by Alison Seabrooke | May 14, 2014 | CDF
I’m delighted to say that this week CDF is joining the Living Wage Foundation and hundreds of other Living Wage employers in celebrating Living Wage Week 2014. From 2 – 8 November employers and employees alike are sharing their experiences of paying and being paid the...
by Alison Seabrooke | Mar 31, 2014 | CDF, Guest blog
Why am I supporting Our Place? Most people know what will help them live their lives better in their communities. My route to working with communities, and then onto my role at CDF, was via taking my daughter to a toddler group in my local community. Then, as she...
by Alison Seabrooke | Jan 30, 2014 | CDF
Becoming involved with the local community How is it that many of us end up in doing a job we never thought we would do when we left school? In the 1980s I started work in the textile industry and after a couple of personal and professional twists and turns I ended up...
by Alison Seabrooke | Dec 17, 2013 | CDF
The announcement on 17 December 2013, by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) and the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), to release lending data at a postcode level, marks a significant turning point in the quest for both greater transparency and greater fairness in...
by Alison Seabrooke | Nov 30, 2013 | CDF, Guest blog
Through my work at the Community Development Foundation (CDF), and my personal experience of setting up and running many community organisations and a large social enterprise, I know how powerful it can be when people come together with a vision of improving where...
by Alison Seabrooke | Oct 30, 2013 | CDF
Reflecting on the Remaking Cities Congress in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which took place in mid-October, I can honestly say it exceeded my expectations and surprised me in a number of ways. I felt privileged to have been invited to this second Congress, the first of...
