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Latest Newsletter – Tackling the hard stuff

Community Catalysts are pleased to bring you our latest newsletter. As usual we’ve been very busy. We continue to strive to see every life and community transformed, and we know that in order to do that we have to painstakingly …

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Ensuring quality without strangling innovation

The Coalition government is committed to devolving power from central and local government to communities and individuals. Many of the White Papers, Bills, laws and strategies that have been published in the year or so since this government came into …

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Glastonbury: Music, mud and a strange sense of belonging

It was 1971 when I was last in Glastonbury – a muddy field, a few thousand hippy music fans and Hawkwind headlining. I spent the next forty years saying that I must go back – but it wasn’t until this …

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Buried in controversy: Great insights from Rowan Williams on sustainable community:

Rowan Williams rattled just a few cages this week with his article in the New Statesman. The main thrust of his article was of course the lack of a democratic mandate for some of the radical policies being pursued by …

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Oxford Jam

Community Catalysts’ Lorna Reid will be attending the session ‘Can social entrepreneurs regenerate disadvantaged neighbourhoods?’ at Oxford Jam on Thursday 31st March. Oxford Jam is a three-day event run by UnLtd that creates a space for the nurturing of social economy and …

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