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 […]
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 […]
1 October 2019
People doing it for themselves – the people behind the project – Graham
A couple of weeks ago Community Catalysts launched the People doing it for themselves report, easyread version together with an appendix of stories detailing the […]
19 September 2019
People doing it for themselves – the people behind the project – Stephanie
A couple of weeks ago Community Catalysts launched the People doing it for themselves report, easyread version together with an appendix of stories detailing the […]
10 September 2019
People doing it for themselves – the people behind the project – Alexander
Last week Community Catalysts launched the People doing it for themselves report , easyread version together with an appendix of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]