New mag looks at community organising and much, much more
This month’s TFN magazine celebrates the power of community – exploring how ordinary people have organised from the grassroots to achieve change.
We focus on the Glasgow scheme of Castlemilk, but there are examples everywhere, for example, the wonderful work done by Supporting Our Community in Hillhouse in Hamilton.
This is real civil society in profound action – charities and voluntary groups have to be there to help people, but ordinary people themselves have a remarkable, collectivist ability to help themselves.
This is the lifeblood of our sector – we should celebrate it more.
What happens when a keystone organisation in our communities closes or is taken away? We look at that through an anatomy of what happened at Edinburgh Engine Shed, 10 years from its closure.
We look at that this month – it’s a lengthy and detailed read, but an essential one.
Elsewhere, Nina Barough reflects on the success of the MoonWalk and we look at what lessons can be learnt from failures of data governmence at Birthlink.
You will find all of that and much more in this month as well as TFN's usual line up of excellent columnists and features.
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