A summer of hope: UK’s third sector challenge anti-immigrant narratives

Group photograph of the New Narratives team and participants in the Folkestone Storytelling Lab, sitting and standing in front of a stage.

Six organisations in Kent ran community projects in summer 2024, from commissioning artistic work to offering language, mental health, and skills development. Written by Mahima Jain, this article was originally published on Medium, Jan 15, 2025 Aram Rawf is a community inclusion officer at Samphire, a Dover-based charity supporting asylum seekers waiting for the UK Home … Read more

Five lessons for meaningful conversations: learning from co-creation in design

In this blog post, I’ll share how you can create space for meaningful conversations, learned in the context of co-creation.

Lab4Living  is a living lab in Sheffield working alongside communities to develop solutions in design, healthcare and creative practices. I spent some time with Joe Langley, lead Research Fellow, and Ursula Ankeny, Design Researcher and PhD student, at the lab’s space in Sheffield city centre.