Stories
Community Kitchen Stories From the Volunteers Who Cook
Most of us walk past the church hall or community centre on a weekday evening and never see the steam on the windows.
Community stories and profiles writer
Ruth has spent years documenting the work of volunteers, grassroots organisers and unsung local figures across the UK. She believes the most important stories are the ones happening on ordinary streets, and she writes to make sure they are not overlooked.
Stories
Most of us walk past the church hall or community centre on a weekday evening and never see the steam on the windows.
Stories
Plenty of people have thought about volunteering at their local radio station and then talked themselves out of it.
Stories
Plenty of men reach retirement, lose a partner or move to a new town and discover that their entire social life used to run...
Inspiration
Most households own a drill that gets used for about 13 minutes in its whole life, and most streets have a dozen of them...
Inspiration
Most adults decided long ago that they cannot sing, usually because a teacher moved them to the back row when they were nine.
Local Action
Last winter a woman on Marlow Road knocked on 140 doors to save the bus stop outside the sheltered housing at the end of her...