Asset-Based Community Development is not an alternative to Services
Sadly ABCD rhetoric is being bandied about in some quarters as a quick fix solution, as is Time Banking, Local Area Coordination and anything...
Read MoreSadly ABCD rhetoric is being bandied about in some quarters as a quick fix solution, as is Time Banking, Local Area Coordination and anything...
Read MoreFriday 19th February we are leading a free OpenHouse discussion on Asset-Based Commissioning, in London. The following post explores the challenges that Commissioners and folk who...
Read MoreStorytelling is one of our most important community building tools Here's my two cents on how to tell one. ...
Read MoreJanuary When we lose the ability to care for our neighbours, we also inadvertently chart a course towards a future wherein that carelessness becomes our...
Read MoreIn this short clip I explain what Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) is. ...
Read MoreLast year we had the privilege of some fantastic company on the blogosphere. Thank you for all of your time spent reading; your comments...
Read MoreThroughout 2015 I have been most inspired by the huge reservoir of generosity and hospitality that I have encountered in the neighbourhoods I've worked...
Read MoreSince starting to compile this series of co-authored blogs the world has been hit by a number of major disasters. It is at these...
Read MoreIn Middlesbrough we are working with our friends, Martyn and Dot, at Hope North East. We facilitated a workshop with workers and volunteers in the summer and will be...
Read MorePart 2: Community Building & Community Organising are an essential prelude to co-production & Community Engagement. In the last 10 years we have seen a...
Read MoreWhat would you discover if you could make visible all the invisible assets (the local things that make our communities special and powerful: people,...
Read MorePart 1: How Community Organising & Community Building can work together: the two-fisted fight New forms of collective action are emerging in the UK. With...
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