The Community Development Podcast (@CommDevtPodcast)

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

Ep. 42 - The Seven Deadly Sins of Community Development pt. 2

In this episode Paul Lachapelle and Charlie McConnell continue talking us through what they call 'The Seven Deadly Sins of Community Development'. Paul, from Montana State University, and Charlie are both former Presidents of the International Association for Community Development and co-wrote a recent paper on the Seven Deadly Sins published in issue 3 of the Journal of the Community Development Society: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15575330.2023.2217883 The first part of the discussion can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/the-cd-podcast/seven-deadly-sins-of-cd-pt1?si=2c01c0d9dc434f5d9006c9ef15c3a4ab&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing _________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast www.russelltodd.cymru

Ep. 41 - The Seven Deadly Sins of Community Development (pt.1)

In this episode, the first of a two-parter, Paul Lachapelle, from Montana State University, and Charlie McConnell - both former Presidents of the International Association for Community Development - discuss their recent paper 'The Seven Deadly Sins of Community Development' published in issue 3 of the Journal of the Community Development Society: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15575330.2023.2217883 In this first part, we discuss: Anti-expertism Localism and self-help An overemphasis upon social capital ____________________ Support the podcast on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/TheCDPodcast Produced by Russell Todd twitter.com/llannerch twitter.com/commdevtpodcast www.russelltodd.cymru