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Episode 1: The Legacy of Ewanrigg’s We Will Campaign by Local Trust

In this episode of Don’t Get Any Ideas, Heather and George travel virtually to Cornwall to catch up with Jayne Downing to find out what the people of Par Bay did as part of Creative Civic Change. A poet herself, Jayne was a driving force behind ‘Poetry from Par Bay’ – a book created in 2020 as part of the Covid and Beyond Project with poetry from the local community. During lockdown Jayne teamed up with George to create a Cross-Pollination Poetry Open Mic Night that, on Zoom, united poets from Pay Bay and Corby.

Guests:
Jayne Downing, Artist

Hosts:
Heather Peak, Artist and Critical Friend
George Hill, Artist and Co-chair of Don’t Get Any Ideas

In this episode of Don’t Get any Ideas, Heather and George travel to
Stoke to visit the Portland Inn Project to learn about how to imagine
as a community what the next century might look like and whether
the Portland Inn Project is successful in it’s application to Arts
Council England to be one of it’s regularly funded organisations.

Guests:
Rebecca Davies, Artist
Anna Francis, Artist

Hosts:
Heather Peak, Artist and Critical Friend
George Hill, Artist and Co-chair of Don’t Get Any Ideas

In this episode of Don’t Get any Ideas, Heather and George travel to
East Marsh in Grimsby to meet Josie Moon, local resident,
community activist, writer, artist and choir leader. Tucked away in
the local market they discuss how Josie looks for the light in bleak times.

Guest:
Josie Moon, Community Activist, artist, writer and choir leader

Hosts:
Heather Peak, Artist and Critical Friend
George Hill, Artist and Co-chair of Don’t Get Any Ideas

In this episode of Don't Get Any Ideas, Heather and George travel to Walthamstow to visit William Morris Big Local who have working with local art group Wood Street Walls to discuss holding onto creative community spaces in London.

Guests:
Gabriel Edwards, Project Lead at William Morris Big Local
Georgia Bonfield, Program Manager at William Morris Big Local

Hosts:
Heather Peak, Artist and Critical Friend
George Hill, Artist and Co-chair of Don’t Get Any Ideas

For the last episode of series two of The community power podcast, we talk to the chair of Scotlands Bushbury Hill Big Local who was awarded an MBE last year for her outstanding service in and to the community.

She chats to Chris about her 11-year Big Local journey, including the difference between what she imagined she and her community would be able to achieve when they started compared to where they are today.

Read more about the work of Karen and her fellow 'pink ladies' here: https://localtrust.org.uk/news-and-stories/voices-of-big-local/the-pink-ladies-of-scotlands-and-bushbury-hill/

And for more resident-led Big Local stories, you can visit our website here: https://localtrust.org.uk/news-and-stories/voices-of-big-local/

The Community Power Podcast is brought to you by Local Trust, produced by Beth Lazenby and hosted by Chris Allen.