Durham Community Action

By Katie Baggott

This is the Durham Community Action podcast, celebrating all things to do with the voluntary and community sector in County Durham.

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The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.

Durham Community Action episodes:

November 17, 2025 Safeguarding Adults Week 2025
As part of Safeguarding Adults Week 2025 we spoke to Lesley Jeavons, independent chair of the Durham Safeguarding Adults Partnership about safeguarding in County Durham, and also highlight the training and support we offer at Durham Community Action.
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12min
September 10, 2025 Rural Durham Community Research Network
This podcast episode focuses on the Rural Durham Community Research Network. We chat to Jemma Austin, Research & Insight Project Lead at Durham Community Action about community research, the aims and objectives of the network and the work so far. We also spoke to community researchers Cath Robson from Weardale Together and Perry Gardner about the challenges rural communities face and how research can address these challenges and what benefits organisations and rural communities gain from them leading research.
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11min
September 10, 2025 Rural Housing in County Durham
In this podcast, we spoke to our Rural Housing Enabler Susan Tron about rural housing in County Durham, including parish profiles, housing needs surveys and influencing housing development in your local area.
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10min
July 01, 2025 Third Sector Trends Study
In this podcast, we spoke to Professor Tony Chapman from Durham University about the Third Sector Trends study.

The Third Sector Trends Study is a long-standing study of the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and it aims to understand the different aspects of the VCSE sector’s structure and activity.

Have your say in the study here: http://bit.ly/4luLxZZ
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9min
May 16, 2025 Community Spaces Grant - Sherburn Hill Hub
We spoke to David Hall, trustee at Sherburn Hill Hub about how grant funding from the Community Spaces grant, a regional partnership funded by the National Lottery Community Fund helped improve their local community.
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6min
March 31, 2025 Volunteer Driver Campaign with Supportive
The role of a volunteer driver is a very rewarding position, providing transport for social journeys and health appointments for people in the local community but recruiting for the role can sometimes be challenging.

To help create awareness about the role, we spoke to Jack Ball, Volunteer Officer at Supportive about the main challenges they face in recruiting volunteer drivers, the benefits of the role and how volunteering impacts their service.
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5min
March 18, 2025 Sintons Solicitors: Legal Advice for Community Buildings
Following the launch of a new toolkit to help trustees navigate legal issues about property, we spoke to Tom Wills from Sintons Solicitors about legal advice for community buildings.
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9min
March 17, 2025 Village Halls Week 2025
This year's #VillageHallsWeek theme is celebrating, encouraging and supporting the efforts of volunteers who keep rural community buildings open.

We spoke to community halls consultant Louise Beaton about her new book "Halls for All: A History of Village Halls" which highlights the crucial role village halls play in rural communities.
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11min
January 14, 2025 County Durham Poverty Truth Commission
This podcast episode focuses on the County Durham Poverty Truth Commission. We chat to project coordinator Cathryn Gathercole and project worker Julie Gourley about the projects aims, what it has achieved so far and plans for the future.

You can read Julie's blogs here: https://www.durhamcommunityaction.org.uk/poverty-truth-commission-journey-journal
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7min
November 18, 2024 West Auckland Memorial Hall - Energy Efficiency
We spoke to trustees at West Auckland Memorial Hall, Sharon and George, about how the community buildings energy efficiency grant helped to improve their building and the impact it has had for their local community.

Through our ongoing support we have helped them identify sustainable energy efficiency measures and to secure necessary funding to make the memorial hall more energy efficient.
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9min

FAQs about Durham Community Action:

How many episodes does Durham Community Action have?

The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.