Social capital: the operating system that powers community
Cyfalaf cymdeithasol: y system weithredu sy'n pweru cymuned
Here's Sidney & Joanna, sisters from Virginia & Orlando respectively, at Cardiff Central this morning
We were all off to Manchester. Us for the More in Common conference; they to fly home
They've been in Wales tracing their ancestry, in particular Sidney Rowlands orig. from Malpas nr Newport, then System Street in Adamsdown where he worked at East Moors Steelworks before emigrating to the US
Naturally we thrust a Splott pocket museum in their hands, took a pic & added it to our presentation
Early start tomorrow
Off to Manchester and the More In Common conference where we'll be presenting our Splott pocket museum project
Our #Splott50Story crowdfunder is live!
Help make the #Splott pocket museum a reality and grab your own copy
Our #Splott50Story crowdfunder is live!
Help make the #Splott pocket museum a reality and grab your own copy
Today we submitted evidence to the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion
Read 'Overcoming "myopic inclusivity"' here:
Our friends at Living Well Together have been collating evidence from the field for submission to the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion, a non-partisan, time-limited commission seeking to explore the challenges to our community. Some of these challenges arise from fresh expressions of old tensions. Others are derived from the emergence of new ones. […]
Join us for a Date with Raymond Williams
Ymunwch â ni am dyddiad â Raymond Williams
Friday 2 May | Dydd Gwener 2 Mai
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-date-with-raymond-williams-tickets-891668794367?aff=oddtdtcreator
During the 2024 Modern Cockney Festival we helped curate the story of Cockney into a pocket museum of '50 objects'
Since then we have teamed up w/
Splott Community Volunteers and Inksplott to tell the Story of #Splott in 50 Objects. We're near completion & can't wait to share the results with the wider community
What 50 Objects would YOU choose to tell the story of your community?
https://growsocialcapital.org.uk/services/tell-your-community-story-in-50-objects/
Create a more powerful narrative for your community. Build a greater sense of togetherness, shared values, and vision with your community – your local area, organisation, collaborative network by co-creating and co-producing your very own ‘Pocket Museum’ story. We are pioneering new processes and tools to enable communities to co-create and co-produce – and it’s […]
Join our biographical tour of Raymond Williams's 'Border Country', taking in the key locations that shaped his life, work & writing
Ymunwch ag ein taith bywgraffiadol yng nghyffiniau Raymond Williams a fydd yn ymweld â lleoliadau allweddol a ddylanwadodd ei fywyd, ei waith a'i ysgrifennu
🗓️ Friday 2 May | Dydd Gwener 2 Mai
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-date-with-raymond-williams-tickets-891668794367?aff=oddtdtcreator
#OTD in 1972 #Splott-born Clive Sullivan becomes the first person of colour to captain any British or Home nation sporting team: the Great Britain #rugbyleague team to face France in a Test match in Toulouse.
Clive is one of the 50 Objects chosen by the community to tell the story of Splott, a project that celebrates the rich and diverse history of the famous Cardiff district
Who/What would you choose to tell the story of your home town?
