Same Skies newsletter #04: Community pop-ups, our new report on graduate retention, and an MBE

This newsletter was first published by email in Autumn 2023. If you'd like our next newsletter hot off the press to your inbox, please join …

Newsletter #03: Frontline housing, StoptheSCANdal, and Community Theatre

2023 has been a rollercoaster of a year so far for West Yorkshire and the country writ large. Politically, a new Prime Minister in Rishi …

Newsletter #01: Community Arts, Alternative Housing, and the Importance of Planners

Hi everyone,

My name's George, I'm a freelance writer and tutor, and I've recently been working with Same Skies, focusing particularly on participation in political …

Planning and Housing - An alternative approach: Community and collaboration across boundaries

The UK has a housing crisis, and here in West Yorkshire, with an area covered by five local authorities and around 2.5 million people …

Local shops as places for connecting

I have always had a socialist bent, from that young child being swiftly pulled along past a homeless person by my mum, as she explains …