A much needed quieter week. Place-based systems change I am working on a project about how to fund and support place-based systems change, and this week I spoke with a couple of organisations that are actually doing it. During the conversations, I was struck by how people constantly evolve their understanding of the place they
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In this post, John explains how we group the work we do on place into five categories that help us understand different attitudes to change in society.
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These are late again. Once you break a habit of when you do something, it’s hard to get it back … Democracy There were a lot of local democracy discussions going on in Manchester this week, with a couple of conferences and gatherings. It gave me the opportunity to present some of the early ideas
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A late one this week (last week?), as my week ran through until Saturday. Coventry I was in Coventry twice this week with Grapevine, at both ‘ends’ of a project about social action. The first session was in the council offices, with an impressive range of senior staff, talking about how place-based social action in
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It feels like the year is back in full swing now and that it is definitely no longer acceptable to say, Happy New Year to people. Keeping things moving As well as having a couple of consultancy projects that I am heavily involved with, I also take on a project director role for some others.
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