Active Neighbours – Dhanmeet
āAs a charity on your own, you canāt 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, āOh we wanna do it all.āā
Loving the Stranger in the Time of Coronavirus: The Story of HostNation
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, Anthony Berman gives a personal account of the befriending charity, HostNation, before and after COVID-19, and the benefits it has brought to refugees and asylum seekers and their befrienders. Anthony Berman Anthony is on the...
Building connections to tackle our cultural isolation
Isabella McDowell In this blog Isabella McDonnell shares her thoughts on how deepening our understanding of home, identity and belonging can help our relationships to flourish.Ā IsabellaĀ is a dispute resolution paralegal and future polyglot, exploring the...
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 pursuit of a more relationship-centred world, that we canāt achieve alone. Here, we share some of the many themes that...
‘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 most complex reputations can live good lives when attention is paid to building relationship networks and a sense of...
Active Neighbours – Nick
āI saw that there was an NHS Responder app. I saw that, and […] I just wanted to get involved and kind of help out and do what I could – because I saw the NHS and all the lengths that everyone was going to […] And I saw quite a few community efforts on Facebook and I thought it was something I could do to help out with.ā
Active Neighbours – Khan
āWith all the restrictions in place, there was a lot of questions about how much I could do or how much was normal to do. I didnāt want to put too much stress on myself but I wanted to help out as much as I could. I was brought up in a household where I was expected to do all the housework, the DIY, preparing meals. That was considered normal for me but with some individuals, depending on what their household is like, what is normal is different; I wanted to do more and more but I didnāt want to ask and they didn’t ask.ā
Connecting to Connected: Focusing on relationships in the age of Coronavirus
Dr. Nick Barnes Nick works as a Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as a Cognitive Analytic Therapist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. In this blog, Nick discusses the fundamental role that relationships will play in...
