Jul 4Weeknotes 27th June to 1st July 2022: Following the trailsSecond week in the National Park City, and I’m starting to follow some interesting trails and beginning to recognise the interesting flora and fauna. One thing I do know already. We can’t make London a National Park City — only the people of London can make that happen. For this…Weeknotes3 min read
Jun 24Week one: Exploring the London National Park City“National Park City — that sounds amazing! What is it?” A good question, and one that I’ve been asked a few times as I come to the end of my first week. Let’s start by breaking it down. Close your eyes. Think of the phrase National Park. …National Park City4 min read
Jun 22I’m the new Executive Director of the National Park City Foundation!I’m very excited to let you know that I have just been appointed as the first Executive Director of the National Park City Foundation, and London National Park City, just ahead of the third anniversary of London becoming the first National Park City this July. I’m joining a wonderful team…National Park City4 min read
May 4Becoming Crew: learning to think how nature worksI’ve just recently completed a wonderful six month peer learning marathon hosted by Mr Spaceship Earth himself Dan Burgess. This was part of a structured programme from Enrol Yourself (now known as Huddlecraft), with each group led by one individual who brings together around a dozen peers who together spend…Huddlecraft5 min read
Nov 24, 2021New behaviours for repowering democracyThis is the third post in a series of three originally published on mySociety.org introducing some of the strategic thinking we’ve been doing recently at mySociety. In the first post in this series I introduced our new focus around repowering democracy, in the second post I outlined how we think…6 min read
Nov 24, 2021Three shifts we’ll make at mySociety, to repower democracyThis is the second post in a series of three originally published on mySociety.org introducing some of the strategic thinking we’ve been doing recently at mySociety. …4 min read
Nov 24, 2021The need to repower democracyThis is the first in a series of three posts originally published on mySociety.org introducing some of the strategic thinking we’ve been doing recently at mySociety. This post outlines why we think we need to repower democracy in order to contribute towards mitigating the most serious crises facing society. Over…6 min read
Apr 10, 2019Weeknote — 10 April 2019I’m writing this on the train from London on my way to day two of the Skoll World Forum, a global gathering of around 1,200 social entrepreneurs in Oxford. It’s a fascinating conference and a pretty remarkable (and privileged) group of people, but also a little overwhelming with the backdrop…Climate Change4 min read
Oct 14, 2016Three great jobs at mySociety in our Better Cities practiceEarlier this year we tweaked our strategy to better align our commercial work with our charitable projects. We’re now looking to hire a couple of experienced and motivated individuals to help us really turn up the heat on this approach. Our work at mySociety covers three practice areas; Freedom of…Civictech3 min read
Published in mySociety.org·May 9, 2016Sadiq: here’s your chance to transform London into Civic Tech CityA few thoughts for the new Mayor of London — Congratulations to Sadiq Khan: London has a new mayor. After 8 years with a mayor asleep at the wheel, we finally have the chance to see what can really be done when the city’s elected head grasps the nettle of leadership and decides to get things done. The one thing…Civictech3 min read
