Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Meg Allen, Helen Spandler, Yvonne Prendergast and Lynn Froggett)

Year of publication: 2015

Focusing on a case study of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, the report identifies factors that may inhibit or encourage kindliness in communities. These includes:

  • Making kindness palatable with maintenance of personal independence and dignity meaning people were more likely to ask for help
  • Nurturing bonds of individuals within the community and across different sections of the community
  • Creating a shared myth to unify people around common interests
  • Building common causes
  • Hubs of helping with an identified focal point for people to share information and make contact with others
  • Third spaces created for people to come into daily informal contact to promote sociability and trust
  • Creating kinder economies through social enterprises

Content type: Anchor institutions

Tags: Report

Landscapes of helping: Kindliness in neighbourhoods and communities

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