The Community Development Podcast (@CommDevtPodcast)

In this episode Russell is joined by: - Elliott Evans, Community Development Manager for Merthyr Town Football Club - James Mathie (Head of Club Development for England and Wales) - Tim Hartley (Vice Chair) of Supporters Direct to discuss the ways in which the supporters trust movement is community development. They discuss how the model of private ownership is consciously rejected for a more coop...

In this episode Dr Jan Huyton talks about how Community Philosophy based on a community of enquiry method – first developed by SAPERE – can potentially bring about transformative change in the lives of people and communities as diverse as prisoners and senior managers. Jan discusses the influence of Raymond Williams on this approach and the work of the Raymond Williams Foundation and the more scho...

In this episode Russell chats with Gary Brown, project manager of the Brymbo Heritage Project in north east Wales, to discuss how Community Development is at the heart of regeneration work that has recently been awarded almost £2 million of Lottery funding. Brymbo is the site of a former steelworks that shut in 1990. The heritage group was later set up by former steelworkers but has over the years...

In the very first episode of The Community Development Podcast Russell is joined by Alan Twelvetrees, author of the seminal Community Work, first published in 1982, and with a sixth edition due in 2022. Alan explains his threefold typology of community work, as indicated by the book's new title - Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning - drawing on his experience in the field from...

I first met Mike Barclay, from Wrexham’s Play Development team and Ludicology, in November 2015 when we began liaising over research into the social benefits of playwork in Wrexham as part of our respective day jobs. As we finalised the research brief I gained a much clearer understanding of playwork (as distinct from play), and was prompted to consider Community Development in a different light....