Managing Director, Bridges for Communities, supporting people to live well together
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If you’re in Bristol (or interested in supporting work here) and want to chat about👇, give me a shout. We’ll be putting in a bid and exploring partnerships over the next few weeks.
“And if loneliness is best treated by repairing the tears in the social fabric, then that work might be one of the most powerful tools we have for resisting the far right.”
Good read👇
Wow! I am not a natural bridge builder but I loved hearing these two experts reflecting on doing this work in such polarised times. They wrestled with compassion and complicity and drew lessons from slavery, aprathied, nazi Germany, and pro-life. Can't explain how good it is - just listen!
Essential listening for community bridge builders: Mónica Guzmán’s podcast, A Braver Way, is back after a long break and this is a cracking episode.
Big questions tackled: when the world is *wave hands chaotically* how do we know what’s ours to do about it? When does humanising become enabling?
It's time to... Care About Air!
Hand-painted mural on North Street, Bristol UK.. to support the Clean Air for Kids campaign.
Wrote a short essay about something that happens more than you might expect. medium.com/@nbrody_5108...
🏛️ 🤔 What if one of the most important democratic reforms of the next decade is a better way for parliaments to work? Our new report explores options for embedding mini-publics within legislatures.
📘 Report 👉 carnegieuk.org/publication/...
📅 Webinar 23 June 👉 carnegieuk-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🚨 Last chance to sign up!
Tomorrow, 1-2pm, join us, @nationwidefdtn.bsky.social and Frameworks UK for a webinar on how to talk about homes and immigration.
We'll share ways to frame your comms to get the changes needed to improve our housing system.
Don't miss out!
Register here: bit.ly/4vgiiyV
Thinking of getting this framed:
“You can’t do the difficult things that need to be done unless people trust you.”
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Stephen Frost
Here’s the story behind @mayorhelengodwin.bsky.social’s decision to provide free bus travel for children during school holidays.
It starts with 12yr olds asking:
“How can children grow up and enjoy their cities if they can’t get around them? And is it fair that some children can’t do this at all?”
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Angela Francis
Ruth Brooker
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Nick Brody
Citizen Participation
Stephen Frost
With political tensions at a new peak, the pressure to take a stand — or keep the peace — can be intense. But how do you know the difference between the move that feels right and the one that is right...
Essential listening for community bridge builders: Mónica Guzmán’s podcast, A Braver Way, is back after a long break and this is a cracking episode.
Big questions tackled: when the world is *wave hands chaotically* how do we know what’s ours to do about it? When does humanising become enabling?
Let me describe a surprisingly semi-regular occurrence for scholars who study communication and technology. You’re at school pickup or…
With political tensions at a new peak, the pressure to take a stand — or keep the peace — can be intense. But how do you know the difference between the move that feels right and the one that is right...
Pleased to see this initiative coming out of MHCLG. We know that democracy is built and maintained in our communities.
Last year in our Closing the Void research, we called for a Democratic Trust Fund.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
“Far right groups prey on it”: Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness
The Guardian
Nick Plumb
Over the coming weeks, Demos will publish follow up essays exploring each of these four areas and setting out a practical agenda for democratic renewal.
🖊️ Read more from Polly in this @theguardian.com op-ed published today. ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Demos
A decade after The Lonely City was first published, the writer reflects on what’s changed – and how the feelings that drove them to write their bestseller are key to understanding our turbulent politics
There are ways to address the lack of faith. And unless Starmer, Burnham or Streeting do that, the issue of who is PM is moot, says Polly Curtis of Demos
