Tag: place-expansion
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The Map of a Child’s Town
Sometimes the best way to understand a place is simply to walk it. No surveys.No clipboards.No presentations. Just a group of young people and a simple question: What do you notice? When a school decides to listen One thing that has really stood out recently is how seriously Eskdale Academy have embraced gathering insight from…
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Small Things Done Well
Notes from the unglamorous side of getting stuff done. I can’t remember exactly when it clicked. It was one of those slightly tongue-in-cheek realisations you have halfway through a conversation. I kept finding myself drawn to the same type of people. Different jobs.Different industries.Different personalities. But the same trait. They’re the ones who make things…
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Place Expansion:
Notes on Stewardship from the Ground If you look only at the paperwork, Place Expansion can seem like a set of plans, milestones and reports. If you sit in the work long enough, it feels very different. It feels like conversations in cold parks and along the prom.Like volunteers staying late because they care.Like young…
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What Are We Actually Trying to Learn?
How Hartlepool Sport is using Test & Learn to shape Place Expansion When people hear “Test & Learn”, it’s easy to picture more sessions, more classes, more programmes. But that isn’t what we’re doing. Because if we simply delivered more activity, we might get busier — but we wouldn’t necessarily get better. For Hartlepool Sport,…
Northern Ambiguity 