16 April 2020
Letter to the Minister of State (Minister for Care): Including self-employed people delivering front-line care in the social care workforce
Sian Lockwood, Chief Executive of Community Catalysts, has sent the following letter to Rt. Hon. Helen Whately MP Minister of […]
14 April 2020
Covid-19, community and musings on the impact of strong foundations
Strange times indeed but here at Community Catalysts we find ourselves surprisingly busy, advising small enterprises offering support to people […]
9 April 2020
Supporting community micro-enterprises through Covid 19
Heather Maling tells us about her work in rural Powys, supporting community micro-enterprises in lockdown. #brightlightsinadarkworld “You never know how […]
6 April 2020
A day in the life…
Our Catalyst Anita who supports people to set up their own enterprises in Dorset tells us about a day in […]
1 April 2020
Life in self-isolation
Our Chief Executive, Sian Lockwood, is currently in week two of self-isolation and, in the first part of this video […]
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 […]
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 […]