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Podcast #28: Acquiring “a profound sense of place” – catching up with Hope St Mellons

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Back in June for episode #25 Russell caught up with Helen Griffiths and David Clague from St Mellons in east Cardiff to explore how they we adapting to life under the lockdown and how they were adapting their community development activity to address challenges that had emerged.

Russell and Helen – who works with Hope St Mellons – kept in touch and caught up again to have a socially-distant chat in the garden of their community house to see what had happened in the intervening period.

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Introducing…The Community Development Podcast

So, here it is: The Community Development Podcast. A podcast dedicated to Community Development practice; to sharing its learning; connecting its practitioners; and promoting its value. With a background in Community Development in Wales, primarily in...

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Podcast #27: Small Is Beautiful – storytelling & knowledge in social care with Nick Andrews

Nick Andrews from the Wales School for Social Care Research at Swansea University, joins the podcast for the first time to discuss his work to bring research and practice together in social care systems.

Nick is a disciple of the Most Significant Change methodology that emphasises the value of storytelling and importance of giving people voice about what matters to them. It’s a methodology that is just as applicable, I believe, to community development.