CAMPAIGN WIN! Since our launch, we’ve campaigned for a Community Right to Buy. Today, the Government has committed to implementing this policy. 🥳

Well done to everyone involved in the campaign. This is the beginning of a community power moment!
www.right-here.org/devolution-w...

From the absolute worst to the absolute best of our communities. Two men torched this Liverpool library last summer. Now the community (with help from @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social) have raised money to rebuild it and light up the streets. 🤩🌠

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

The huge success of a mixed-discipline team at Wirral Council could form the model for a revival of Total Place-style place-based budgets, writes @katoglet.bsky.social.

Read more about how Cradle to Career has transformed outcomes for families in North Birkenhead. https://buff.ly/48Ia20D

It's easy to say public services are broken, but harder to suggest how to fix them.

That's why stories like Cradle to Career are important. They are a model of transformed social care works - hyperlocal, joined-up & people-centred. And they've changed the lives of so many families for the better.

A pleasure to host HWDI today - rare to come across a public services intervention with such clear impact on people's lives - children staying at home because of therapy that comes in at an early & focuses on whole family.

(Check out more here: bridgesoutcomespartnerships.org/work/young-p...)

Wrote about need for people to be genuinely included in entire planning process - moving beyond the tick-box culture that breeds NIMBYism.

To coincide with @wearenewlocal.bsky.social new research www.newlocal.org.uk/publications...

(& am experiencing special pain of the big face op-ed pic 🫣)

What if we regenerated for the ground up? With the insights & expertise of people who live & work in the places?

Pleasure to work on this new research from @wearenewlocal.bsky.social that aims to bust the myth we're an island of NIMBYs - instead it's a planning system that adversarial by design.

I feel like I am 14 doing this but booky listy things bring me to a place of ✌️, so -

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order - no explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#bookchallenge #booksky💙📚 1/20

People just love making a massive noise about being introverts these days.

Ironic.

Hello Dolly with Imelda Staunton was the most heart-busting, feel-good beautiful spectacle of a musical, making you want to grab life and live it. All this despite not one second of the mess of a plot making sense.

www.theguardian.com/stage/articl...

Hot (mild) take: People who say Autumn = fave season have actually been conned by American idea of 'Fall'. Sunny days, crisp leaves, back to school in yellow bus with your pumpkin tootsie roll.

British Autumn = the grey purgatory that is beginning outside, right now. This can be nobody's favourite.