“And again there was that sense of relationships being able to keep on giving and reconfigure themselves around new problems.”
Our CEO Clare Wightman has written a new blog for an independent network of social change activists known as ‘A Better Way’.
Many of the members, of which she is one, are from the voluntary sector but others are from different sectors. Their common vision is of helping to liberate people’s potential rather than writing them off as problems, difficult to reach localities and hard hit communities.
Clare’s latest blog is about services having their place but also their limits. What people need in life, she says, is other good people around them who can back them up, encourage, problem solve and find opportunities.
The outcome being that these people and networks of help are there when services can’t be.
It doesn’t mean that services can walk away and leave people to it. It means that this is the kind of help that flexes, reciprocates and strengthens in ways services can’t.
“It’s our way of creating ‘organisations without walls’ where people and solutions come first, not organisational identities and self interests.”