How local writer Linda Jones became a publish children’s author… Words: Linda Jones. Born and brought up in Newport South Wales I struggled at school to begin with. I couldn’t read until I was 9, but, once the school gave me additional support my world opened up. During my early teenage years I wrote avidly …
Warren Draper Ever since we released our dedicated #Slow issue back in May 2015, Doncopolitan has been working to encourage slow living and slow livelihoods as a means of social improvement and economic regeneration in Doncaster. The regenerative power of the slow ethos lies in its advocacy of human-scaled businesses, its support for resilient …
Written by Greenjacker For those who don’t know, the Greenjacker has a not-so-secret hideaway down at Bentley Urban Farm (BUF), an upcycled market garden situated behind Bentley Hight Street School and St Peter’s Church. Bentley is a typical Doncaster town. An ex-mining community which is officially listed amongst the top 10% of the poorest regions …
Is Donny even ready for culture? Guy Russell Interviews Rachel Horne So what is culture? Culture means different things to different people but in its broadest sense, it’s behaviours or rituals that define a particular group of people. You might like opera, northern soul, listening to country music or grime. It’s all culture. Throughout history …
Bentley Urban Farm From our very first issue back in 2014, Doncopolitan has brazenly declared its intention to build a brighter, braver Donny. Central to such a project is the development of what is known as the Foundational Economy. Manchester’s Centre for Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) says that the Foundational Economy is: “built from the activities …