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Communities Leading Change
When Andrew Mawson arrived in Bromley-by-Bow in the east end of London, in the 1980s, it was in a state of social, economic and material disrepair. Living there, getting to know the residents and institutions, he soon realised that by unlocking its untapped potential, the community could begin to turn itself around. The result, the Bromley-by-Bow Centre, has encouraged literacy, housing, business, health, welfare and enterprise in the area to flourish. Mawson talks about his book, The Social Entrepreneur, with Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England. Kingsnorth's book explores the impact of breakneck globalisation on the cultures and landscapes of England, exploring the homogenising of the landscape, the death of the small, the local and the individual, and the people fighting for a different kind of future.
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