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How I am learning to rewrite the story of me, Cockney, and to give it a future tense
I had a profound experience this week. I learnt much about myself but also about my identity. And a big […]
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Walk your way to wellbeing and new routes to inspiration
Walking was described as the ‘best medicine’ by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. And modern medicine agrees – the NHS
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Drinking at Wetherspoons – a moral dilemma or opportunity to tackle UnSocial Capital?
After lockdown are you going for a drink at a Wetherspoons pub? I’m in a dilemma. On the one hand
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Prison Perspectives on Social Capital
Ahead of joining Grow Social Capital during Social Capital Week 2021 (#SCW21) for a webinar discussing social capital, in a
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Reducing the phoniness of lockdown life with social capital
Last week The Guardian and other news outlets carried an article in which the boss of Unilever – one of
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Can Investments in Social Capital Keep Communities Safe?
Earlier in 2020 our Andy Green and Russell Todd were thrilled and honoured to be published in Planet – The Welsh
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Record shops as social infrastructure
With national Record Store Day due to have been taking place tomorrow Russell Todd, a founding director of social enterprise Grow Social
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Covid-19 has brought neighbours closer
This is a great article in The Guardian about how lockdown has prompted people to get to know their neighbours
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Social capital: in the days of Covid-19, good neighbours keep their distance
A blog from the University of London’s Institute of Education about social capital in the age of covid-19
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Try a Social Capital approach during lockdown
Andy Green and Russell Todd, founding Directors of Grow Social Capital, explain how a Social Capital approach to going online
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The Tortoise Podcast
In April 2020, early in the Coronavirus pandemic, the Tortoise Podcast recently published a conversation with the author of Bowling
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Will we use this crisis to rediscover the value of community – or for more suspicion and othering?
Will we use this crisis to rediscover the value of community – or for more suspicion and othering? Some observations
