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The Collective, Episode 2 – Community responses

The second episode of The Collective, exploring Community responses to the crisis, is now online. Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4rLgvw-0-A The Collective is an hour of inspiring stories of collective action to promote dignity, agency and power. In this

Book review: No Fixed Abode

No Fixed Abode by Maeve McClenaghan is published this month. It tells the stories of many people who have been pushed into homelessness and who have died or lost friends – and it challenges us all to make this a

Let’s walk upon the water

Self-Reliant Group facilitator, Laura Walton, considers the seaside this bank holiday weekend. Such is the advancement of science and technology that we can control and direct so much of our everyday lives in a way that our parents were never

a park with a path and some trees

A walk in the park

Self-Reliant Group facilitator, Laura Walton, celebrates the joys of going for a walk in a park A walk in the park. A phrase often used when something is relatively easy, leisurely and requiring little effort. A throwaway comment at times,

Sign reading Look After Each Other

Look after each other

Self-Reliant Group facilitator, Laura Walton, reflects on the importance of looking after each other. Despite what the rest of the country thinks, we Mancunians are following the rules. On a huge billboard in amongst the skyscrapers of the Mancunian way