This document contains information about Nurture Development, including their contact information for UK and Irish offices. It also contains summaries of different approaches and principles for community development, including using the gifts and assets of local residents, growing social movements, identifying community needs and strengths, and moving from a helping to a community building approach. The document emphasizes making connections rather than conversions, discovery over delivery, and focusing on community strengths rather than weaknesses. It encourages working with and by communities rather than just for or to them.

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Nurture Development
UK Office
2.2 Montpellier House
Montpellier Drive
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
GL50 1TY
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1242 223 877
Nurture Development
Irish Office
Nurture Development
91 Bird Avenue
Clonskeagh
Dublin 14
Ireland
Tel: +353 87 928 0998
http://nurturedevelopment.org/
@NurtureDev
info@nurturedevelopment.org

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3. Kulin

4. Six Building Block
• Gifts, Skills and Passions of local residents
• The power of local associations
• The resources of institutions
• The environmental assets
• The economic resources
• The cultural assets (stories of the place)

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6. Europe-
wide
Heatwave
August, 2003 -70,000
heat-related deaths

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8. How to grow a movement
How to grow a movement

9. How to grow a movement
1. Keep it mother-sized
2. Be clear what you are for
3. Find a border hound!
How to grow a movement

10. How to grow a movement
1. Heckle from the rooftops
2. What would your grandmother do?
3. What harm will my helping do to
community?
Three nuggets - Mendelsohn

11. “It is a misuse of our
power to take
responsibility for solving
problems that belong to
others.”
(Peter Block)

12. ©CormacRussell
ABCD Institute, 2013
Glass
half
full

13. Classic needs map
©CormacRussell
ABCD Institute, 2013
Racial tension/hate crimes High crime rates. Significant
fear among older people
High levels of ADHD
Smoking
related
Heart disease
Respiratory
difficulties
Obesity across
The life course
High levels of drug and
Alcohol use.
High unemployment Poor educational attainment
Poor housing/environmental issues
High
morbidity
Anti social
behaviour
Gender
inequality

14. ©CormacRussell
ABCD Institute, 2013
Many of our
solutions are
not fit for
purpose

16. Beyond Helping
Community Building

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19. To For
With By

20. Take Away(s)
• Connections not conversions
• Discovery not delivery
• What’s Strong, not wrong.

21. Contact me:
cormac@nurturedevelopment.org