The Institute of Directors Guernsey recently released a ground-breaking report on Guernsey’s social capital, detailing its impact on the island’s economic, business and community wellbeing. We were thrilled to welcome Tristan Claridge author of Social Capital: The Key...
Terrific news! Cadoxton Primary School, whose headteacher, Janet Hayward, is one of our Tummler School Masterclass speakers, has been shortlisted for a global education award. Go get 'em Cadoxton and Janet!
Our friend Rob Watson of Decentered Media, based in Leicester, poses the question who is studying social gain in respect of British community media, which Rob describes as a mode of social sensemaking that invokes active participation from the people involved. That...
Our Russell recently appeared on Radio Cardiff to discuss the Philosophy in Pubs group that he founded in Cardiff CF14 PiP. It is a fortnightly, open door session of convivial chat engaging in the big issues of life and society in which it is fine to disagree. You can...
by ANTON JÄGER for Jacobin Magazine (May 2022) Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone chronicled the growing loneliness and isolation of wealthy societies. Twenty years later, the problem is far worse than he could have imagined.
This is a great article in The Guardian about how lockdown has prompted people to get to know their neighbours better and reclaim spaces locally for social interactions:
