The value and impact achieved by Grow Social Capital with its community partnership in London with the Bengali East End Heritage Society delivering the Modern Cockney Festival has been recognised in an academic study by the University of Warwick entitled, ‘Reducing...
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Join us for ‘A Very English Chat’
We were thrilled to be featured in last Saturday's edition of The Guardian alongside Caroline Lucas, Kojo Koram and Billy Bragg for the launch of A Very English Chat, our approach for engaging people in a far less toxic, polarising and more inclusive way of discussing...
All the Fun of the (Heritage) Fair!
Next month, we're off to Leicester in the English East Midlands for the latest Saturday Heritage Fair hosted by our friends at the Documentary Media Centre and the Independent Heritage Network. Leicester is one of the UK's most diverse cities and a motivation behind...
Grow Social Capital at the Fate of Britain Convention
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...
Grow Social Capital at More In Common In Action
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...
Grow Social Capital at SxSW
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,...
Overcoming ‘myopic inclusivity’ – our submission to the Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion
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...
Tramspiration in Melbourne
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...
Why food is part of our social capital and why MPs are now calling for protected status for traditional Cockney Pie n Mash
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...
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