Welcome to LivesthroughFriends

Have you read "Much More to Life than Services"?

by Bob Rhodes, LivesthroughFriends Co-Director, "Much More to Life than Services" was published in 2010:

Much More to Life than Services...asks our social care professionals to use their skills, resources and knowledge to help people to come together and "visualise, plan and implement their own support". The book is a means to an end, a brilliant and sharp reminder to bring about a culture change for the better.
Martin Simon (Chief Executive - Time Banking UK).

You can purchase a copy of "Much More To Life Than Services" through PayPal using the "BUY NOW" button below or click the following link to download an order form.

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Our goals are simple but challenging:

1. To contribute to the evolution of the personalisation thrust and the restoring of power in respect of social welfare to individuals, families and communities
2. To demonstrate the necessity and viability of a wide diversity of initiatives to not only support people to successfully self-direct but also, and as importantly, to effect a culture change in favour of self-reliance and reciprocity
3. Through local action
4. To raise grassroots awareness of the opportunities on offer and support people and organisations to grasp them
5. To constructively criticise initiatives that unnecessarily retain power and control in the hands of public bureaucracies
6. To contribute to the emergence of a movement of people who believe that there‘s more to life than services.