by Alison Seabrooke | Jun 30, 2014 | CDF
I am a huge advocate of peer-to-peer learning and networking in communities and between community groups. It’s the place where people are able to speak frankly about their ideas, as well as any challenges they have faced, with people like them. I recently realised how...
by Alison Seabrooke | Apr 30, 2014 | Guest blog
I was privileged to be asked to participate on the closing discussion panel at the RSA and British Land event on 2nd April on ‘socially productive places’. These places are ones where communities have an opportunity to shape the physical environment where they live,...
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 | May 31, 2013 | CDF
Cuts to welfare payments could deal another blow to struggling local economies, with the Government’s reform programme, which aims to move people off benefit and into jobs, taking an estimated £19 billion a year out of working age social security between now and 2015....
