Natalie Williams
Natalie says...
I work for the Community Development Foundation (CDF) which seeks to influence policy on community development through delivery expertise. I am interested in meeting others working on approaches to improving community cohesion, race equality and tackling hatred and extremism.
Big changes are underfoot in the public and voluntary and community sector. Changes which are likely to change the landscape of community development (cd) support forever. The Big Society and localism agendas raise the bar for us all but not least for communities and community groups at exactly the moment when public and VCS services are set to be dramatically reduced, including CD teams and practitioners. What can we expect community development, or thinking about it in broader terms – intermed...
And if you want to read thoughts on how the Big Society agenda is developing as they emerge, go to the Big Society website where key thinkers from the network are blogging away, including Nat Wei the new Government Advisor on this. It's just getting going but they are running it like a co-op, they want it to be the largest in Britain. People are encouraged to join the network not only to shape the future of the Big Society but also to share ideas and action and as a result they will receive rewa...
