CoPProspectus2013.pdf is a two page poster (A3 format - but readable A4) that summarises the FierySpirits…

Over the last couple of weeks, Dead Good Guides have been camped out in a wood near where I live, inviting passers-by to help transform trees felled by a mighty storm on January 3rd into carvings of the animals whose habitat changed dramatically overnight…

A new book investigating the cultural background to the ongoing maritime conflict in the Sound of Barra in the Western Isles is being published this week. The book, called ‘Dùthchas na Mara’ (‘Belonging to the Sea’), highlights the role that traditional knowledge of the sea plays in maintaining Gaelic speaking island fishing communities in Scotland and Ireland. It also suggests that traditional knowledge may be an important cultural source for the current campaign on Barra against Scottish…

In the most recent edition of 'NewsBurst' we invited members to submit links to your websites, blogs, twitter pages and more with the promise that we'd try to point others your way.

A trial version of ‘member news direct’ service is now live - and we need your help to improve it:

1) a ‘members news’ box now sits on the front of fieryspirits.com, and in addition

2) members can sign up for a daily email newsletter with news updates. 

At present, we are taking…

THere's a formatted version here:

http://eepurl.com/mzSo5

... or if you're in a hurry:…

• What topics do you want Fiery Spirits Community of Practice to focus on?
• Have any of the resources CoP members produced last year been useful?
• What web features should we improve or develop?
• Should Fiery Spirits merge with other network(s) or go it alone in the future?

A members' survey opens today.... please take five…

This new publication from Fiery Spirits CoP gathers a mix of experience and academic insight into how local communities are learning how to cope – and even thrive - through difficult times.

As this site develops we update our 'new member pack'. Download the latest version here

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The Community of Practice is entering a new phase of development.

We are seeking to appoint two Carnegie Associates to help build two topics - focussed on young peoples' involvement in managing community assets, and how services can be effectively transferred from local authority control. 

Each position will be…

. What is community resilience?

. How are people building it?

. Why does it…

I've writing on behalf of a CoP member who has been in touch with some questions about developing an ambitious regional action plan. As things are still in early stages, it's not yet appropriate to announce details of where this will happen - but any advice FS members can offer for an emerging group of local authority and private sector interests who want to develop an effective way to engage several communities would be…

New Guide for Effective Asset-Based Community Development

For the past two years, Fiery Spirits…

Over the past few months, Carnegie UK Trust sponsored the now closed Sustainable Development Commission to write a report called 'Measuring What Matters' - the report's now available to download/read here: http://issuu.com/fieryspirits/docs/more_than_gdp



You might also recall a flurry of Fiery SPirits events in 2009 with the same name - the videos and resources from these are well worth revisiting (see for example…

The CoP Steering Group is now seeking nominations for three additional members to support its development. The Steering Group's task is to ensure the CoP is highly useful to its members.

Its remit includes

• defining the purpose and high level outcomes for the CoP;
• setting the thematic focus;
• overseeing a £150K fund to support development of CoP activity; and
• overseeing a transition from Carnegie UK Trust to independence by December…