Link library: compassionate communities

Thinking of narratives for volunteer recruitment, I wonder how useful the concept of compassionate communities will be?

- Dying Matters: why we should develop compassionate communities?

- Compassionate communities: end-of-life care as everyone’s responsibility - article in QJM by the originator of compassionate communities, Professor Allan Kellehear

- Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: A national framework for local action 2015-2020, by the National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership of which the MND Association is a member. See in particular chapter 6 which is all about volunteers

- Blog post on Marie Curie about Prof Kellehear's ideas and its implications for their work.

Update: a couple of new links courtesy of Sue Muller

- Compassionate Inverclyde launches

- Bill's story - video explaning compassionate communities from Palliverse

Update The Second: similar issues from a slightly different angle - as a joint group of government officials and voluntary, community and social enterprise reps put forward an action plan for involving the sector in improving health, well-being and social care outcomes.  

See the VSCE Review website for more information.

Reading recommendations from 2018 so far

A quick round-up of the best books I've read so far this year.

At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails - Sarah Bakewell
The Honours - Tim Clare 
Walkaway - Cory Doctorow 
Normal - Warren Ellis
Winter's Tide - Ruthanna Emrys
Raven Stratagem - Yoon Ha Lee
The Will To Battle - Ada Palmer
Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson (review here)
Osama - Lavie Tidhar
A Night In The Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny

All genre fiction, except for Sarah Bakewell's overview of existentialism. And all very good, although not quite great enough to merit bold type. :)

The patron saint of Eurodance

Found art: author unknown but fond of Eiffel 65.

Useful charity links 8 June

Why self-care and collective well-being are crucial to winning change (MobLab) 
City of Dreams: report from a Brazilian climate change campaign mobilising popular input and support (MobLab)
Hardy Merriman offers a useful theoretical model for defining a movement (International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict)
A blueprint for distributed organising (MobLab)
Free download report from Outrageous Impact on charity innovation