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Marketing Tips & Tricks for Community Groups

In this blog post I want to bring you the tools, tips and advice shared by leaders of loca...

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Community Bunting Project

You may remember our Community Bunting project that we ran a while back.  We were overwhe...

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A Conversation On Losing Control

This podcast was recorded by a small group of people invited by Barnwood Trust to attend 2...

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Communication for Community Groups

Communication for Community Groups invited members from local community groups to attend a...

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Four pillars of community research

We are aware that we are very fortunate at Barnwood to have the opportunity not only to do...

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The Art of Participatory Community Building

Back in July I was part of a gathering of 60+ individuals passionate about community-led c...

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The Wheels For All team and community members socialising at the community space in Cannop, Forest of Dean.

‘The bog blog’ – or, making your community space more ...

Every month or so our Grants Advisory Panel meets to look at the applications we’ve rece...

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We spoke to Ann Santry, new Chair at Barnwood Trust

Barnwood Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Ann Santry CBE as the new Chair o...

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Rediscovering Welcome

We may have moved away from the original old English meaning of welcome: ‘Wilcuma’ –...

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