by Alison Seabrooke | Apr 12, 2016 | Academic article
Devolution could be transformational if leaders have long-term vision We are constantly told that devolution is needed to give power back to local communities. While an admirable statement, it implies that communities are currently disengaged and unable to offect...
by Alison Seabrooke | Mar 31, 2016 | CDF
The decision was taken in the context of the evolution of community development and of CDF – from 1967 as a non-departmental public body and charity with offices in the nations, to an independent social enterprise in 2011, delivering a number of products and services...
by Alison Seabrooke | Mar 24, 2016 | LinkedIn
A month ago I published my post about CDF’s decision to close. This note is a follow-up to that news. Today we sent our last monthly external newsletter, detailing where CDF’s assets will go (funds, products, services, archives) to our 13,000 friends,...
by Alison Seabrooke | Feb 28, 2016 | LinkedIn
Congratulations on your closure! Brave’, ‘strategic’, ‘congratulations’, ‘thanks for the CDF legacy’ – not phrases you would expect when an organisation takes a decision to close. But these are the overwhelming sentiments I have received since announcing late December...
by Alison Seabrooke | Feb 11, 2016 | Guest blog
At the Bilbao Urban Innovation and Leadership Dialogues (BUILD) in 2014, I discovered that ‘equity’ in communities wasn’t what I understood the word to mean. In the international context it meant equality and inclusion, rather than a financial investment instrument....
