cadence comments about hoodie goodie buddy

24 Mar 2011

Green Budget? For the kids?

Was the Budget yesterday green? Well, not obviously when the rabbit out of the hat (see Steve Bell today) was a reduction in the tax on vehicle fuel. The delight on the Coalition front bench when this was announced did not sit easily with anyone who hoped the Lib Dems would bring some green sense to the government ... more

14 Jan 2010

Pioneer community pathfinders (not Thick of it)

The Home Office announced this week 'Pioneer communities sought for new neighbourhood agreements'. They want 'communities to step forward to lead the fight against crime and anti-social behaviour. Ministers are looking for ten trailblazing areas to pioneer Neighbourhood Agreements on community safety and justice between police, councils and residents. The Pathfinders will require police, councils and other agencies to agree service standards with local residents - and enable the residents to hold them to account'. So these places will be 'pioneers', trailblazers' and 'pathfinders' ... there is no mention of the 4th sector, but do the press offices watch the Thick of it, where they have parodied such initiatives and language ... more

6 Jan 2010

Let it snow?

How does a decent snowfall change behaviour? It does seem to liberate adults to play with their kids. Sledging and snowballing are things the whole family can enjoy. People are walking who never normally do, are they enjoying it? For once children are allowed to play on the road. The Prime Minister has called for neighbours to look out for each other ... do they really need asking ... more

14 Dec 2009

Hoodie, goodie, buddy - mapping feelings and more

Cadence's Hoodie, goodie, project, funded by JRF is making good progess. The videos of the young people at the park bench are done and going live early in the New Year. The mapping work by Sheffield University (along London/Abbeydale road, Sheffield) is looking interesting and the emotion mapping has been done ... more

25 Oct 2009

Emotion mapping - Sharrow school

This week saw our first emotion mapping workshop for the Hoodie, goodie, buddy project. It was fanatastic! Incredibly interesting and thought provoking. We are trying to take it all in and will provide info to participants soon and then give some feedback here on the website and the blog ... more

9 Oct 2009

Hoodie, goodie, buddy - Broken Society

Cadence's Hoodie, goodie, project, funded by JRF is investigating how people's perceptions of other people's behaviour in their neighbourhood is or is not influenced by the way they tend to move around. Do car drivers catch a glimpse of youths hanging about and jump to the conclusion that they are seeing ASBO-desrving behaviour? Do people who mainly walk feel more threatened or less through closer contact? Has Brtiain's society partly become 'broken' because of the growth in car use and ownership ... more

1 Sep 2009

Hoodie, goodie, buddy filming

Cadence's Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded Hoodie, goodie, buddy project included an innovative strand looking at perceptions of young people's behaviour depending on travel mode. If three kids in hoodies are messing about on a bench and someone drives past do they suspect anti-social behaviour ... more

9 Jul 2009

Hoodie, goodie, buddy and benches

Cadence's Hoodie, goodie, project, funded by JRF, stemmed from an event about walking and cycling research. We found ourselves making the point that modal shift (cars to bikes and foot) may well have public health and environmental advantages, but there may be bigger less obvious community benefits. Could neighbourhoods with more street activity like walking and cyling (and children's play, for example) be places where young people hanging around on park benches is seen as a good thing, rather than a threat ... more

1 Apr 2009

Connected Communities - Hoodie, goodie, buddy

Cadence's, JRF funded, Hoodie, goodie, buddy project seems to strike a chord with people working in a number of areas. The RSA's Connected Communities project is an interesting and good example that aims to 'explore how social capital and social networks can be better understood and used to deliver the communities we want and need' ... more

17 Mar 2009

Fear of youth - Hoodie, goodie, buddy

During Cadence's work on youth provision, play and youth justice sensible people have often reminded us that youth have been seen as a problem throughout history. They often refer to newspaper articles from 100 years ago. Today psychologist and TV presenter Tanya Byron trumps them all with a reference to youth problems in Egypt 6,000 years ago ... more