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Passionate about community, love where I live #Luton 🦩
You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”
“…to feel that our actions matter”
The Young Foundation@theyoungfdn.bsky.social · last yr.Our CEO @helengou.bsky.social reflects: "For big social challenges we need to see ourselves as part of the story for change... to feel that our actions matter. The #PeerActionCollective is an astonishing example of how that works in practice; connecting research to social action on the ground."
Happy 10th Anniversary @camerados-org.bsky.social Inspired by you we ‘Lullington Neighbours’ and our flamingo ‘Lully’ have been meeting every Saturday for a cuppa for over 3 years, last week over 80 people enjoyed our Summer Party. #Neighbours #Community #ABCD #SharingLives 🦩
Tomorrow we’re in London! 🚐 Find our #PublicLivingRoom at Butler’s Wharf by Tower Bridge 3–5pm. Come say hi 👋 #CameradosIs10
"For me, conversations about power are something I will take away and apply to my practice. The idea that power isn’t static; it ebbs and flows". Our Principal Practice Lead, Liin Nur, reflects on her first time at #StrongerThings 🌟
Celebrating Community Power: Stronger Things 2025 - New Local
What do you get when you combine collective expertise, healthy debate, and optimism? You get Stronger Things 2025, of course!
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‘We are Lullington Neighbours’ Summer Fun 🦩🎶🍰❤️ Food, laughter, a cake competition, a ‘toss the bean bag competition’ all accompanied by a good dollop of #CommunitySpirit
Words get bandied about in policy terms. Concepts get tightly defined in theory. Such as compassion, collaboration, care... Yet we risk these fine words, concepts, and values becoming meaningless if we don't truly live and breathe them in all their raw, messy, evolving selves.
🎉 We’ve made a 12-page special edition Zine to celebrate #Camerados 10th anniversary—& it’s in full colour! 🌈 Will you share it at your 10th anniversary bash next week? It’s out NOW! Find it in a #PublicLivingRoom or read here 👉 camerados.org/zine-edition... #CameradosIs10
“We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us” Let Jo’s message of kindness, respect, and togetherness ring out across the world today. Her words and spirit have never been more true, important or needed. With love to all who miss her. ♥️
Great to be out today cleaning up our alley. I love the chats with people as they walk by and appreciate that people don’t discard litter here anymore 💚
“And we invest in people and relationships, not pathways and procedures. Invest in our own relationships with people and families”. I LOVE your blogs Bryony, this is us intentionally sharing lives and it is incredible, there are so many stories to tell. www.facebook.com/groups/16339...
Bryony Shannon@bryonyshannon.bsky.social · last yr.‘Signposting’ is about process and efficiency, not people and efficacy. If we really want to ‘transform’ social care, we need to focus connection, not redirection. *New blog post* Words that make me go hmmm: signposting #LanguageMatters #RewritingSocialCare rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/06/07/s...
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Relationships Project@rshipsproject.bsky.social · last yr.Our relationships with one another are the foundations, the bedrock, on which all else is built. And yet UK society has consistently undervalued them, marginalising the evidence. David Robinson maps how we could set a different course and build a different future: Read the essay: bit.ly/3SyahnU
Imagine a world with #basicincome and free school meals for ALL where parents didn’t have to suffer the indignity of revealing their poverty. @ubilabnetwork.bsky.social @citizennetwork.bsky.social @carefull.bsky.social @scottsantens.com www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Free school meal rule change to make 500,000 more pupils eligible
Charities have broadly welcomed the plans, saying they hope it is a sign of more to come.
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“They fly under the radar because they don't show up in traditional volunteer networks. They’re not using volunteer management software, attending sector conferences, or engaging with volunteering as a "sector" at all”.
Reach Volunteering@reachvolunteering.org.uk · last yr.📢 Volunteering is thriving – Just not where you’ve been looking! 📢 It’s #VolunteersWeek - read the blog from our CEO, @Janet Thorne, challenging the perception that #volunteering is in decline: buff.ly/CGgSGQC 👇 Join the conversation 👇 Image: Daniela Yankova – @shadowschaser @fineacts
“I asked people what good work looks like in this century & what it would take to get there. I heard the same stories again & again.” @hilarycottam.bsky.social reminds us: narrow economic models of work no longer serve us. She offers a 21st century reimaging rooted in the ideas of everyday experts.
“We have become so structured by business as usual. Even the changes we make are working within the existing infrastructure and systems. @In #RadicalListening, you are trying to deal with the structural inequities that affect the communities we’re working with.” 📣 Karin Woodley @ #StrongerThings
Some years ago when I attended an introduction to ABCD @cormacrussell.bsky.social asked a question “What do you do where you live with your neighbours” This profoundly changed the way I thought about my role as a citizen. I can testify community-centred renewal happens over a cuppa, sharing lives.
New Local@wearenewlocal.bsky.social · last yr.Nurture Development’s @cormacrussell.bsky.social joins us with provocations around community-centred renewal. “What’s really exciting about what we’re seeing today in the UK is not just great micro practice on the ground, but a lining up of the micro and the macro”. #StrongerThings
This is so true, as a passionate citizen with deep commitment to community, I am always saddened when ‘the system’ does not listen or hear and has a knack of trying to make us blobs into squares! www.google.com/search?q=the...
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New Local@wearenewlocal.bsky.social · last yr.“You have got to build trust, slowly, carefully and sit deeply with people. Build a sustained and personal commitment to each other.” - Amanda Askham, @ealingcouncil.bsky.social #StrongerThings 👋🏼
Will be glued my phone all day reading posts. I had to give back my ticket as I am in Ireland with my new Grandson and family. Let the beautiful tapestry that is community be designed and stitched by us together, each thread woven with love ❤️
New Local@wearenewlocal.bsky.social · last yr.Here we go… @jesstud.bsky.social & @vibrantkatiekelly.bsky.social open #StrongerThings 2025 🌟 “We gather at a time when the outlines of change have been drawn, but now it’s time for us all to bring some colour to the canvas.”
Yes we can! I see this in action on a daily basis. #CommunityPower #StongerThings 💚
New Local@wearenewlocal.bsky.social · last yr.“The solutions to the seemingly intractable problems we face can be solved by the very communities we serve.” Ian Thomas, CBE, Town Clerk & Chief Executive of the City of London Corporation, sets the scene for today’s festival of community power #StrongerThings ⭐️
#volunteersweek2025 Over the years I have been blessed to cross paths with so many people giving their time, money & resources to clean up litter, marshal, make sandwiches, prepare packs for children in Covid & so much more. These wonderful people care, take action & fill our community with love
“The traditional model – which treats citizens as passive service recipients – has hit its capacity limits.” Following the publication of our new thinkpiece, #StrongerThings headline speaker @cormacrussell.bsky.social advocates for a realignment between institutions & communities.
Building thriving societies – it's easy as ABCD
In the face of growing social fragmentation and dwindling public resources, public services across the UK are grappling with unprecedented challenges. The traditional...
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Come along to Open House on the 12th of June 6:30pm - 7:30pm and let's shape the next 10 years of #Camerados. Register here👇https://ow.ly/n0lr50VZ7Yt Ten years on… have we changed the world?* *Let's be honest, not quite. But where do we go from here? contd...
Yes the cover is so fabulous 🩷 I have preordered, can’t wait to read it 🩵
Bryony Shannon@bryonyshannon.bsky.social · last yr.Rewriting Social Care THE BOOK now officially has a cover, and isn’t it fabulous!? It’s due to be published in September and is available to pre-order now.. more info including reviews at www.hachette.co.uk/titles/bryon... 🌼🩷
❤️☕️🧁❤️ The CIL team are awesome 🧡💚 #LoveLuton
Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk · last yr.Thank you to the wonderful CIL team Mostaque, Donna and Aimee for an evening of tea, community and raising £25,000 for an important charity, Hospice at Home Volunteers. To those who talk down Luton, this is the strength of our community. 💪🙌 #luton
