by Alison Seabrooke | Mar 31, 2017 | Article, CDF
Getting real Professional impact of closure There’s not much you can write about an organisation that has closed, other than to note that a year has passed quickly. The Community Development Foundation was around for nearly 50 years and, since it ceased trading on 31...
by Alison Seabrooke | Mar 27, 2017 | Thinkpiece
Communities Week 2017 provided a refreshing reminder of how local communities continue to take action on the issues that affect them, without apology or permission. It reminded me, too, of many national conversations I have been party to around how to support,...
by Alison Seabrooke | Jan 5, 2017 | Article
Over the past few months I have provided strategic and practical advice on engaging communities in siting a government-led nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP). What is unusual – and what hooked me in – is that the government intends to adopt a...
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 | 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....
