Huw Thomas

YouTube video by Hywel Dda University Health Board Pan Fo’r Nos yn Hir | When the Night is Long

Diolch i bawb yn BIP Hywel Dda sy’n gweithio dros yr Wyl.

With thanks to everyone in Hywel Dda UHB who will be working this Christmas.

A beautiful video, worth watching, showing that our work never stops, even at Christmas.

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Absolutely love the Vollpension Café in Vienna. A social enterprise employing pensioners to mitigate loneliness and provide an extra income. And amazing food.

Fascinating insights from @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social at the HFMA annual conference this morning.
On top form as ever! Much to take away and reflect on.

"We don’t have to treat economic development and health creation as separate priorities"

Tom Lloyd Goodwin on our 4th #CWBConversation, w/ @benjaminbarr.bsky.social Jennifer Connolley @westyorkshireca.bsky.social and Rachel Laurence @thrivingplaces.bsky.social 🔗 cles.org.uk/blog/communi...

Whether you are Welsh or not, people in the UK need to be aware of Wales' treatment.

This is key. Every single U.K. government department has a negotiation with the treasury about their budgets except the devolved Governments. So our block grant is decided not on Wales’ needs but as an afterthought. Completely unacceptable and a key failure of the devolved settlement .

And I don’t accept it. I don’t accept it at all.

#Unitarian #Undodiaid #UU #UnitarianUniversalist

I had the pleasure of joining the @clesthinkdo.bsky.social webinar to discuss how Celtic nations are tackling key challenges using community wealth building approaches.

You can read more about the approaches taken by Celtic governments and communities here: cles.org.uk/blog/much-to...

Read about our recent community wealth building conversation on what we can learn from Scotland, Wales and Ireland - great discussion and wonderfully chaired by @johnhuwthomas.bsky.social

"An invigorating reminder that what small country governments lack in scale, they more than make up for in their ambition."

Sarah Evans' reflections on our #CWBConversations event on Celtic wealth building, ahead of her joining the CLES team in a few weeks time. 🔗 cles.org.uk/blog/much-to...

UK spending watchdog refuses to sign off government accounts [FREE TO READ] National Audit Office criticises ‘material and pervasive’ gaps in public sector audits

Ten years ago Eric Pickles gleefully abolished the Audit Commission, the state-run body that audited accounts and of Local Authorities.

Today the NAO refused to sign off Govt accounts because of massive audit backlog.

QED. 1/2

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“It’s the community, stupid”

“Cutting to the chase – ownership matters.. The more solutions are devised, financed, developed, managed & owned here, the more resilient (communities will) become to deal with whatever else is lurking around a corner.”

Me & @lydiagodden.bsky.social

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Voting Open: techUK’s Health and Social Care Council

www.techuk.org/resource/vot... Please vote for me and tell all your friends to do the same 📣 👍 😉

Rydym yn dathlu 125 o ddysgu Gwleidyddiaeth ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Dyma bapur arholiad cynnar o 1904…

Mae cwestiwn 9 yn *anfarwol*!

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We’re celebrating 125 years of teaching Politics at Cardiff Uni. Here’s an early exam paper from 1904…

You’re going to absolutely *love* question 9!

Image showing cover of report 'Cities and regions let's get started' along with small photos of some of the cities mentioned in the report.

Over 50 city & municipal governments are embedding the concepts and tools of Doughnut Economics in their strategies, policies and processes - check out how they are getting started with some fantastic peer-to-peer inspiration summed up in our new report.... doughnuteconomics.org/tools/cities...

Let me know how to vote!

Hear hear!

So much energy for change, so much innovation happening already, so much opportunity for us to grasp. Exciting times. Thanks @cwmpasceo.bsky.social, @helenisworking.bsky.social, @sarahlonglands.bsky.social and many more not on here yet!

Sometimes, good things all come at the same time. Last week, a conference in @s4c.bsky.social on procuring locally in Carmarthenshire; Monday a Wellbeing Economy Conference in Swansea; and yesterday a @clesthinkdo.bsky.social conversation across Celtic Nations on community wealth building.

“Tapping into what we once knew”

“A deeper wisdom of what success looks like”

@kateraworth.bsky.social connecting us to our past ways, our indigenous knowledge and practice.

#wecymru #wellbeingeconomics