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09/12/2019

Podcast #20: Oh What A Year! Celebrating 2019 with Eden Communities Wales

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On 28 November I had the pleasure of dropping by the Oh What A Year! celebrations that Eden Communities Wales hosted at the award-winning social enterprise Big Moose Coffee Co.

A range of projects were in attendance who had a diverse range of missions: sustainability and environmentalism, community cohesion, faith, food and – simply – sharing.

Sam and Lowri from Eden Communities Wales hosted the event, with the latter joining me for a chat. As did Tracy from EcoVision and Sally from Share Cardiff.

We were also treated to the amazing voice of Richard Parry from the Landscapes of Faith project in what was a lovely celebration of people power, collaboration and community.

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03/07/2017

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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25/11/2019

Community employability programmes – serving capital or communities?

I write this en route home to Cardiff from north Wales where I have spent the day with workers on a pair of parallel community-based employability programmes that operate in many Welsh communities: Communities For Work...

Agenda for the Behaviour change briefing event, Cardiff, September 2019

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25/09/2019

Co-production can’t happen in isolation. So less presenting it as if it does please

I attended an event in a sodden Cardiff yesterday hosted by the city’s Life Sciences Hub/Hwb Gwyddoniaethau Bywyd at which PR agency Claremont were outlining some of their work to around co-production and nudge theory to...

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20/06/2019

Podcast #19: Community Development in Northern Ireland with Jonny Currie

In this podcast Russell is joined by East Belfast-based community development practitioner Jonny Currie. Jonny talks about how the political sclerosis that has seen the suspension of Northern Ireland’s devolved assembly and government executive has affected...

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23/05/2019

Podcast #18: Community Media with Rob Watson

In this episode Russell is joined by Dr Rob Watson from Decentered Media (@DecenteredMedia) to look at, among other things, the role that community media plays in strengthening civil society and providing communities with a voice...

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10/04/2019

Podcast #17: Co-producing sporting heritage with communities of interest

In this podcast Russell chats with Dave Smith from Heritage Quay, Huddersfield University’s archive service and considers community development in an ‘alternative’ context: sporting heritage and rugby league supporters Dave was involved in co-producing the national...

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18/02/2019

Podcast #16: The role of Historically Black Colleges & Universities in revitalizing their host neighbourhoods with Moses S Dixon

In this podcast, the first to draw on community development practice in the United States, Russell is joined via Skype by Moses S Dixon, a doctorate student at State University of New York in Binghamton, to...