Mustafa Korel speaks about his work training young people in civic participation as well as his own experiences as a campaigner during his school days. 

Produced and edited by Rose Gibbs for Keep It Complex

2017

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Room to Heal supports refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced torture and human rights abuses. At the heart of their work lies the cultivation of a healing community through which members re-establish trust, address the trauma they have experienced and come out of isolation. Isabella Mighetto speaks about that work in this short podcast. The image shows Culpeper Community garden - one of the gardens where the members work together.

Produced and edited by Rose Gibbs for Keep It Complex

Room to Heal - A therapeutic community.WAV

Xenia is building relationships between migrant women, with English-speaking women living in the UK to form a more understanding and kind community. Founding members Theodora Cadbury and Ionna Korfiati speak about Xenia women in this short pod cast.

Produced and Edited by Rose Gibbs for Keep It Complex

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Community leader Claude 'Hopper' Hendrickson talks about the housing crisis, race, riots and Frontline Self Build - a self build project where he and 12 other unemployed men built a street from scratch, learning the skills along the way. 

Produced and edited by Rose Gibbs for Keep It Complex

The Men Who Built A Street - Frontline Self Build, Leeds.WAV

In the summer of 2011 after the police shooting of Mark Duggan communities across the UK rioted, but  Chapel Town, Leeds home of community leader Claude 'Hopper' Hendrickson did not. Here he talks about race, riots and the youth work he has done in that community over the last 20 years.

Produced and edited by Rose Gibbs for Keep It Complex

Riots and Youth Work.WAV

Housing has come to be seen as an investment rather than a place for people to live, house prices have lost all contact with people's salaries, and so called affordable housing is not affordable for most people. With so much consumer spending based on the confidence of home owners that their property's price will increase our economy is hugely dependant on maintaining this trajectory. Here economist Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson co-director of the Women's Budget Group explains the economics behind our current housing crisis and its impact on those who most need safe, secure housing.

Produced and edited by Rose Gibbs for Keep It Complex