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By NOW on 27th February 2020

Record-Breaking Day of Repairs Proves Good for Wellbeing

The Big Fix 2020, which happened on 15th February 2020, brought reuse and repair to the attention of the wider public across the UK, and helped increase awareness of a more sustainable and collaborative lifestyle. The initiative was a national

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By Mirella Ferraz on 27th January 2020

Britain’s Biggest Repair Cafe Encourages Sharing and Repairing

On 15th February towns and cities across the country will take part in the Big Fix – Britain’s Biggest Day of Repair. In Totnes, Devon, where Network of Wellbeing (NOW) is based, we’ll co-host a local Big Fix to support

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By Roger Higman on 30th October 2019

How Do We Build Community Resilience in Austere Times?

What can we do to help communities become resilient in the face of austerity? NOW’s Director, Roger Higman reports from a recent study tour of Gloucester. How can communities build resilience in austere times? This may seem an odd question

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By Tracy Cheesman on 6th June 2019

Twinning UK Towns For Wellbeing

With Brexit looming and many small towns suffering job losses, high street decline and low community motivation, Carnegie UK Trust stepped in to establish the UK’s first domestic town twinning programme. In this webinar, Jennifer Wallace shares stories of how

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By NOW on 24th February 2019

What Could A City of Compassion and Wellbeing Look…

NOW’s Josh Malkin was one of the team behind Exploring Common Ground, an event promoting a city-wide Festival of Compassion & Wellbeing in Leeds. He explains here how the group started and its progress towards The Leeds Festival of Compassion

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By NOW on 21st February 2019

ShareFest Brings People Together to Share, Repair, Swap and…

In partnership with Shareable and the Share Shed – A Library of Things, the Network of Wellbeing hosted the first ShareFest Totnes, in the south of England, which brought together over 800 people to celebrate sharing, repairing, swapping and making. To find out more, visit here.

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By Mirella Ferraz on 7th December 2018

ShareFest brings people together to share, repair, swap and…

In partnership with Shareable and the Share Shed – A Library of Things, the Network of Wellbeing hosted the first ShareFest Totnes, in the south of England, which brought together over 800 people to celebrate sharing, repairing, swapping and making. This

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By NOW on 16th October 2018

When We Forget Our Values, We Lose Our Way:…

“Values are like fingerprints… you leave them over everything you do” Elvis Presley Values are the things that are important to us. They are our motivators, our drivers, the passion in our hearts and the reason we do the things

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By Mirella Ferraz on 8th October 2018

Buy Less, Share More: ShareFest Celebrates Collaboration and Creativity

We don’t need to own more stuff to make us happy; in fact, research shows that the more materialistic we become, the more miserable we get. Sharing, on the other hand… Sharing can help to meet some of our material

Guest post by Carnegie UK Trust

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By Carnegie UK Trust on 13th June 2018

Community Planning: Overcoming Challenges, Supporting Each Other

The Carnegie UK Trust has announced the participants of our Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project. The Community Planning Partnerships working in the following local authority areas were selected to receive financial and in-kind support from the Trust for the

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Supporting Greater Wellbeing for All: A City Wide Approach

Share Shed Totnes: Sharing Uni-Cycles, Guitars & Conversations!

Frome’s Economy: From Blind Growth to Wellbeing

Record-Breaking Day of Repairs Proves Good for Wellbeing

Britain’s Biggest Repair Cafe Encourages Sharing and Repairing

How Do We Build Community Resilience in Austere Times?

Twinning UK Towns For Wellbeing

What Could A City of Compassion and Wellbeing Look…

ShareFest Brings People Together to Share, Repair, Swap and…

ShareFest brings people together to share, repair, swap and…

When We Forget Our Values, We Lose Our Way:…

Buy Less, Share More: ShareFest Celebrates Collaboration and Creativity

Community Planning: Overcoming Challenges, Supporting Each Other

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