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) […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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6 September 2019

Embracing Ageing

A whole community response to a whole community issue We all age Sadly, despite this positive and inevitable reality, across the […]

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3 September 2019

Shining light into the fog of negativity

People ‘doing it for themselves’ report and stories launched We work in a bit of a bubble – the world […]

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16 August 2019

What *really* makes good care?

An important debate is taking place about how to ensure that people who need care and support get that help […]

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17 July 2019

It’s Time for Local Area Coordination

A year ago Community Catalysts was privileged to take over responsibility for the Local Area Coordination Network and since then our […]

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4 July 2019

Co-production – an essential strand of Local Area Coordination

In this blog for co-production week, I wanted to explore how Local Area Coordination is a great way to drive […]

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