Caledonia Centre for Social Development
Popular education, social solidarity and the Internet

Hakikazi Catalyst
We work on the basis that being able to understand issues of policy and engage with them is a strategic need for the poor and marginalised. We directly address perceptions of powerlessness by enabling people to understand the forces acting on their lives and livelihoods and by empowering them to develop appropriate reactions.

Hb Tanzania NGO Policy Forum - towards a protocol for engagement in the policy process (2002).
Report of a consultancy to help clarify the Forum's mission and objectives and thus make recommendations for its organisational structure.

Hc Dialogue for Change (2002)
Report of a Tanzanian Civil Society Colloquium aimed at Popularising Policy and Influencing Change through Action Research, Advocacy and Creative Communication

Online Favorite Places
Bookmarks with tags at del-icio.us

Seafield Research and Development Services
The corporate home site

srds Barn Cottage
Self catering accommodation in Portsoy - sleeps 4

Scribd -
Documents and compilations posted online

Easy Speak (BLOG)
Pointers to using plain language from an author who has done a lot of it. (Favorite places collected over the last few years)

Broadening participation and deepening understanding
A set of 11 short discussion papers produced for the Scottish Land Reform Convention in 2000

Community development and communication - digging deeper
This page points to information created as part of a research study on community development and communication within the Cairngorms area in Scotland. There are three types of information - articles, books and a jargon buster (what the big words mean)

Culture and Values
This site reviews work on variations in value orientations. These include orientation towards Human nature, Man-nature, Time, and Activity. Our 'eternal verities' get a shake up!

Everybody Wins - an exploration of conflict resolution
A set of 17 one-page handouts to inform discussion. First used as part of a training programme for education advisors in Lesotho. Prepared by George Clark in February 1997

Knowledge in a Nutshell
Why read the book? Over six hundred one-page summary documents are being converted to html.

Lategrowth - continuing development for oldies
This is an interactive website (a wiki) where older people share their experiences of moving from 'doing' and 'having' to a more relaxed, peaceful and joyful mode of human 'being'.

No more broken promises?
A plain language guide to the Millennium Development Goals. Written in collaboration with Hakikazi Catalyst (see above)

STEEPLeS
STEEPLeS is an acronym for the seven elements of a holistic and systematic development framework for change for the better: Social Technological Environmental Economic Political Legal Spiritual

Training for Community Economic Development
A Staff Training program for the required Attitude, Skills and Knowledge (ASK) from The Banffshire Partnership Ltd Access* Project (*Advancing Community Capacity for Enterprise Sustainability and Support)

Training of Trainers
This web site was designed to facilitate the training of trainers. It was generated through interaction with a group of Trainers of Out of School Care workers in various parts of the Highland and Islands of Scotland.

Album - Cure for the Blues
It is difficult to label this album but there is no doubt that the lyrics and music together overwhelmingly support the unlikely notion that this wrinkly mass of greyness has indeed found, 'The Cure for the Blues'.

Album - the never ending highway
"But I lace my boots regardless, and I lift my pack with purpose, as I move along the never ending highway." It was going to take many years to get to grips with the notion that there is no highway. The songs in this collection record some of the twists and turns along the way.

The Soultrader at myspace
A sample of six songs from the two albums

Toon loon tunes
New Scottish Music in the traditional style. With manuscripts, midi files and musings (Doric with English subtitles)

Anam Cara
Peace in the highlands

Existential soft rock (BLOG)
Mental re-construction through just sitting - be still and know

let it begin with me
rough guide to turning your mind around

The essence of faith
Whispers from everywhere. Set of 'words of faith' articles for the Mopheme Newspaper in Lesotho