More excellent work from The Cares Family on the relationships we need and the spaces that nurture them 👏👇

There's amazing community-building going on in local places, but government can make it add up to more than the sum of its parts. Rich Bell's ideas for how we can turn a ripple of local connection into a wave across the country are superb. thecaresfamily.org.uk/blog/building-…

The Labour Party has begun to set out a vision to shift where power lies so local people can genuinely shape the places where they live. This is how to make it a reality… 🧵 ⬇️

Beautifully illustrated. Thanks The Relationships Project for highlighting The Cares Family work. #RelationshipsMatter

Campaign for community power We're Right Here: the campaign for community power publish their new paper - Blueprint for Double Devolution - in response to Labour's Brown Commission report - read it here right-here.org/a-blueprint-fo…

If any organisation embodies what Levelling Up could & should mean, it’s @HeeleyTrust. This story is an utter indictment of the government’s approach & of Whitehall-knows-best thinking. bylinetimes.com/2023/02/13/lev…

A fascinating account of just how vital are strong relationships to both our physical as well as mental wellbeing. Worth a read. 👇

Effective awareness campaigns can inform the public about the work you do as a charity and empower others. At Reset Communities for Refugees 🧡, 'CommuniTeas' inspires communities to shape their own narrative on refugees. Bea Forrester🧡 explains more. 👇 bit.ly/3loVkHa

Like, I suspect, a lot of stalwartly Labour Scots, I have been quietly proud that my country has been led by a person of Sturgeon’s intelligence & decency. If, in 2023, the SNP were to make someone who holds this view FM - whatever their positive qualities - I’d be ashamed.

This a perfect example of what community power looks like in practice 👏 ✅Community ownership 🌱 ✅Improved social connection 🤝 ✅Better health and wellbeing ❤️ It also demonstrates the transformative potential a Community Power Act could have for local people 📢

💬"We shouldn’t be asking ourselves whether we can afford to strengthen social connection; rather, we should be asking whether we can we afford not to." Sam Dalton has written for the The Fabian Society about our new manifesto on building social connection 👇 fabians.org.uk/crisis-of-conn…

Very pleased to write my first article for LabourList giving a high-level preview of what we can expect to learn from the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election when it rolls around. labourlist.org/2023/08/labour…

The least advantaged pupils would benefit the most from increased investment in teachers’ expertise and skills, according to new research by Frontier Economics: ambition.org.uk/teaching-quali…

Another huge blow - so sad to see the loss of such high-impact organisations working in wellbeing and tackling social isolation, not long after the Cares Family. These are huge issues of our time & sad not to see more funders backing this work, especially ahead of an election

CAMPAIGN WIN! Since our launch, we’ve campaigned for a Community Right to Buy. Today, the government has committed to implementing this policy. 🥳 Well done to everyone involved in the campaign. This is the beginning of a community power moment! right-here.org/devolution-whi…

“It's the local civic building, the local pub, the local church that aren't just buildings, they're part of people’s story and people really care about them.” Minister @JimFromOldham on the importance behind the Community Right to Buy, responding to Amanda Louise Martin's question.