Is your gift video? then Apply by 13th May! Portland Inn Project Hanley

Featured Image: Portland Inn TV Logo Portland Inn Project is rooted in Hanley, Stoke on Trent but its artist partnership takes its reach across the world. Action research artists Anna Francis and Rebecca Davies combine the spirit of Cedric Price with a healing community practice that Cedric Robinson would have understood. Anna, Rebecca and the […]

Remember Covid queues? How times have changed!

Featured Image: Getty Images BBC article about Covid Queues 3rd June 2021 St Georges Medical Practice Musters Road West Bridgford completed seven hundred covid vaccinations on Saturday morning (27th April 2024) for immuno compromised patients and over 75s. I’m on the patient participation group and worked with Claire Bicknell who chairs our group (with Malcolm […]

Interest In a community: Hanley, Stoke on Trent

Featured Image: Beautiful graphic of the day to day life of Portland Inn by Artist Rebecca Davies Below: Portland Inn working week: creating the potential for a micro economy with ceramics, furniture and architecture workshops….hooray! The Portland Inn Project, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire is creating an artist and community environment where people and economic opportunity are part […]

CLean Air for southall + hayes= health equity

The idea at the heart of the Urban Health Council Community Health Impact course is to raise a moral highground of reciprocity and accountability in all kinds of planning and service delivery so that everyday people across society can help each other improve the quality of their lives. The intention is to distribute knowledge, research […]

Urban Health Council + Centric Lab

I’ve just completed the most amazing online course run by a really interesting and dynamic team of neuroscientists at Urban Health Council+Centric Lab The team put their learning, expertise, networks and research at the disposal of people like me who are interested, involved and engaged in a wide range of community change and development projects, […]

Local Amnesty Ambassador for Peace In West Bridgford: contact Saba If you want to get involved: Letter writing, baking, green events: you name it!

If we listen and act on the voices of children and young people, whether it’s about Online Safety, the world they want to see or in supporting them in our local neighbourhoods, I think we can reintroduce representation and democracy wherever we are. Whether it’s West Bridgford 2023 showing solidarity with Ukraine, Rushcliffe to stop […]

MTVH+Aaron Services Experience, skill+ Team Work: what a difference a day makes!

Featured Image: Aaron Services Gas fitter Jack Powles who fitted a replacement boiler EcoTEC sustain Above:EcoTEC Vaillant boiler that Jack and the Aaron team fitted in my maisonette before Christmas. Jack has gone from learning with his dad (who also works at Aaron) from the age of fourteen, to apprentice to his dad then working […]

Our 2024: Commit Govt to Consent to peace, represent neighbourhoods, build green jobs in cities: walk to work, reduce car pollution

In 2024 let’s commit our governments to consent to peace. Let’s have a government that represents neighbourhoods, builds green jobs in the cities, so many people can walk to work, let’s reduce car pollution (UN emissions day is 26th Jan 2024) and in every organisation let’s use tech to reduce excessive bureaucracy and unnecessary rules […]

Considering Levelling Up? Try MTVH’s Social value

MTVH’s Social Value work with their larger contractors such as Pinnacle and Aaron Services is re-engineering the potential of a local levelling up because it’s building relationship and capacity. It’s all about the people….do you wonder sometimes how your organisation, or business can a) get to know and understand better the people who work with […]

Skills? Here’s a few we grew over a lifetime: Cheers, Michael: Kevin and Shaun

What do we think as a country about repairs? We know we’re a damp, draughty country: and in 2023 we now have levelling up (and Michael Gove) Levelling up minister Michael Gove currently looking for a way to make things right with the environment What we also need is a re imagination of the relationship […]