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RNZ News
13-05-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Feature interview: the film exploring the decline in community
Join a club and save democracy. 30 years ago, political scientist Robert Putnam published research explaining that people were becoming increasingly disconnected from each other and disengaged with their communities because they stopped joining clubs, going to church or participating in school groups. Pete Davis was one of Putnam's students. His sister Rebecca was a producer at NBC news. Together they tracked Putnam down and put together a documentary about the decline in community and connection called Join or Die. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Over 700 join ‘Pistol' Pete's Frocester cricket ground walk for cancer charities
A FROCESTER man's cancer diagnosis has brought a village together in a remarkable show of support. Pete Davis, affectionately known as 'Pistol,' was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. In response, he launched an extraordinary fundraising campaign. What began as a personal plan to walk a solitary one-mile lap around the Frocester cricket ground to raise money for Hope for Tomorrow and Cheltenham Oncology's SPACE appeal quickly grew into a community-wide movement. Pete was soon joined by 28 friends and family members. By April 1, that number had grown to an incredible 738 participants. Over the course of April, Pete completed an astounding 2,956 laps of the cricket ground—raising over £4,000 in donations. Donations can still be made via: On the final day of the month, 200 supporters walked the last mile with him. Fellow Frocester Cricket Club member Matt Davis also took on a fundraising challenge, running 10K every day in April in support of the mental health charity MIND. The entire Frocester first and second cricket teams, along with Matt's friends, joined in, bringing the total number of participants on the final night to more than 200. The local community rallied too, with a barbecue sponsored by Kings Stanley's LF Dangerfield bakery and Frocester's own Frocester Fayre. Meanwhile, the Ram pub in Woodchester selected Pete's effort as the beneficiary of its next quiz night's winning team donation, adding another layer of support to the campaign.
