Hot on the heels of the launch of the brand new Carnegie UK Trust report on Turnaround Towns in the UK, Russell is joined by Pippa Coutts, Carnegie’s Policy and Development Manager, to look at the...

On 28 November I had the pleasure of dropping by the Oh What A Year! celebrations that Eden Communities Wales hosted at the award-winning social enterprise Big Moose Coffee Co. A range of projects were in...

In this podcast Russell is joined by East Belfast-based community development practitioner Jonny Currie. Jonny talks about how the political sclerosis that has seen the suspension of Northern Ireland’s devolved assembly and government executive has aff...

In this episode Russell is joined by Dr Rob Watson from Decentered Media (@DecenteredMedia) to look at, among other things, the role that community media plays in strengthening civil society and providing communities with a voice...

In this podcast Russell chats with Dave Smith from Heritage Quay, Huddersfield University’s archive service and considers community development in an ‘alternative’ context: sporting heritage and rugby league supporters Dave was involved in co-producing...

In this podcast, the first to draw on community development practice in the United States, Russell is joined via Skype by Moses S Dixon, a doctorate student at State University of New York in Binghamton, to...

In this podcast Russell is joined by Becky Harford who is one of the founders of Benthyg a ‘library of things’ in Rumney, Cardiff, possibly the first such library of things in Wales. Benthyg is Welsh...

In this podcast Russell is joined by Dave Horton from Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE) and Ceri Cunnington from Cwmni Bro Ffestiniog to discuss how their contrasting geography shapes approaches to community development…or not. Caerau and...

On Saturday 24 November a number of community media experts and practitioners convened in Leicester, England to discuss community media and why the social gain mission matters. Drs Rob Watson and Katie Moylan hosted the event which...

Having recently started working with community benefit society Indycube – who provide coworking spaces across Wales and beyond as well as offering a trade union for the self-employed – I was struck by a fascinating article in ...