One Year of Connect – Watch the Celebration
Over the past 12 months, residents, community groups and public services in Barking and Dagenham have been building something extraordinary together.
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Lessons from The Attic Project: Creating Spaces That Truly Support People
Heather Howarth shares her visit to The Attic Project. Their approach to building belonging, confidence, and connection offers valuable lessons for our Connect project in Barking & Dagenham.
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Learning across divides: bringing neighbourhoods together to work more effectively against social isolation in “Connect”
Michael Robert’s blog shares how the Connect project is enabling community-driven solutions to social isolation.
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Fighting Fuel Poverty Together: Community Solutions for Healthier, Resilient Futures
Our work aligns closely with the recently published LSE Policy Brief, highlighting shared priorities and strategies for addressing fuel poverty and fostering resilience.
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Design Thinking, Journey Mapping, Prototyping. Project reflections from our intern
As we say goodbye to our wonderful LIS intern Sarah Trott, she shares her final reflections on working with Care City and, amongst many other learnings, how to get to grips with Miro boards!
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Reflections from my second week as an intern at Care City
Sarah’s been here two weeks now. Her blog shares last weeks experiences of meeting the team IN PERSON (!) & connecting with the amazing participants of Shedlife.
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Life at Care City as an LIS intern
From accidents in a Waitrose lorry to Human Learning Systems and Miro boards, Sarah reflects on her first week at Care City.
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You don’t solve society’s challenges in meeting rooms
Michael Robert’s blog shares why we’re recognising storytelling as increasingly critical to our work & the need for co-produced responses to local challenges.
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Building a community system resilience model to tackle social isolation
James Sinclair’s blog looks at the commitments, systems and communities we need to begin to make a real difference to those feeling socially isolated and lonely.