It’s easy to miss the narrow alleyway that leads to Troy Town Art Pottery, running along the wall of Hoxton Street community garden in east London. The low building, which
You have to start with what the people want, what their concerns are and to bring everyone together, so they can realise their power to change things,” says social worker
Not so many years ago, arriving on a Friday night at Bridewell Street in the centre of Bristol (better known as The Bridewell) might have meant a night in the
The futurologist Li Edelkoort (G2, 8 January) has predicted, among other things, that the libraries of the future will be “epicentres in small towns and villages ... which provide lectures
When Henrietta Imoreh was 17, she pulled a knife on a girl at her school. She was arrested and expelled. Her life trajectory seemed destined for a downward arc. Henrietta had
Jamie Oliver is to turn the remains of his business empire into an ethical “B Corporation” that officially gives equal weight to people, the planet and profit. The former Naked Chef
Andrew Cannon’s greatest ambition is to climb Everest. That, and to be happy, and perhaps live with someone some day – more modest goals perhaps, but until recently they all
Almost 30 years after founding the Big Issue, John Bird is launching a new magazine that aims to do for illiteracy what his first publication did for homelessness. The peer, who
Aristotle House in Oxford is not as grand as it sounds. A commercial block built by the canal in the 1960s, it is no longer fit for paying tenants, so
Just weeks after musicians and fans protested the BBC’s decision to marginalise Radio 3’s Late Junction show, the experimental music community has been dealt further blows. First, the news that
A last-ditch bid to prevent one of Britain’s biggest community hubs from being turned into apartments has been launched amid fears about the threat gentrification poses to the “different and
Rare is the DIY dilettante with the foresight to know they are never going to use the rest of that paint they stashed in the shed after doing up the
One of Britain’s biggest community and cultural hubs is facing partial demolition to make way for private apartments under a plan that places dozens of social enterprises, charities and arts
It was seven years ago that Michelle Clark noticed the man and his dog. She was naive about homelessness in those days. She used to wonder, driving through London’s Crouch
A not-for-profit, entirely volunteer-staffed NGO was prompted by a question: “Where’s your lifeboat service?” Robin Jenkins, then a senior lecturer of interior and spatial design at Chelsea College of