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Lessons from Lockdown<\/h3>\n

Over the months ahead, we\u2019ll be using this dedicated Transform Communities<\/em>\u00a0page to host a discussion\u00a0about the impact of\u00a0Covid-19 and the lockdown on the various\u00a0communities that we all belong to – a discussion focused on\u00a0how notions of community have been questioned, re-assessed, strengthened and found wanting in recent months, and on how we might use this experience to build a different future.<\/p>\n

We want to hear your views on how ideas and strategies\u00a0developed during the lockdown are\u00a0likely to become embedded in our day-to-day societal values and practice after the virus has passed. We want to understand how notions of ‘community’ and ‘society’ differ in different settings: rural, urban, suburban, advantaged or disadvantaged, on or off-line, and what we might learn from each other in this respect. At one level, with the Prime Minister amongst its victims, COVID-19 has been a great leveller; at another, it has had a far<\/em> greater impact on some communities than others: the elderly, the socio-economically disadvantaged, communities of colour, those on the (newly redefined) ‘key worker’ frontline.<\/p>\n

The question that we pose is simple, but the answers complex and multiple:\u00a0How might\u00a0the experience of Covid-19\u00a0and the associated lockdown drive change in the various on and off-line communities that we belong to?\u00a0We might find ourselves in\u00a0these\u00a0communities by choice, locality or birth.\u00a0These might be communities of residence or\u00a0neighbourhood, communities of interest or\u00a0professionalism, \u00a0communities of ethnicity\u00a0or\u00a0faith, communities of age\u00a0or\u00a0social class, communities of gender or\u00a0sexual identity. Critically,\u00a0we want the discussion hosted here to explore how we might,\u00a0as\u00a0stakeholders in these multiple communities,\u00a0enlist the support of peers, community leaders and policymakers in\u00a0driving and reshaping change.<\/p>\n

To this end, please give us your\u00a0feedback on the pieces that are posted, and contact us if you\u2019d like to join the debate by offering a post yourself. We\u2019re happy to re-post blogs first published elsewhere, provided that we have permission to do so. In particular, we\u2019re keen to capture voices from a variety of sources, especially\u00a0from those embedded in those communities most\u00a0often ignored in policy debates.<\/p>\n

For those of you with a particular interest in education, we’ve already launched a similar page at TransformEducation.org.uk<\/a>. We have also launched TransformOrganisations.org.uk<\/a> in which we explore the actual and likely impact of Covid-19 on various aspects of organisational behaviour. <\/p>\n

In the weeks ahead,\u00a0watch out for the launch of a series of related\u00a0pages exploring how the lessons of lockdown might inform and transform<\/em> practice in other areas of public life, including politics, health and social care, and leisure. There are few positives to draw from the kind of pandemic that we are currently experiencing but maybe, just maybe, harnessing the lessons from lockdown<\/strong> for our communities\u00a0is one such positive, and an opportunity that we have a responsibility to grasp.<\/em><\/p>\n

A series of blogs on the nature of\u00a0community, post Covid-19<\/h3>\n
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\r\n Impetus: the times are a-changing, but will they change us?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\r\n

In this Transform Communities launch blog, social entrepreneur Michelle Lawrence - founding Director at Link Up UK, and co-founder of the Cohesion and Integration Network, Belong - explores the importance of 'impetus' in creating the conditions in which community divisions can be overcome. Having worked in the field of cohesion for many years, Michelle has witnessed the role that impetus can play in challenging ideas about the 'other' and asks whether the Covid-19 pandemic has provided an impetus around which we can all unite.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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