This blog makes six key points: 1. The Welfare State is an important extension of our human community’s capacity to care; not a replacement for it....
Read MoreKirklees Democracy Commission invited me to give evidence on what happens when local democracy works as it should. We explored a range of issues...
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In understanding the democratic deficit, we need to spend less time trying to understand the outcome of elections and more time understanding why so...
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Communities that choose quality problems together, stay together, or at least build the power to choose either way. In personal and public life, our problems...
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The paradox of the marketplace is that even when we are not wanted as producers, we're needed as consumers. It promotes forms of production and...
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At a workshop recently, someone challenged the idea that you can't build anything useful from the top down, except for a hole, a ditch...
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This week we're delighted to be hosting a blog by Peter Lefort from the Eden Project. Peter's blog offers stories and impact of the...
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Great leaders, mostly lead by serving while walking backwards, cheering as they go. Because they understand: "It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility...
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What does it mean to help another human being, or an entire community? It’s a question we ask a lot at Nurture Development. There...
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First, let me say thanks to everyone who took time to participate in the conversation around last week’s blog. Building on that conversation, I’d...
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The paper ‘Neoliberalism with a community face?: A critical analysis of asset-based community development in Scotland (MacLeod, MA & Emejulu, A) 2014, is one...
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We're delighted to share a guest blog by an ABCD Practitioner, Alistair Mitchell. The blog shows a journey that hears local people into expression with...
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