Communities produce safety; Police deal with crime. (A Singapore Story)
July 27, 2018
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What started out as a desire for his son to play safely in the void deck became a neighborhood’s desire to be safe and...
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Yorkshire Sport Foundation – Active Burngreave
Following on from last week’s blog (Sport as an asset for Community Building) about the community building potential of sports activities, this week we...
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Our 13 staging posts in Learning and Development – part 1
With this first blog of 2017, we are feeling feistier and more determined than ever to contribute to the discovery and enlargement of free...
Read MoreThe politics of community & local democracy
Kirklees Democracy Commission invited me to give evidence on what happens when local democracy works as it should. We explored a range of issues...
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Taking a Strengths Based Approach with Young People. Part 2: Building Walls or Building Bridges
In the second part of this series of two blogs, we want to get practical. We’d like to speak about what bridge building into...
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Taking a Strengths-based Approach to Young People: Moving from ‘at risk’ to ‘at promise’. Part 1
When I read British tabloids their messaging around young people is unmistakable, young people: CAUSE PROBLEMS. HAVE PROBLEMS. ARE PROBLEMS. This is not peculiar to...
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They don’t make young people like they used to – Really?!
This blog is part of a series of stories and observations from time spent in the Eastern Cape of South Africa at the end...
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Rwanda: stories of community action
This blog is a compilation of stories shared by Rachel Mahuku, Education Sector Program Manager at The Wellspring Foundation for Education. How The Wellspring Foundation embarked on...
Read MoreCommunity Building and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I'm afraid at any given time I flit from one book to another and between several from one week to the next, and typically...
Read MoreBring our children back to where they belong: the centre of our communities
"Some people think children are just there to grow into adults, but they're actually very important. Maybe adults should listen more to children's ideas...
Read MoreLet the children play!
When we assume that police keep us safe and accordingly we completely hand authority for the production of our safety - at neighbourhood level...
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