27 March 2020
Small Good Stuff achieves great things
Blog by Community Catalysts’ Angela Catley shared as a guest blog on the TLAP website Keeping our communities going is […]
20 March 2020
Happiness in a time of coronavirus
Today is the International Day of Happiness, which at first sight seems ironic when our world is facing such an […]
19 March 2020
Bright lights in a dark world
I’m one of those people with ‘underlying health conditions’ and writing this from my isolation room (aka our back bedroom) […]
21 February 2020
Pop-up living room proves a huge hit in Rochdale
New year, new ideas! Our Community Catalyst, Karen Williams, has been busy turning the idea of a pop-up community living […]
19 February 2020
FREE Webinar: Can personal budgets stimulate a diverse care market?
Councils have a legal duty to ‘shape’ a diverse market of quality care for the people it supports. Can citizens’ […]
13 February 2020
Good lives are about more than social care
The default approach to social care in many local authorities remains traditional models of “delivery”, and profit extracting ownership. These […]
29 January 2020
A new phase of People Doing it for Themselves
We are excited to announce that the second phase of our development project, People Doing it For Themselves, is now […]
8 January 2020
Come on, let’s get together
We’ve been supporting community enterprises to start and grow for 10 years and during that time we’ve got to know […]
11 December 2019
Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas from us Community Catalysts
Happy Birthday to us This year we reached our 10th birthday. 10 years since we took the plunge and established […]
18 October 2019
Emotive Moves and Motive Makers
It was a sunny August afternoon in 2017 when my daughter, who was studying photography at the time, asked me […]
1 October 2019
People doing it for themselves – the people behind the project – Graham
A couple of weeks ago Community Catalysts launched the People doing it for themselves report, easyread version together with an appendix of stories detailing the […]
25 September 2019
Communities doing it for themselves: our chapter in a new book published by Pavilion
A new book entitled Innovation and Change in Non-Profit Organisations published by Pavilion includes a chapter written by Sian, drawing […]