[OccupyComms] Webinar on Building Neighbourhood Support Networks - Tues 10th January

[Mark Barrett]

Hi again

The webinar, for anyone interested who missed it is at
https://www.youtube.com/embed/itrmzihiNzE

(NB it starts about 3.15 mins in - as at the beginning we were waiting
to get set up to livestream on Facebook)

On 5 January 2017 at 14:29, Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Making Neighbourhoods Matter
>
> Join us in this webinar where we look at how we can bring people together in
> neighbourhoods to recreate community and tackle the problems of isolation
> and alienation that many people experience.
>
> One salient feature of the modern, individualist, consumerist age is a rise
> in atomisation and the breakdown of our traditional local community fabric.
>
> Among the many negative consequences of this decline in neighbourhood
> sociability there is the well documented increase in the elderly and many
> others experiencing isolation, loneliness, limited care options and a range
> of related mental heath issues.
>
> This webinar is about a new group, Neighbourhood and Beyond which is working
> to counter this disempowering situation at the very local level. The group
> has a very simple agenda, which is to begin rebuilding the community fabric
> and pursuit of the common good by encouraging the setting up of lots of
> neighbourhood support networks.
>
> The webinar will be will be presented by Ros Lucas and Mark Barrett both of
> whom have already started working with their neighbours to take the idea
> forward) and will be in the form of a brief presentation and participatory
> discussion / Q&A.
>
> This webinar will be a good opportunity for participants to find out more
> about the initiative, and to look at the possibility of, and also the
> barriers to taking it forward in their own local neighbourhoods.
>
> https://app.webinarjam.net/register/20480/7d12cd6f91