Last week I jumped on a train to Bristol to spend the day with WeCanMake. They are responding to the housing crisis by asking: What if the power and resources to create good homes were in the hands of communities?

JRF’s Emerging Futures Pathfinders Back in the depths of winter, just before finishing off for the year,  the CoLab Dudley team (which is convened by Dudley CVS) received a most unexpected letter by email. It was from the Emerging Futures

Arts Council England and the National Lottery Community Fund have awarded £125,000 to Dudley CVS’s work with local Time Rebels over the coming year. The funding will support Time Rebels to meet and build relationships with local people across Dudley

A warming winter welcome awaits people from community groups and networks, and local not-for-profits who would like to meet local artists, makers and creatives. Through CoLab Dudley, with the Creative Black Country team, we have been working with Dudley’s creative and artistic

The Earth is resting now and if we can, we must slow down and rest too. It is a good time to settle back into our local environment and appreciate the land and the friends and the neighbours we have