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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
