As I write this I’m working from Selby. Selby is my hometown; my mum still lives here. I’m writing this on by-election day, and, as you may have heard, Selby…
20 Jul, 2023
Community
21 Oct, 2020
Change: It’s a piece of CAKE
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change. Miles Davis 'Nobody has all the answers but all of…
14 Oct, 2020
Responding, building and transforming collaboratively in Barking and Dagenham
The Covid-19 crisis has challenged everyone, not least local government. Many councils have struggled to cope with the fallout from the virus, while others, like Barking & Dagenham, have managed…
14 Jul, 2020
#BuildBackBetter: You know it makes sense, but how do you do it?
The article was originally published at Vulnerability 360. Throughout the lockdown, and now an extended lockdown, in our home city, Leicestershire cares staff have been working with a range of…
06 Jul, 2020
A national community support plan
Community resilience is a vital component of social and economic recovery. Communities themselves have risen to the occasion magnificently. But to enable them to sustain this high level of involvement…
11 May, 2020
Democracy and the Coronavirus
Is an alert civil society an effective antidote to the cynical manipulation that mars contemporary democracy? Those of us who have argued that it is will soon face a stiff…
20 Mar, 2020
Nine things I’ve noticed this week
The blog was originally published on Julia Unwin's personal website. We’ve known that a global pandemic would come for decades, and it’s been modelled and planned for time after time.…