Hia I’m Kitt. I’m based in beautiful Newcastle upon Tyne. I describe the way I work as: mess making as social glue. I’m a person who does making alongside other people.
What unites people across the North and the UK? In a time that has been described as one filled with divisions – between Remain and Leave, young and old, cities and small towns/villages, ‘white collar’ and ‘blue collar’, North and South – what are the principles and ideas that could genuinely bring us together?
Octavia Hill, a visionary in her time with her mission to ‘make lives noble, homes happy and family life good’. A message I fear means very little to some organisations today.
Leeds’ first Festival of Kindness, Compassion and Wellbeing launches online on Sunday 6th September. There's a whole week of free events you can watch from the comfort of your own home.
Throughout July we held a series of online Digital ThinkIn’s in partnership with Tortoise. The final in our series looked at Universal Basic Income in a conversation titled ‘Should the North try a Universal Basic Income?’.
The ‘levelling up’ of the North is long overdue. Despite the vital contribution that the North makes to UK economy, culture and society, the North has been held back by a lack of investment for decades.
Read our latest guest blogs here or search for them by subject on the menu below. We are always looking for guest contributors for our blogs so if you’ve got something to say please email blogs@peoplespowerhouse.org.uk with a brief synopsis of what you’d like to write about and how it relates to our our five pillars of change.
* These blogs are a collection of thoughts and opinions from people living or working in the North. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the author, and not necessarily to the People's Powerhouse.
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