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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‘Social Capital Comms’ – transform your communications and changemaking using social capital
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...
The ‘fading Welsh accent and does it even matter?’ – a response
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...
Two Cockneys in search of Wales’ best bara brith cake on an ‘Odyssey to Anglesey’ | ‘Siwrnai i Sir Fôn’
Where is the best bara brith in Wales? Two Cockneys, now living in Wales, are aiming to find out where the best traditional cake can be found, also learn a new word and phrase of Welsh every day, on a week-long journey of their adopted homeland using their free bus...
Are the working classes revolting?
Are working-class cultural identities such as Cockney, Scouse, and Weegie facing greater social stigma and prejudice that fuels greater division and polarisation in modern society? Leading social commentator David Goodhart of the Policy Exchange explores the issue at...
Modern Cockney on BBC Radio London
16 October is World Dictionary Day and to mark it our director Andy Green was invited onto BBC Radio London to discuss modern Cockney language, speech and identity. You can take a butcher's hook [look] at the full interview on our YouTube channel:...
Why do we need the Dublin Conversations?
This weekend Grow Social Capital will be in Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. We know, we know....it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. Specifically, we are heading to Ireland for the launch of Dublin Conversations (#ConversationsFest), a weekend event like no...
Seeing social capital in practice
We have had the pleasure of joining a couple of seminars recently at which the value of social capital has been front and centre of research and practice. Dyffryn Dyfodol Two weeks ago we joined the online Dyffryn Dyfodol workshop hosted by Iwan and Kate from Ffiwsar...
Discover Walkspiration – your journeys to work will never be the same again!
How can you make coming into the office more attractive for your hybrid teams? How can you enable your people to live, and breathe a bigger picture in their work to be more creative, purposeful, and overcome the ‘Haven’t got time' Monster’? A great new solution is at...
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