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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
23 December 2020
Valuable AND Vulnerable… coproduction and unexpected shifts
Our new project with a focus on the positive – working with people who were formally or informally shielded and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
18 November 2020
Local Area Coordination conference 2020
Hear unique perspectives on the 10 principles that guide Local Area Coordination and how they can help bring about positive […]
17 November 2020
Making a difference
Passionate people making a positive difference – creative ways to approach health and care We were pleased to see so […]
11 November 2020
Help us SHOUT ‘people are valuable not vulnerable’
Covid has challenged us individually and as a society. Here at Community Catalysts we know that many people, particularly those […]
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 […]
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 […]