People’s organisations v. community groups
From time to time there’s a highly relevant posting on the Neighbourhoods blog from Kevin Harris. A new one is ‘The problem of scale: neighbourhoods and participation’ where he discusses the relevance of a presentation by Anthony Kelly of Oxfam Australia:
“too much of our UK community sector is getting sucked into the delivery service paradigm; and that we get into confusions because we look to establish participation at the same scale as service delivery. We somehow assume that the same values, terms of engagement and democratic style should apply.”