In this guest blog, Susan Prior, Chief Executive Officer at Triple A (All About Autism), gives us a ‘flourishing focussed’ look at Autism, and why its important to understand what empowers autistic individuals to thrive and be accepted as their authentic selves. Anyone who knows me well will roll their eyes if I mention lived-experience […]

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‘The best place to start when helping people is (focusing on) what’s strong within them and their communities and not with what’s wrong.’ Cormac Russell, Sustainable Community Development.   In Mid Copeland there is much of ‘what’s strong’ to focus on and build upon. I’ve been doing quite a bit of work in Thornhill over […]

One of our Community Co-researchers, Becky, discusses their background and motivation, and explains their research topic – exploring why informal carers experience poor sleep. Could you do your job if you were woken randomly several times a night to complete strenuous or complex tasks? That’s exactly what a lot of informal carers are having to […]