It’s here – a brand new network for organisations and practitioners who are working in a strengths-based way and looking to transform the systems that surround public services, so that people accessing them can take back control of their lives and futures. People seeking support often become trapped in services and face barriers created by […]
Brook works with some of the Mayday team in Haringey, North London, using what he has learned from his own experience of systems surrounding public services to help the council and other organisations design more compassionate and effective responses to people going through tough times. Brook joined the Mayday team to speak at Shelter’s Conference […]
Report from the Social Care Institute for Excellence, Mayday Trust and Think Local Act Personal. Published: November 2022 In 2017, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) published The asset-based area, a briefing paper written by Alex Fox, formerly Chief Executive of Shared Lives Plus and now Chief Executive of Mayday Trust, which described 10 features of an ‘asset-based area’ necessary […]
Mayday CEO, Alex Fox sat down to discuss all things strengths-based and systems change for the Charity Impact Podcast. Listen here
The Problem we want to solve: The systemic institutionalisation of people accessing support services. The Mayday Vision: A world where systems work for people going through tough times. The Mayday Mission: To model a person-led, transitional and strength-based system alongside people going through tough times and to build a movement of people and organisations to […]
By Alex Fox and Chris Fox As part of New Local’s first instalment of their New Thinking series, Alex Fox, Mayday CEO and Chris Fox, Professor of Evaluation and Policy Analysis at Manchester Metropolitan University examine the state of public services in the UK today, and make the case for whole system reform, moving towards […]
Dannie Grufferty, PTS Coach and System Influencer in Haringey, explores the boundaries and challenges of the relationships she currently holds with people she works alongside and questions if there is a better way to support people through tough times. I had a nice text this morning. Often a rarity when you work alongside public service […]
Julie McEver, Chair of Trustees at Mayday Trust I have been a Trustee for Mayday since October 2016 and I am thrilled to currently be the Chair. Mayday is a wonderful organisation trying to make improvements in our society by working with people and truly listening to them. I believe this listening work is what […]
We all know that to get help from public services, people have to jump through hoops. We take it for granted. But why are those hoops there, and what happens if you take them away?
Mayday Trust responds to “lack of help and hope” for those facing homelessness in mini budget