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 […]
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 […]