We have developed a series of podcasts featuring different guest speakers and topics to give you a flavour of the work carried out by Durham Community Action and the organisations we work with.
For Keeping your Child Safe in Sport Week (7th - 13th October), we spoke to Rowena Carr, Sport Welfare Coordinator at County Durham Sport about why creating awareness for child safety in sport is so important.
This podcast will discuss the development of a community research network in County Durham; which is a way of supporting local people to have an active role in research.
Interviews include: DCA's Community Partnerships Manager, Fiona Christian, co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action & Professor of Sociology at Durham University, Sarah Banks and artist and Derwent Valley AAP Chair, Lea McConnell.
We talked to Nuvowellbeing, Burnhope Community Centre and Brightwoods Forest School about the impact the funding for new social prescription activity in County Durham has had in their local community.
Durham Community Action and Building Self Belief reflect on the impact Good to Grow Week has made in County Durham and chat about the power of volunteering to increase community gardening in the local area of Benfieldside in Consett.
#VillageHallsWeek 2024 is celebrating everything village halls can do to 'go green'. In this podcast, we speak to Auckland Youth and Community Centre about their recent Investors in the Environment bronze accreditation and Croxdale Community Association about the impact of their community garden.
This podcast focuses on the Welcome Spaces Fund available to organisations in County Durham and the impact the fund has made to a local community building.
To celebrate Trustees' Week 2023, we have recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate the individual talents, viewpoints and experiences each trustee brings to their board.
This podcast focuses on the Cree Network that consists of 40 Cree groups that operate to support and promote the health and wellbeing of County Durham residents.
This podcast focuses on the power of volunteering, a reflection on Volunteers' Week and the Vision for Volunteering, a ten-year collaborative project designed to create a better future for volunteering.
This podcast focuses on energy efficiency and climate action within the voluntary and community sector.
This episode celebrates Social Prescribing Day and focuses on the role of social prescribing link workers in County Durham and their network.
This podcast celebrates Village Halls Week (23rd - 27th January); the theme of this year’s campaign will look at how village halls can provide warm, welcoming and inclusive spaces, something which is especially important as the country faces a cost-of-living crisis.
This podcast focuses on safeguarding within the voluntary and community sector in County Durham and the importance of training and safeguarding policies and procedures for staff and volunteers.
If you would like to get involved in our podcasts we would love to hear from you - please contact Katie Baggott by email
The specific views expressed by individuals in the content of our podcasts, case studies and other media are solely their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Durham Community Action or its associates.
