Immy Robinson | 12 Feb 2021 | Featured About, Our Plans, Our thinking
In this blog post, Immy reflects on our first Relationship Makers programme delivered in partnership with Power to Change. Bringing together a cohort of community businesses over the course of 8 weeks, we connected, reflected and provided one an other with some balm for the chaos that was 2020.
by Immy Robinson and Iona Lawrence | 9 Nov 2020 | Field building featured, Our Plans, Our thinking
In brief 6 weeks ago, we (Iona Lawrence and Immy Robinson) set out to explore whether a ‘field of relationships’ could, should, or does already exist. We’re still at the early stages of this exploration but have been lucky enough to pick the brains of some very...
by Iona Lawrence and Immy Robinson | 10 Sep 2020 | Field building featured, Our Plans, Our thinking, Our work
In brief In this blog, Iona Lawrence and Immy Robinson ask whether taking a field-building approach could be valuable to the ‘field of relationships’ and ask for your ideas and partnership as we set out on this inquiry. If you’re someone who puts relationships...
by Immy Robinson | 17 Aug 2020 | Our Plans, Our thinking, Our work
In brief We’ve partnered with Power to Change to support a cohort of community businesses to reflect on the power and potential of relationships and develop strategies for building successful businesses based on strong relationships. In this blog, we lay out our...