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With the economic downturn in full flow, disabled people are struggling more than ever to compete in a floundering job market.
More than half of all disabled people of working age do not have a job. Leonard Cheshire Disability is launching a new online resource today (16 February) www.lcdisability.org/suitability to …
Posted on Monday, 16th February 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) is supporting the city-wide Year of the Environment project by planting 100 trees across Liverpool.
The organisation, having entered its centenary year, is working closely with Liverpool City Council to encourage local community and voluntary organisations to make a pledge to the environment. They …
Posted on Monday, 16th February 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Northern Ireland's heritage is understandably something to be handled with sensitivity.
But eleven years on from the Good Friday Agreement and communities across Northern Ireland are at last ready to tell their story - and more willing to listen to other people's version of events. In an age of reconciliation, …
Posted on Friday, 13th February 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Local communities are in for a hard time. Not just the economic downturn, but also technological change, a widening poverty gap, demographic change, the shortage of affordable housing, the threat of climate change – all of these will have far reaching impacts in every part of the country.
If we …
Posted on Friday, 13th February 2009 | This entry has 1 comment(s)
It was extremely encouraging to see such extensive pickup by the media of Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson’s guidance on the consumption of alcohol by children and young people.
While alcohol is part of our national culture and can positively contribute to family, community and cultural life, when it’s …
Posted on Friday, 13th February 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
In the brave new world that was promised following the election of the first Labour Government for eighteen years back in 1997, one of the Blairites major agendas was the reform of the public sector.
One area in particular, they believed, was ripe for renewal and modernisation – local government. …
Posted on Thursday, 12th February 2009 | This entry has 1 comment(s)
Four innovative buildings have been announced as the winners of the Hackney Design Awards 2008. Adelaide Wharf, Hothouse, Lau Sun House and Shoreditch Prototype House were presented awards by architecture critic Rowan Moore and Mayor of Hackney Jules Pipe at a glittering awards evening on Wednesday (4 Feb).
The awards …
Posted on Friday, 6th February 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
As the recession bites, and companies feel the pinch across the country, we in Basildon are working hard to do all we can to help out all of our businesses, no matter how large or small. We are pumping £700,000 into Basildon’s business heart over the next year, through Thames …
Posted on Friday, 6th February 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Liverpool’s Local Involvement Network (LINk) has been launched at a special event held at the city’s LACE Conference Centre.
The network gives local residents a say in the future of their health and social care provision and the inauguration event gave members the chance to meet with the major commissioners …
Posted on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
As the Chairman for the Anti Poverty Network Cymru, I would like to say how sad it is that the West Rhyl Community Company is closing its doors forever. WRCC have backed our organisation from day one and their help and support has been exceptional to the fight against poverty. …
Ian Mather on 10th March 2010:
Phoenix from the flames: the rebirth of Rhyl
Yes , it is extremely sad to see a hard working group such as WRCC close due to lack of funding. I just find it hard to understand that in an area that is crying out for support that a worthwhile organisation such as this is being allowed to shut …
John Watkin on 9th March 2010:
Phoenix from the flames: the rebirth of Rhyl
I agree… I wrote a piece on PB for The Guardian a few years ago… as you say, they are a good way of getting far greater involvement and support for local spending decisions, and that could be (and is) applied to wider areas such as Total Place.
What …
Robert Bullard on 9th March 2010:
Parish councils: an unlikely hothouse for community development?
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