Tag: Interview
Once described as the 'scrag-end' of Kingston-upon-Thames, Tolworth was less a destination, more a place to pass through or avoid completely. That was until a group of local residents decided to add a bit of colour, playfulness and plastic...
29th July, 2021
Case study • Community Power • Community Voices • Interview • Podcast • Regeneration
Ruth Ibegbuna has devoted her career to amplifying the voices and broadening the life choices of young people – particularly those from working-class, BAME and Northern backgrounds. Her current pioneering work includes joining up community members scarred by Brexit...
1st March, 2021
BAME Communiites • Community Power • Education and skills • Interview • Schools • Stronger Things • Young people
A vlog from Katie Kelly, Depute Chief Executive - Safer Communities, at East Ayshire Council in Scotland. In 2013, Katie helped set up the council's Vibrant Communities Service - a ground-breaking approach to sharing power between the local authority...
7th December, 2020
Build Back Better • Community Power • Community Voices • Council Voices • Covid-19 • Interview • Mobilisation • New Local Network • Scotland • Strategy and leadership
NLGN is proud to welcome Sir Chris Ham to our Board.
7th July, 2020
Chris Ham • Community Power • Health care • Interview • New Local Board • NHS
We're talking to people leading change in local government about their work, their place, and the pandemic.
23rd June, 2020
There have been smiles and tears, exhilaration and complete exhaustion. The past months seem like a year and the normality of the time before the pandemic seems a lifetime ago. Yet in such a short time we have achieved...
22nd June, 2020
We talk to people leading change in local government about their work, their place and the pandemic.
17th June, 2020
To mark International Women’s Day 2020, we speak to Julia Unwin DBE, whose remarkable career has seen her lead the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and lead an inquiry into the future of civil society. She talks about the social passions...
6th March, 2020
Kajal Odera ran campaigns for Youth Parliament, Crisis and Macmillan before joining Change.org – an online petition website with over 240 million users worldwide. She became the UK Executive Director in 2017. Kajal will be one of our ‘unleashed’...
6th March, 2020
In the run up to our Stronger Things community power event, we’re interviewing local activists who are leading by example. This week we meet Alison Haskins, who taught sewing in Lesotho before helping to revitalise a community in a...
27th February, 2020
Community Power • Interview • Powerful Communities • Public Sector Voices
In the run up to our Stronger Things community power event, we’re interviewing local activists who are leading by example. We start with Hannah Sloggett, who has revitalised an area of Plymouth through Nudge Community Builders, starting with a...
20th February, 2020