29 January 2021

New grant launched for Small Good Stuff members!

Small Good Stuff is part of the wider Community Catalysts family and we’re all passionate about helping local people to […]

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28 January 2021

Local people helping other local people in Ryedale

We were commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) in 2019 to deliver an innovative project, nurturing new and existing […]

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27 January 2021

Embracing and thriving in the ‘new normal’

As we approached the end of 2020 it was clear that the global pandemic would unfortunately be seeing in the […]

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18 January 2021

The 10 Principles of Local Area Coordination – conference videos now available

At the end of 2020, a uniquely complex year for humankind, the Local Area Coordination Network wanted to reflect on […]

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14 January 2021

What’s in a day – does Covid offer a once in a generation chance to rethink day support?

For decades people with a learning disability have shouted loud and proud that they want what should be unremarkable from […]

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13 January 2021

An amazing journey in Thurrock- ending in a service award in 2020!

I first met Les Billingham back in 2014 when he was Assistant Director of Adult Social Care and Community Development […]

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5 January 2021

New Social Leaders – A unique leadership development opportunity and growing movement for change

A Covid Challenge As the pandemic unfolded our ‘social sector leaders’ (and by that we mean those managing and leading […]

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1 December 2020

Thinking back ….and planning ahead………..

It was nearly 12 years ago to the day when Angela Catley and I, with a colleague from Shared Lives […]

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30 November 2020

Strengthening local economies and creating choice

In our latest blog Sian Lockwood, Community Catalysts reflects on how, despite Covid, community enterprises have continued to flourish, strengthening […]

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19 November 2020

Podcast series: ‘Changing it up’ – Ep 4 with Rita Goodhead, Angela Gault and Natalie Scarlett

We’re following on our podcast series ‘Changing it up’ where hosts Nick Sinclair and Clenton Farquharson chat with people from […]

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3 November 2020

The Buzz – 6 months on and over 100 activities!

Back in May, at the start of the Covid lockdown, we launched The Buzz as a way to help support […]

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27 October 2020

The power of small

A few weeks ago, I saw this fascinating chart from Skills for Care and I have to say it blew […]

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