Durham Community Action: Recent Episodes
Katie Baggott
This is the Durham Community Action podcast, celebrating all things to do with the voluntary and community sector in County Durham.
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Listen to our latest podcast episode, celebrating 40 years of #VolunteersWeek.
Interviews include: NAVCA's CEO, Maddy Desforges & CEO of local community resource TCR The Hub, Rachel Tweddle.
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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.
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This year's #VillageHallsWeek is celebrating everything village halls can do to ‘go green’.
We spoke 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.
Interviewees include: Business Development Manager at Auckland Youth and Community Centre John Wiseman & Croxdale Community Association trustee and treasurer Lynne McIvor.
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This podcast episode focuses on the welcome spaces fund, a fund available to organisations in County Durham to host free weekly community spaces that aims to keep people warm, allow people to socialise and also receive advice and support.
We will discuss what welcome spaces are, how you can apply for the £3,000 grant and the impact the fund has made to a local community building in County Durham.
Interviewees include: Naomi Stevens, Senior Fund Manager at County Durham Community Foundation and Kath Merrington, development worker at Ferryhill Ladder Centre.
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This podcast episode celebrates Trustees’ Week as we celebrate the individual talents, viewpoints and experiences each trustee brings to their board.
We will discuss why having a diverse board of Trustees makes such an impact, the importance of demystifying myths surrounding the role of a Trustee and advice if you’re thinking about becoming a Trustee.
Interviewees include: Jan Worters (Chair of Durham Community Action), Elaine Kilgannon, Linda Bird and Sarah Banks (Trustees at Durham Community Action), Emily Burns (Trustee at County Durham Community Foundation) and Terry Murray (Trustee at Citizens House).
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Durham Community Action chat to Graham Easterlow at East Durham Trust about the Horden Minewater Project.
A former County Durham coal mine could be used to grow food and support local businesses in Horden. The feasibility study will explore various ways to use heat from the mine water and examine the infrastructure already installed.
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This episode of the Durham Community Action 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.
We chatted to service users at RT Projects, Just for Women and Dene Valley Community Partnership about what the Cree means to them and the impact it has had on their health and wellbeing.
Durham Community Action chat to Chris Connolly, chairman of Whorlton Village Hall about how the Hallmark process, community building energy efficiency grant and help from a local trade company has made an impact to their village hall and local community.
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This episode of the Durham Community Action 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.
We chatted to our volunteering specialist Charlotte Linton about the vision for volunteering and Samantha Townsend, volunteer coordinator at Auckland Youth and Community Centre about the impact volunteers give to their organisation and the power of volunteering.
This podcast focuses on energy efficiency and climate action within the voluntary and community sector.
We chatted to Nathaniel Spain, Going Green Together Project Coordinator at VONNE about their climate action initiative and Heather Liddle, Trustee at Nettlesworth Community Centre about how the community building energy efficiency grant benefitted their centre to help improve their heating systems.
In this audio case study, we spoke to Helen Ward from Jack Drum Arts about their Winter Light Parade. Through the help of crowdfunding, Jack Drum Arts raised over £14,000 to produce their local cultural event.
Listen to Helen chat about the benefits of crowdfunding and how you can start.
This episode celebrates Social Prescribing Day, an annual celebration of social prescribing, recognising link workers, local community groups and regional and national organisations which support people’s health and wellbeing.
We chat to DCA's health and wellbeing co-ordinator Susan Garrett about social prescribing in County Durham and social prescribing link worker for Claypath and University Faith Walkwell about her role and the social prescribing link workers network.
This week 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.
We chat to Naomi Stevens from County Durham Community Foundation about their warm spaces fund and Lynne from Fishburn Youth and Community Centre who has recently benefitted from the fund in order to create a warm space for their local community.
More details about the fund and charter can be found here:
Warm Spaces Fund - County Durham Community Foundation (cdcf.org.uk)
Warm Spaces Charter - Durham County Council
Durham Community Action chat to cree manager Lestryne Tweedy at Just for Women about their organisation and how the co-op local community fund has helped their centre. We also spoke to Just for Women volunteer Wendy about how volunteering has made a powerful impact in her life.
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This podcast focuses on safeguarding within the voluntary and community sector.
We have chatted to our volunteering manager Abby Thompson about safeguarding in the voluntary and community sector in County Durham and Danny Mulholland from drug and alcohol recovery service 'Humankind' about what safeguarding means to their organisation and the importance of training and safeguarding policies & procedures for staff and volunteers.
Durham Community Action chat to Paula Nelson, manager at Shildon Alive about the work that they do for their local community, the importance of their community food hub and how the advice and support they received from DCA helped them to improve their organisation.
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Durham Community Action chat to Liam Weatherill from Wheels 2 Work County Durham about how the advice and support they received from DCA helped them to gain funding for their organisation.
We also chat to DCA community development officers Tracy & Susan about community development training workshops and top tips for professional fundraising.
Durham Community Action chat to Chris Pratt at Hunwick Cricket Club about how the advice and support they received from DCA helped them to improve their community building for the local community.
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This podcast focuses on the Community Growing and Food Network at Durham Community Action.
We have chatted to our Community Development Officer Lyndsey Hocking who talks about what the network is about and how to get involved, Lucy Donner at Great Aycliffe Garden Guild about the benefits of the network and Joanne Iceton from Little Chefs Big Chefs about their new eco-market project and how they found their funding journey.
This podcast celebrates the success of Volunteers Week and gives an insight into volunteering within County Durham.
We have chatted to our volunteering specialist Charlotte Linton who talks about the support we give to volunteers and organisations in County Durham and to Andrea Emerson at Durham County Carers Support about why volunteering is so important to the local community, the benefits of volunteering and their various volunteering opportunities.
Durham Community Action chat to trustee Karen Dodds at community building Dipton Jubilee Centre about how the advice and support they received from DCA helped them to improve their centre during lockdown.
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We are delighted to be launching our third podcast to create awareness about the Hallmark award. Hallmark is a quality standard scheme for village halls and community buildings and aims to support, establish and reward good practice and encourage improvement in established customs and procedures.
We have chatted to our Community Development Officer Isla and ACRE Village Halls Manager Deborah Clarke who talk about the history of the Hallmark award and why its important, and to St Paul’s Centre in Spennymoor about how they found the process and its benefits.
We are delighted to be launching our second podcast to celebrate Village Halls Week. The theme of this year’s campaign is to challenge halls to do something different and innovate for the future.
We will give you an insight into what is involved in the work community buildings do in County Durham.
We have chatted to our Community Development Officers Tracy and Isla who talk about the support, advice and guidance Durham Community Action give to community buildings in the county, and to representatives of Framwellgate Moor Youth and Community Centre, Blackhall Community Centre and Dipton Jubilee Hall about the ways they are ‘innovating for the future’ this Village Halls Week.
We are delighted to be launching our first ever podcast to celebrate Trustees' Week.
We will give you an insight into what is involved in being a trustee for DCA. We have chatted to our Chair of the Board of Trustees Jan Worters and Trustee Linda Bird who talk about their involvement with DCA and the wider voluntary and community sector in County Durham.
Listen and find out why they became involved with DCA, their roles within the board and their views on the future of DCA.