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13 June 2008

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The animateur from the ambulance unit - preview

Mike Jenn, of North West London AM, traces the life of a community pioneer

Streetwide Worldwide by Tony Gibson
  • Jon Carpenter
  • ISBN 978 1 906067 03 8
  • £14
  • 99


  • Tony Gibson is one of the country's great community animateurs
  • He knows, for example, that people talk together more easily if they are doing so while getting on with something practical
  • When things are getting done, they are contributing other skills along with their thoughts and they are not face-to-face
  • This incidental conversation ebbs and flows with informal pauses and is less open to manipulation
  • Where tensions need to be eased a lot of progress can be made during the washing-up or in the community garden work party

  • Mike Jenn

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