This article in the Irish Times (6 September 2025) caught our eye. It tells the remarkable story of how a library in the port town of Dún Laoghaire that was considered a costly extravagance - a 'vanity project' - has become Ireland's busiest library. "We want everyone...
At a time when the UK is divided over use of its own flag, with widening social division and polarisation, there’s a welcome event, The Fate of Britain Convention at the Conway Hall, London, where Grow Social Capital will be speaking and sharing our insights from our...
On 20 May, our Andy Green and Russell Todd were guests at the More In Common In Action conference in Manchester hosted by the Jo Cox Foundation. We were thrilled, with the support of Cardiff Council's community cohesion team, to be present to lead a workshop about our...
Last week our Andy Green was a guest panellist at South by Southwest in London discussing questions of English identity in modern day Britain and so-called ‘culture wars’. Last year, SXSW expanded its global footprint, taking the iconic annual event from Austin,...
Our friends at Living Well Together have been collating evidence from the field for submission to the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion, a non-partisan, time-limited commission seeking to explore the challenges to our community. Some of these challenges...
Grow Social Capital’s passion is for using untapped resources in our communities and transforming them into positive opportunities. So while Grow founder Andy Green is in Melbourne he recently shared the power of his ‘Tubespiration’ creativity on the London...
A campaign co-created by Grow Social Capital to protect the staple dish of Cockney cuisine, Pie’n’Mash by seeking protected status to protect its heritage and promote itself worldwide is now getting the support of Members of Parliament who are lending their backing to...
We are privileged to host a special visit to Cardiff of Tristan Claridge, the Australian-based President of the International Social Capital Association and Director of the Institute for Social Capital who is visiting as part of a UK-wide tour. He will be joining our...
though we’d always challenge the reductive assumption that there is only one type of Welsh accent – Wales has many accents - the ‘fading Welsh accent and does it even matter?’ article by Stephen Price (Nation Cymru, 17 August 2024) does highlight a broader issue about...
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