Richard Wilson

Hi Kathryn, since you asked and it's been something I've been thinking a lot about today.

From Empowerment to Big Society

These are some of my current thoughts of where Participation in the UK is going right now.

At the top I think we need to acknowledge the following tensions & trends:

Service Engagement (services) Vs Community Activism (democratic);

Increasing demand for volunteering Vs Increasing Time Poverty;

Growth of Social Media Vs Limits of Social Media

I think that we need a new ...