Local Welcome’s Blog
Hi there, welcome to our blog 👋
At the moment, we mainly communicate through our social media and monthly newsletter, rather than blogposts. We also publish weeknotes for our leaders. Here are some blogposts the team have written over the years, for you to enjoy:
Local Welcome - how did the magic start? - 28 Mar 2024
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