In this episode we are joined by Rob Fountain, former CEO of Age UK and current Head of Strategic Partnerships at Gloucestershire VCS Alliance to talk about the challenges of heading up service-based organisations and how we need to go about re-defining the leadership and goals of services to better aid the people who need them.

You can follow Rob over on X (Twitter) or LinkedIn

Links:

TEDTalks

Cormac Russell - Sustainable Community Development

Hilary Cottam - Social Services Are Broken

Books 

John McKnight – ‘The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods’ 

John McKnight & Cormac Russell – ‘The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighbourhoods’ 

Hilary Cottam – ‘Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State’ 

Organisations/movements 

The Wigan Deal

Camerados

Nurture Development

Gloucester Community Building Collective

Other X (Twitter) Accounts:

@CormacRussell 

@HilaryCottam 

@ProfDonnaHall 

@MaffPotts