Local author David Jones recorded a selection of neighbourly stories from Cwmbwrla, and produced a book alongside the Local Area Coordinator Emma and a group of diverse community members with extensive local knowledge.

In this video and blog, Nick Sinclair explores the link between Local Area Coordination and prevention. The video was recorded as part of the #ItsOurCommunity event last month which was hosted by The Festival of Debate, The Centre for Welfare Reform, Citizen Network, and the Yorkshire Socialist Health Association.

Nick Sinclair, Director of the Local Area Coordination Network, reflects on a recent webinar for the Local Government Association.

Nick recently had the pleasure of collaborating with a contingent of people from Swansea, giving an online presentation on how Local Area Coordination there had responded during Covid times, as well as our collective vision for its future across Wales.

In this blog, Nick Sinclair and David Robinson explore the concept of a ‘social covenant’ discussed in Danny Kruger’s recent report, ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, arguing it must be formed around values, trust, morality and relationships.

Nick Sinclair, Director of the Local Area Coordination Network, chats to Nick Plumb, Policy Officer at Locality, and Jill Greenfield, Director of Communities at Kirklees Council, about the Keep it Local Network and Local Area Coordination.

In a recent blog published by The MJ, Prof Donna Hall explores the idea that services only make sense when you connect them together, wrap them around individuals, families, and neighbourhoods, and co-create them with local people and grassroots organisations.

Blog piece from Tara Hughes exploring the reciprocal connections in the community made during lockdown, and how we can facilitate benefits to both the people who need help and the people offering to help.

In this fabulous blog written by a citizen of Southwick in Wiltshire, we hear how with the support and encouragement of people including Local Area Coordinator Gemma Novis, she was able to galvanise the energy of her neighbours to ensure no one had to go through this crisis alone.

Blog piece by Nick Sinclair, exploring how Local Area Coordinators have had to turn on a sixpence and support local government-led efforts to respond.

In our series entitled ‘it’s all about’ we will explore some moving and incredible stories from the past year of people who have moved closer to their vision of a good life and started making their contribution in their community. This piece looks at ‘having no pre-defined agenda’.

In our series entitled ‘it’s all about’ we will explore some moving and incredible stories from the past year of people who have moved closer to their vision of a good life and started making their contribution in their community. This piece looks at ‘taking back control’.