Katy Oglethorpe

CAMPAIGN WIN! Since our launch, we’ve campaigned for a Community Right to Buy. Today, the Government has committed to implementing this policy. 🥳

Well done to everyone involved in the campaign. This is the beginning of a community power moment!
www.right-here.org/devolution-w...

17 photos of Spellow Library parade shows Liverpool at its best The parade and symbolic light switch-on marks the re-opening of the library after it was vandalised in riots earlier this year

From the absolute worst to the absolute best of our communities. Two men torched this Liverpool library last summer. Now the community (with help from @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social) have raised money to rebuild it and light up the streets. 🤩🌠

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

The huge success of a mixed-discipline team at Wirral Council could form the model for a revival of Total Place-style place-based budgets, writes @katoglet.bsky.social.

Read more about how Cradle to Career has transformed outcomes for families in North Birkenhead. https://buff.ly/48Ia20D

It's easy to say public services are broken, but harder to suggest how to fix them.

That's why stories like Cradle to Career are important. They are a model of transformed social care works - hyperlocal, joined-up & people-centred. And they've changed the lives of so many families for the better.

‘Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​’: Rebecca Solnit on living in dark times We may be living through times of unprecedented change, but in uncertainty lies the power to influence the future. Now is not the time to despair, but to act

"Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power, that there’s no reason to act, that you can’t win. Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/15/rebecca-solnit-hope-in-the-dark-n…

I am watching it too! The set looks budget & a lot of nervy body language. But otherwise I am staying tuned in, at least it doesn't have the constant Newsround style explainers looks the BBC.

Should have a better gender balance though.

A pleasure to host HWDI today - rare to come across a public services intervention with such clear impact on people's lives - children staying at home because of therapy that comes in at an early & focuses on whole family.

(Check out more here: bridgesoutcomespartnerships.org/work/young-p...)

Wrote about need for people to be genuinely included in entire planning process - moving beyond the tick-box culture that breeds NIMBYism.

To coincide with @wearenewlocal.bsky.social new research www.newlocal.org.uk/publications...

(& am experiencing special pain of the big face op-ed pic 🫣)

What if we regenerated for the ground up? With the insights & expertise of people who live & work in the places?

Pleasure to work on this new research from @wearenewlocal.bsky.social that aims to bust the myth we're an island of NIMBYs - instead it's a planning system that adversarial by design.

Isn't this a fucking amazing cover though. I remember seeing my mum reading this in the 90s and being like woah. Insides also incredible. Sorry I broke the challenge rule.

I feel like I am 14 doing this but booky listy things bring me to a place of ✌️, so -

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order - no explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#bookchallenge #booksky💙📚 1/20

People just love making a massive noise about being introverts these days.

Ironic.

Hello, Dolly! review – Imelda Staunton plays the matchmaker with stunning results For all its Broadway dazzle and gags, this musical’s story of midlife bereavement and a second chance at love carries intense feeling

Hello Dolly with Imelda Staunton was the most heart-busting, feel-good beautiful spectacle of a musical, making you want to grab life and live it. All this despite not one second of the mess of a plot making sense.

www.theguardian.com/stage/articl...

Yeah I guess having two big hols next to each other would do that. I am reassured, thanks.

Oh REALLY?! I feel like Americans just own all the seasons, popular imagination wise at least, by virtue of telly. Cept pancake day.

Omg the pressure to keep sharing these seasonal observations 😬

Hot (mild) take: People who say Autumn = fave season have actually been conned by American idea of 'Fall'. Sunny days, crisp leaves, back to school in yellow bus with your pumpkin tootsie roll.

British Autumn = the grey purgatory that is beginning outside, right now. This can be nobody's favourite.

Urgh agreed. They drive me mad, especially with a pram. Will they be though?