‘Before you came over the challenge here looked like eating an elephant – it was just too enormous. Now I feel we know how to eat the elephant.’ We’ve been working with the Cedar Foundation, a small charity that began life in Bulgaria leading the de-institutionalisation of orphanages for disabled children, and is now beginning […]
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How to eat an elephant
September 23, 2014 by Julian
Filed Under: community, international, placemaking Tagged With: assets, community development, economy, Mwanza, placemaking, Tanzania
How to create community assets
March 4, 2013 by Julian
Since 1992, several hundred homes in a corner of west London have been the standard-bearers of a new form of community control. Previously owned by Westminster Council, they were transferred to a resident-controlled housing association, Walterton and Elgin Community Homes, under the 1988 ‘tenants’ choice’ legislation. Walterton and Elgin Community Homes (WECH) arose from […]
Filed Under: community, economy, housing, public services, regeneration Tagged With: assets, housing, people-centred, poverty, public services, social policy