Hidden Histories: Atherton’s Council Houses

“You lived on Hag Fold? You were posh you!…”

April 2020 marks the centenary of a forgotten event but an event which nonetheless changed thousands of lives. On the 14th April 1920, Atherton’s first four council-built houses were occupied by their tenants. Nowadays this might seem trivial but we cannot underestimate the huge impact social housing had on living conditions. This was a ground-breaking […]

Hidden Histories: Atherton’s Council Houses

With shared power comes shared responsibility

Framing research has found that it is common for campaigners, in their communications, the media in their reporting, and the public in their thinking and understanding to omit the human-designed systemic factors shaping people’s life experiences and opportunities.   As a result, we can too often attribute people’s life situation, such as poverty, homelessness, or obesity, […]

With shared power comes shared responsibility

The evolution of Meeting Centres in Scotland

“A Meeting Centre is a local resource, operating out of ordinary community buildings, that offers on-going warm and friendly expert support to people with mild to moderate dementia and their families. At the heart of the Meeting Centre is a social club where people meet to have fun, talk to others and get help that focuses on what they need. Meeting Centres are based on sound research evidence of what helps people to cope well in adjusting to living with the symptoms and changes that dementia brings”

Association for Dementia Studies Blog

The first webinar in the new series took place on 25^th February, and joining Dr Shirley Evans to speak about the work that’s been going on in Scotland around Meeting Centres were:

• Graham Galloway, Kirrie Connections
• Arlene Crockett, Life Changes Trust
• Dr Kainde Manji, About Dementia, Age Scotland
• Ron Coleman, Deepness Dementia Media

The webinar started with Shirley giving a brief description of what a Meeting Centre is, to make sure everyone was on the same page. Essentially:

“A Meeting Centre is alocal resource, operating out of ordinary community buildings, that offers on-going warm and friendly expert support to people with mild to moderate dementia and their families. At the heart of the Meeting Centre is a social club where people meet to have fun, talk to others and get help that focuses on what they need. Meeting Centres are based on sound research evidence of what helps people…

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Place: the missing key for unlocking a circular economy –

RSA source: https://www.thersa.org/blog/2021/11/place-circular-economy

The Familiar Credo

We believe…

On People

• People are capable of amazing things. With a just little support and encouragement, people can achieve just about anything. No limits.

On Purpose

• We exist as a community solely to help as many people as possible come to better understand themselves and what’s important to themselves as individuals; and to help each of them (us) make those important things happen.
• We must subordinate everything else, even our very existence, to this Purpose.
• To continue to fulfil our Purpose we must meet the basic needs of the group: food, money, shelter, peer respect, etc. (c.f. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs).
• Just as creatures need air to live but do not live for air, we regard these basics as necessary prerequisites to continue living, but in no way the purpose of life.

Read in full at Think Different source: https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/the-familiar-credo/