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Ep. 47 - Insights from Scotland about Making Rights Real

In this episode Russell is joined by Hannah Kitchen Kirby and Clare MacGillivray to discuss human rights and to provide a helpful insight into a right-based approach in practice. Between them they provide the lead pair of articles in IACD's March 2025 edition of Practice Insights which is dedicated to the theme of rights: https://www.iacdglobal.org/practice_insights Hannah was until very recently working in Leith in Cables Wynd House, better known as the 'Banana Flats'. She explains how a rights-based approach was at the heart of efforts to secure investment into the housing. Edinburgh City Council recently announced Cables Wynd House and neighbouring Links View House will receive £69 million of investment, including the provision of lifts which had originally been omitted from plans but thanks to campaigning are now included (https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cableswynd-linksview). Clare MacGillivray from the organisation Making Rights Real, provides an overview of her work with Gypsy Travellers at Double Dykes near Perth. You can follow Clare and Hannah: https://makingrightsreal.org.uk/ linkedin.com/company/making-rights-real uk.linkedin.com/in/clare-macgillivray-64382a95 bsky.app/profile/makingrightsreal.bsky.social https://www.bethanychristiantrust.com/ bsky.app/profile/bethanychristiantrust.com facebook.com/BethanyChristianTrust1 instagram.com/bethanychristiantrust linkedin.com/company/bethany-christian-trust Photo credit: Hannah Kitchen Kirby. It features Cables Wynd House residents at the City Chambers in Edinburgh ahead of giving a deputation to the full council calling for new lifts. __________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast toot.wales/@llannerch instagram.com/llannerch www.russelltodd.cymru

Ep.46 - Universities, civic mission & communities with Dr Dave Wyatt

In this episode, Russell drops by Cardiff University for a chat with Dr Dave Wyatt, Reader in Civic Mission and Community Action in the university's School of History, Archaeology and Religion. Dave co-founded CAER Heritage with archaeologist Olly Davis and community development professional Dave Horton. The team have been co-producing heritage projects in the Ely and Caerau districts of west Cardiff for well over a decade now winning numerous awards along the way. In this episode Dave reflects how academics on the project have learned from local development trust, Action in Caerau and Ely and applied community co-production strategies to discovering new knowledge about the past for the benefit of all. The spoken extracts and sound effects are taken from: CAER Hedz: https://youtu.be/xfDmONyfifM?si=tonSRcMay_MR7EXk Time Team BBC Sound Effects archive You can keep abreast of all things CAER Heritage at: www.caerheritage.org/ facebook.com/CAERHeritage x.com/CAERHeritage x.com/SHAREWyatt Details of the Exploring the Past adult learners pathway that Dave refers to can be found here: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/part-time-courses-for-adults/pathways-to-a-degree/pathway-to-a-degree-in-history-archaeology-or-religion There is also this YouTube Video about the courses: https://youtu.be/ssQkvxxoqjo?si=xePjS8hYlq6faLHU __________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd https://bsky.app/profile/llannerch.bsky.social x.com/commdevtpodcast toot.wales/@llannerch instagram.com/llannerch www.russelltodd.cymru

Ep. 45 - Community action & climate change with Fallin Community Voice

For a second successive episode the podcast visits Scotland, with Russell chatting with Naomi Ross and Nikki Thomas of Fallin Community Voice, a community organisation based in the former coalmining village of Fallin near Stirling. Centred around a community garden project, Naomi and Nikki explain how Fallin Community Voice are facilitating discussions about community responses to the climate crisis. The organisation's activities provide safe and accessible 'entry points' to the matter via the range of wider community action that the garden project has stimulated. You can follow Fallin Community Voice at its website and social media: https://fallincommunityvoice.org/ facebook.com/groups/145744717529266 instagram.com/fallincommunitygarden/ instagram.com/fallincommunityvoice/ x.com/FallinVoice And you can donate to their Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/fcv __________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast toot.wales/@llannerch instagram.com/llannerch www.russelltodd.cymru

Ep.44 - Creative Placemaking in Scotland with Katharine Wheeler & The Stove Network

In episode 44, Russell chats to Katharine Wheeler, Development Director of The Stove Network in Dumfries, Scotland and lead for the creative placemaking network, What We Do Now. She talks about The Stove's approach to placing artistic and creative practice at the heart of building communities and designing places; the Scottish policy framework and context in which this takes place; and how arts practitioners and place-makers are building capacity and sharing learning through a networked approach. In the discussion Katharine refers to a document called 'A Creative Placemaking Approach'. It can be read here: https://whatwedonow.scot/resource/a-creative-placemaking-approach/ _____________________ You can follow Katharine at: www.katharinewheeler.com Instagram.com/wheelakat Twitter.com/KWheelArt LinkedIn - Katharine Wheeler You can follow What We Do Now at: https://whatwedonow.scot/ Instagram.com/whatwedonow.scot Twitter.com/WWDN_scot You can follow The Stove at: https://thestove.org/ (where you can sign up The Stove newsletter) Instagram.com/stovenetwork Twitter.com/TheStovies LinkedIn - The Stove Network __________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast toot.wales/@llannerch instagram.com/llannerch www.russelltodd.cymru

Ep.43 - NEW BOOK! Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning

In this episode Russell is joined by the guest who appeared on the very first episode of this podcast, Alan Twelvetrees, to shamelessly plug the brand new book they have co-written on Policy Press: The sixth edition of 'Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning: A Practical Guide' Alan helmed the first five editions that increasingly came to feature contributions from a range of CD writers and practitioners, but with the new edition - the first time it's been published on Policy Press - Russell was asked to contribute a chapter on digital and mobile technologies in CD, and to place community work in a futures context, i.e., what might CWk look like in the event of there being, for instance, universal basic income, or a 4 day week? In the end his role evolved beyond these contributions. **For a limited period of time the book is available with a 20% discount. Simply listen to the episode where a code will be shared for you to use at checkout: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-social-action-and-social-planning-6e Russell's social media links are, as usual, below; while you can follow Alan on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/alan-twelvetrees-640b00248 ____________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast www.russelltodd.cymru