Updated Aug 2023
We are a small Community Interest Company founded in 2010. We work with other groups, organisations and individuals to help people who use health and social care services get better support. In 2022 we made our web site much smaller and simpler. We have just added an “SSL certificate” so it is now secure.
Local historian Liz Woolley is giving member of the local community another chance to see her exhibition of local history next week. As part of Oxford Open Doors, an exhibition exploring the fascinating history of St Ebbe’s and St Thomas’s will be on display at The Community Works, Frideswide Square, on Friday 13th and Saturday… Continue reading A tough but full-blooded area…
As most people who know us will know, we spent a busy four months from August 2023 working with the partners below to produce a Community Insight Profile for the City and County Councils. The final document (together with a summary and data pack produced by the Public Health team) is now live on the… Continue reading Oxford City Centre Insight Profile
…and forward to 2023 Well, it’s that time of year again. The turning seasons, this year amplified by a cold snap, and in our case the need to write a social impact report inevitably conspire to create a reflective mood. How have things moved forward over the past year, and what will the next cycle… Continue reading Looking back at 2022
A Route to Removing Conditionality in Adult Social Care? One of the highlights of 2019 for me was the Social Care Future (SCF) event in Birmingham. Held at the University, the discussions nevertheless included a wide range of people from some very different backgrounds, ranging from service providers and commissioners to people who use personal… Continue reading Universal Basic Services
Community Glue’s Experience. What We Liked About ‘Personalisation Jon and I started Community Glue because we wanted to support initiatives that gave people more say in their social and health care. In previous jobs, we had been frustrated by an approach to commissioning services that often paid tokenistic attention to the views of service users,… Continue reading The Move to Personalisation