Local Welcome’s Blog
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Our team has written these blogposts over the years, for you to enjoy…
2026 - Press Release
Read our UK-wide press release by clicking on the text below. You can also find press releases tailored to each of our 11 local groups listed underneath - click on the text to read and download.
2024 - 2025
2018 - 2021
We cooked together as strangers, but we ate together as friends - 8 Jul 2021
What we've learned about inclusive trustee recruitment - 13 May 2021
People in the lead at Local Welcome - 16 Dec 2020
What the tech sector could learn from the charity sector - 8 Dec 2020
What's next for Local Welcome - 26 Nov 2020
Local Welcome during the pandemic - 26 Nov 2020
5 things we did before hiring a tech lead - 5 Nov 2020
5 things we've learned about being a good partner - 7 Oct 2020
5 things we've learned about leadership - 23 Sept 2020
Submit your recipes to Local Welcome - 27 Aug 2020
Unlearning how to tell stories - 7 May 2020
Uncomfortable progress: automation, creativity and self-worth - 1 April 2020
Working from home - what I’ve learned as Local Welcome’s full-time remote worker - 24 March 2020
Learning to scale up Local Welcome - 11 Feb 2020
February update for leaders: guest turnout, big updates, and primary leader changes - 10 Feb 2020
January update for leaders: fixing guest turnout and improving our meals - 20 Jan 2020
Growth mindset: lessons from primary school - 4 July 2019
Finding our voice - 9 Feb 2019
Clarity and shared direction - 18 Jan 2019
Brand 2.0, our new website and how they are (un)related to new year resolutions - 7 Jan 2019
I've spent a year working in tech, this is what I've learned... - 7 Jan 2019
Community, food, resilience and rituals: why Local Welcome loves Slimming World! - 18 Dec 2018
We're hiring a technical lead - 3 Dec 2018
Politics is beautiful. War is not. - 12 Nov 2018
Maison Foo’s A Thing Mislaid - 8 Nov 2018
Brand, by way of Brighton and Paris - 6 Nov 2018
Roadmapping - finding our direction of travel - 30 Oct 2018
Why we love design briefs - 12 Oct 2018
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