The Disruption Diary
Below you will find a collection of diary entries from a range of voices exploring all things systems change and capturing their experiences of various systems associated with tough times. If you have something to say or would like to contribute to this page then please don’t hesitate to get in touch
Place-based working: a trauma-informed approach
By Mayday Trust CEO Alex Fox and Platfform's Head of Connections and Change, Oliver Townsend. Place-based working: a trauma-informed approach
Becoming Open Systems
By Alex Fox, CEO of Mayday Trust. Becoming Open Systems Dr Jean Boulton of Bath University observed at a Northumbria
Putting relationships first
In this blog, Relationships Project founder David Robinson, and Alex Fox, chief executive of Mayday Trust, reflect on the role
Good old fashioned support work
Good old-fashioned support work: a rose-tinted myth, a thought exercise, or a template for the future? After a successful and
Through the eyes of a PTS Coach
Through the eyes of a PTS Coach By Meg Forader, a PTS Coach for Mayday Trust. Working in a strengths-based
Good intentions aren’t always enough
Good Intentions aren’t always enough. By Grant Campbell, Head of Partnerships & Consulting at Homeless Network Scotland. The growing
#HousingMattersWales
By Oliver Townsend, Head of Partnerships and Practice at Platfform. #HousingMattersWales We are trying to do things differently in Platfform,
Natasha Almond discusses Homeless Bound
Natasha Almond from the Good Organisation writes about Homeless Bound (Coterminous CIC, 2022)- A book that explores how the language
No Unplanned Crises
By Alex Fox, CEO of Mayday Trust. Alex believes that the UK’s charities and public services have one goal: to
Are good relationships possible in a broken system?
Jen Daffin is a Community Clinical Psychologist with a passion for social justice. She has 15 years experiences of working
I’m Still a Risk: a Poem by Simon Whitter
Trigger warning: this content contains mention of abuse in all forms. I’m Still a Risk, a poem by Simon Whitter.
NEF Consulting Report: Evaluating the Person-Led, Transitional and Strength Based Response’ – A New Way to Respond to Homelessness
NEF Consulting was commissioned to conduct a two-year evaluation of the Person-Led, Transitional and Strength Based (PTS) Response delivered
Radical Activist Practitioners – Without the Professionalisation Trap
Oliver Townsend, Head of Partnerships and Practice at Platfform and Head of PTS and New System Alliance in Wales,
Professional Empathy and a Duty of Hope
Nell Hardy is an actor, writer and theatre facilitator with lived experience of homelessness and mental health hospitalisation. Her
A Place to Thrive
Homelessness doesn’t start with not having somewhere to live: it starts the second you don’t feel safe in the
Risk
When I hear the word risk, I’m often filled with feelings of dread. I haven’t wanted to deal with it,
How to make enemies and alienate people
Why we need to talk more about how ends justify the means In discourse around public finances and the continued,
Systems Fail
Our journey with the New System Alliance. ‘Well, it’s been a strange decade so far. Buzzwords… I’m a great
Awkward Questions
Awkward Questions In my capacity as an autism commissioner across health and social care, I spoke to the mother of