Tag: Rural communities

• Leadership, Vision, and the Limits of Power: Lessons from a Community Charity

  Between 2008 and 2017, I helped steer Phoenix Community Furniture Scheme through its most turbulent decade, from post-recession ambition to austerity-Between 2008 and 2017, I helped steer Phoenix Community Furniture Scheme through its most turbulent decade – years that took the organisation from post‑recession ambition to austerity‑era survival, and then into a period of renewal…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  11/01/2026

  Studies

  Austerity, bilingualism, change management, Charity leadership, community empowerment, community regeneration, crisis leadership, dignity, ethical leadership, governance, inclusion, institutional memory, leadership, Leadership lessons, Mid Wales, organisational culture, organisational resilience, public service, reflective practice, Rural communities, Rural Wales, Social Enterprise, Third sector, voluntary sector, Wales, Welsh Communities, Welsh language, Welsh policy

• A Christmas in the Victorian Welsh Uplands

  In the high country of mid and north Wales, where the hills folded into one another like great, weathered blankets and the lanes were little more than tracks worn by generations of hooves and boots, Christmas in the Victorian era arrived quietly. There was no sense of sudden abundance, no dramatic break from the rhythm…

  antonydaviesfrsa

  23/12/2025

  Articles

  19th century Wales, Agrarian Wales, books, Calennig, christmas, Christmas in Wales, Cultural memory, fiction, history, Mari Lwyd, Mid Wales, Nonconformist Wales, North Wales, Noson Gyflaith, Plygain, Rural communities, Rural winter life, Upland farming, Victorian Christmas, Victorian domestic life, Victorian Wales, Welsh Chapels, Welsh Christmas traditions, Welsh countryside, Welsh farmhouse life, Welsh folk traditions, Welsh rural life, Welsh Social History, Welsh uplands, writing