During lockdown Russell reached out to the Community Development fraternity across the world to invite it to share its experiences of supporting communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of this Community Development and Covid-19 series...
Russell is joined by Sharon Sweeney, from the University of Dundee’s student finance team who has recently finished a Masters degree, as part of which Sharon completed a dissertation on the role of social prescribing in...
In this podcast Russell chats via skype to Mark McFeeters, Lecturer on Ulster University’s Community Youth Work degree, and Lauren McAreavey, a third year undergraduate on the course. Among other things they discuss: how youth work...
Hot on the heels of the launch of the brand new Carnegie UK Trust report on Turnaround Towns in the UK, Russell is joined by Pippa Coutts, Carnegie’s Policy and Development Manager, to look at the...
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...
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...
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...
