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Pam Barrett

@pambarrett.bsky.social
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Director at Better Places / Be Buckfastleigh / Devon / rural inequalities / democracy / fungi

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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beautiful blue owl pellet from Dartmoor today.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Combestone Tor looking across the Dart valley #Dartmoor
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Amazing. What would attack a young dolphin?
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@johnwalterswildife.bsky.social might know.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@danzep.bsky.social lovely to hear you on R4 #looseends. Big up the #bats
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The Young Foundation @theyoungfdn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
BLOG 💭 | ‘Stop asking communities what they think – and start sharing power in policymaking’ Senior Research Manager Tania Carregha says participatory policymaking could help us rebuild trust and shape a happier, fairer future for UK communities. Read the blog 👇 bit.ly/4w6Ws2q
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‘Stop asking communities what they think – and start sharing power in policymaking’ | The Young Foundation
Senior Research Manager Tania Carregha says participatory policymaking could help us rebuild trust and shape a happier, fairer future for UK communities
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Beautiful Spitchwick #Dartmoor #Devon
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And where i watched the millennium fireworks!
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Lovely rocking photos of my lovely rocking husband ♥️ as @thejunebrides.bsky.social supporting the epic #belleandsebastian in Dublin last weekend. #thejunebrides
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Packed lunch for my indie pop husband on his way to @thejunebrides.bsky.social rehearsals for the Dublin leg of the #belleandsebastian tour. #indiepopfuel
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy #internationalwomensday to our incredible team of women past and present busy building the community they want to see. We're incredibly proud and grateful for all you do. #Devon #Buckfastleigh #Bovey #Bridgetown #Ashburton
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thank you very much.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
That's really interesting. I'm in Buckfastleigh Devon where it looks like our early social housing is pre war. Like lots of rural places, they were to support industries like mills, foundry & quarrying not agriculture.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The #ruraleconomy is more public sector, education, health, real estate, distribution, transport, accommodation, food, manufacturing, construction, wholesale, retail, motor repair, & professional, scientific, technical services than it is agriculture, forestry and fishing.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Oh wow! That's amazing footage.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Incredible #aurora #Buckfastleigh #Dartmoor #Devon
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy new year to me! I have my office room back.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The road at #Torcross is officially closed and the sea is roaring even at low tide. Definitely avoid as the tide is rising. The size of the rocks it has shifted is terrifying.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Happy Christmas John.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I saw loads too, plus a lot of ganets all further out where the sea was whipping round Berry Head towards the harbour. Must have been a nice shoal. Thank you for helping me id them.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Thank you for that. I was there yesterday and wasn't quite sure I'd seen 40+ GNDs but it seems like I perhaps did!
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy #nationalrobinday to all those who celebrate.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Mine and Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social of the same.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
And outstanding bravery and principles from the civil servant behind the expose. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Hailed as a hero and then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower
Enrico La Rocca helped expose profound failures but less than a year later was dismissed by the DWP – and then later rehired
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A grey #Dartmoor day.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
With that there Phil @thejunebrides.bsky.social when we were both young and gorgeous! Why does no one tell young people?
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Grey seals at #Brixham Harbour today.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Teeny tiny fungi day.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“Supernormal profits” of Britain’s biggest housebuilders - News - Cardiff University share.google/v5t0ddeJfKgd...
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“Supernormal profits” of Britain’s biggest housebuilders
UK government support and lack of competition meant ‘big three’ housebuilders produced profit margins of between 17-32% per year for shareholders, analysis finds
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"The analysis from Cardiff University and Henley Business School shows how Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Developments and Persimmon used the risk of withholding housing supply to renegotiate contributions to local authorities and win government subsidies."
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"The three largest housebuilders used their market power to deliver abnormally large profits and gain an advantage over competitors without dramatically increasing their levels of housing supply, a report shows....
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Brilliant stuff Clare!
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Wow!
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Stupidly good in the south #Devon woods today. #fungi
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I found them today too! Carried one all the way through the woods to show Phil and then dropped it at the last moment! We did get these though.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The only reasonable thing to do with freshly foraged porcini of this quality. #salt-n-pepa #letstalkaboutceps
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Neil McInroy @neilmcinroy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Kruger's work on 'social covenant' is liked by centrists. Akin to #BigSociety and #communitypower - masking corporate power and hollowing out of welfare state - it sees to shift burden of public services onto communities, especially poor, under the guise of empowerment. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform UK
The East Wiltshire MP said the Conservatives were no longer the main party of opposition.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I'm not on LinkedIn any more. Are you able to share the text here? I agree, there's far too much complacency and lack of urgency in policy making and delivery.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The realities of rural transport means that young adults can't access training or work. And this isn't in the middle of #Dartmoor, it's alongside the busy A38 between Exeter and Plymouth. #rural #inequalities #PlymouthMarjon #Bicton #Exetercollege #Stagecoach #Devon #DevonCountyCouncil
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Beefsteak and Chicken of the Woods #fungi out today on the same tree.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Showing off, but for a non famous couple we've sure had a lot of Guardian articles! @thejunebrides.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2006/j... www.theguardian.com/society/2019... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Future Lidos @future-lidos.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
In contrast to yesterday’s sad post about Ramsgate’s lost lido, here’s a great feature just out in the RICS journal, Modus, celebrating the great British lido revival - ww3.rics.org/uk/en/modus/...
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The great British lido revival
Once at the heart of their communities, many UK lidos fell into decline in the late 20th century. Now they’re making a comeback as valuable community assets
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
A BARGAIN BANK HOLIDAY £3.50 gets you Sensitive – The Film. Indiepop Wrecking Crew plays house band to singers from The Sea Urchins, Talulah Gosh, Soup Dragons, Altered Images, Weather Prophets, June Brides, Waltones & Jetstream Pony – playing 100% #indiepop smashes. www.sensitivealbum.com/the-film
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The Film – Sensitive
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Brilliant. It was #Buckfastleigh 's 10th rebirthday May 25 too!
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Neil McInroy @neilmcinroy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Trendy 'economic system change' frameworks and ideas may be admired in elite intellectual and policy circles - but they are high theory, low practice. Instead we must root change in everyday lives and take real action- #communitywealthbuilding www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/beyond...
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Beyond Cake-And-Eat-It: The Limits of Trendy ‘System-Change’ Frameworks — The Democracy Collaborative
Governments, think tanks, and philanthropic foundations parade bold system-change agendas, yet the substance rarely matches the slogans when it comes to concrete material outcomes.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Especially in relation to the real rural economy.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
@mia-gray.bsky.social. thanks for the shared follow. Delighted to find an economic geography professor! I've a very much amateur interest in rural deprivation, economy and impact of austerity.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This one! Dad would be having a fit over the state of that privet!
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
My childhood home was one of these on the edge of Leeds. Huge garden front and back where my day grew loads of vegetables to keep the family well fed. Incredible municipal vision.
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Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Sound up for this marvelous donkey engine at #NewLanark mill. #industrialrevoution #Scottishheritage
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