Finally getting round to introducing a modest offering from the Communities on the Edge team in the form of a Handbook for Community Animators. It's essentially a collection of thoughts and reflections from our small team of seven, compiled over the three years of our RARP project, which we hope might be of use to others serving out similar roles in their own places.



Feedback, comment etc most welcome!



Best,



John…



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Words like sustainability or resilience or vulnerability are often used in the media these days but what do they really mean? The ‘Rethinking the Country Conference', held at Tipperary Institute this week aimed to answer this very question. This was run as part of the Convergence Festival by Cultivate in Dublin and Cloughjordan. Davie Philip from Cultivate and MC for the day, outlined the Conference mission as bringing together Irish stakeholders, leaders and academics from a wide variety of… Continue

Once a year, starting on Sunday, July 19th 2009, we want as many of the 61 million people in the UK as possible to simultaneously sit down to lunch together, with their neighbours, in the middle of their street, as a simple but profound act of community.



Starting in earnest with a public launch in early April, The Big Lunch will bring people together through a unique range of activity: growing food and flowers for the occasion; creating street music, art and theatre stories; dressing… Continue