I just wanted to share some of the amazing gifts of the people of Lostock that we have discovered already, it’s a long and interesting list and doesn’t include everything, remember this list has been gathered in just under 4 Months, so here goes

We’ve got Gardeners, Cleaners, Bee Keepers, Bakers, Skaters, Jewellery Makers, Carpenters, Builders, Knitters, Radio Entrepreneurs, Fishermen, Chefs, Teachers, Card Makers, Jam Makers, Wine Makers, Recyclers, Quiz Masters, Veg Growers,…

Why Carpentary for the Man's Shed? 

Since man was able to walk on two legs he has been able to make things out of wood, making this the earliest trade of all, with the possible exception of pottery coming in a close second.

Even when metal was discovered and cast iron items were made, pattern makers had to first make the item out of wood so that the sand mould could be made to take the molton metal.

Carpentary used to be taught in most schools,…

This edition of the Fair Share Trusts news bulletin focuses on strength based perceptions in Greater Manchester, Birmingham and Black Country, Swindon and London.

Focus on strengths changes perceptions in Greater Manchester, Birmingham & Black Country, Blackpool, Swindon and London

Over the past 12 months a small number of Community Foundations have been turning to a strength based approach and the results of that work is now coming to fruition and here's a…

Steph, Marty, Helen (Forever Manchester's Community Builder) and Lynsey residents of the Alt Estate forming ACCT....

Following a number of sessions with residents from Alt in Oldham, a young mum, unprompted as written a letter to her community.

Lynsey, who's a member of Alt…

Hi check this out from Forever Manchester's ABCD 2 day event November 2011

http://www.socialreporters.net/?p=278

Hope you enjoy!

Regards,

Gary

Recently Drew Mackie and I ran a training workshop about social reporting with community builders atForever Manchester, as I trailed here. In practice it was more of an exchange of ideas, insights and triggers for further exploration … which is how we hoped it would turn out. We learned a lot.

I won’t attempt a detailed description, but want to share some of the materials we…

I have been most encouraged by the positive reaction of the Wiltshire Assembly to the ABCD message. Watch this space:http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/wiltshire-assembly-conference-report-15-02-2012-people-powered-change.pdf

All the best,

Cormac

Respectful language – Laura (Mole) Chapman

I started my research into ‘respectful language’ having delivered a number of workshops on the subject as part of Equality and Diversity programmes. People often requested this session because in their professional roles they felt scared to use ‘wrong words’. What always struck me was that during the training activity people often expressed frustration with political correctness, it made…

Hi everyone, it's been a hectic few months here and i have been pretty lax in keeping in touch with folk on this forum  - my apologies to all, ill be making sure i play a more active role on here in future,

So what have we been up to???

1:Engaging different teams of Council Officers around the conceptof ABCD

2:Working with community panels as part of the 'Community First' programme we have going on in some areas

3:Working to share ABCD with senior managers within the…

http://www.redroseforest.co.uk/web/content/view/86/103/

Everyone has a Story, a collection of life experiences, lessons learned and skills to teach which make them unique and that also make them useful to someone else and the community at large.  Stories can be entertaining and educational, Skills can be taught and shared like a living how to guide.  In this way we can view individuals as collections of unique tales, instruction manuals and text books. 

So if the people are the books the community could be seen as the library.  A home for…

I feel fortunate to have been able to attend two learning events recently in relation to asset based approaches in health and wellbeing work. 

Rather than taking notes I opted to tweet during the events, and blog afterwards. Through tweeting I was able to involve 12 people who weren't at the sessions in discussions about what we were covering.

Here are tweets from the first session, which provided an introduction and some case studies: …

Last week I was invited to attend an Asset Building Community Development Training organised by Dawn Carr, the speaker being Cormac Russell, which took place at the Public Art gallery in West Bromwich in the West Midlands, UK.  

The training covered two days. I came to realise that most of the things Cormac Russell spoke about we were already doing, but we did not have the language for it before until now, which is ABCD, which is `Asset Building Community Development’.

It took…