Blog Action Day – Poverty

I’ve seen poverty, but never experienced it.  Living in Bombay (as it was called back in 1985) the drive from the airport to downtown involved passing by shanty-towns and beggars with limbless babies pressing themselves against the window of the air-conditioned Mercedes as we stopped at the traffic lights.  We Read more…

YouCanDo Guides

Yesterday saw the launch of the YouCanDo Guides from The Scarman Trust at Westminster Central Hall.  The highlight of the day were the stories from six ordinary (or extraordinary) people who have helped change their communities.    The smooth running of the day was somewhat disrupted by one of the Read more…

Cllr2.0 – how do Councillors use the internet to engage?

As part of a Ministry of Justice funded Innovations Fund project, we’re involved in giving a presentation tomorrow to a group of Councillors at Norfolk County Council on the ways that are / could be used to engage with constituents via the internet. Here’s the long list I have at Read more…

How the Scarman Trust thing went

It was great! During the day there were stalls, lovely food and lots of performances, including African and Cuban dancing, performance poetry and storytelling and our Weakest Think. The African dancers made Shane get up and dance with them, which was worth working on a Saturday just to see. One Read more…

I laugh in the face of ‘going to the gym’ type resolutions…

…which almost never last past January. Instead I’ve got a new job, working full time for Gallomanor, which means changing nearly everything in my life, so who needs resolutions to create change? I’ve been freelancing for Gallomanor off and on for three years. My main job during that time has Read more…

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