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Backing Welsh food innovation
Backing Welsh food innovation Afallen has played a pivotal role with helping bring a new food to Welsh markets. The Lion’s Mane mushroom burger has proved to be a popular addition at the popular Swansea eatery and coffee shop ‘Ground‘. The mushrooms are harvested in Trimsaram, Carmarthenshire, and combined with other ingredients to produce a…
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Stone by stone: Deconstructing and rebuilding innovation in Wales
The last guest post in the series of four by Professor Calvin Jones about the Welsh economy describes how innovation has developed before and after devolution. You can read his first three posts in the series: Header photo: courtesy of William Warby “In the war against the Welsh, one of the men of arms was…
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Faster: imagining a Wales that *really* goes for growth
This third guest post by Professor Calvin Jones about Wales’ economy is part of Afallen’s objective of elevating the terms of the debate in Wales about how our economy operates – and what can be done to improve it. You can read Calvin’s first blog post here, and his second post here. Header photo: courtesy…
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Leaving Twitter
Afallen was set up in 2018 to keep money and skills in Wales, and to help organisations understand, and implement, Future Generations ways of working. We’re a small business, and in common with most other organisations in Wales, we adopted a range of social media platforms to help communicate with our audience. Twitter (X) was…
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Evaluating GwyrddNi
We’re delighted to announce that Afallen has been appointed to evaluate the exciting next stage of the GwyrddNi project – a Gwynedd-based, community-led movement, embedding climate actions across five communities. We have previously evaluated a wide range of projects, from tourism activities on Ynys Môn, to supporting refugees in Swansea. We’re really excited about this…
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Must Everything Go? The Prospects for economic (re-)localisation in Wales
This second guest post by Professor Calvin Jones about Wales’ economy is part of Afallen’s objective of elevating the terms of the debate in Wales about how our economy operates – and what can be done to improve it. You can read Calvin’s first blog post here. Header photo: courtesy of Jim Nix. London never…
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Introducing; Mastodon for Organisations training
As Xitter continues to plumb the depths of free speech absolutism, empowering, enriching and emboldening far-right views, many people are starting to question whether the dominant forms of social media are appropriate for them or the organisations they work for. Afallen has long been a pioneer of open source technologies, and we are proud to…
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Afallen’s ‘Cynnig Cymraeg’
Header photo: a signpost from Tafwyl (David Clubb) Afallen and the Welsh language Afallen was created for a number of reasons. We want to keep money and skills in Wales. We want to help organisations understand, and better implement, Future Generations ways of working in order to achieve the Future Generations Goals. And we want…
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If we tolerate this; Wales in the world economy
This guest post by Professor Calvin Jones, published on St David’s Day 2024, is part of Afallen’s ongoing work to stimulate debate about the opportunities to create prosperity in Wales by thinking and doing differently. Header photo: the Amazon Warehouse (‘fulfillment centre’) in Swansea, obtained from Coflein.gov.uk. “The original marginality, of course, was that of…
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Board training
Afallen is delighted to be working in partnership with Deep Insight to deliver a programme of training, fully funded by Welsh Government, to improve representation of Wales’ diverse communities on public Boards in Wales. The three training programmes, to be delivered in February and March 2024, are: Each of the training programmes is being offered…