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One thing always strikes me when I meet local people who want to change their communities.
It's their passion and determination to make a difference, often against all the odds. Community reps, local activists, residents, ordinary people: call them what you will, they're the people who work, often without pay, …
Posted on Friday, 20th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS) has launched an action plan for the future of the city's third sector and is asking local voluntary and community groups to express their views.
The Compact is a framework agreement on desirable working relationships between third sector organisations and the Liverpool First partnership, …
Posted on Thursday, 19th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Key Fund Yorkshire, an organisation that provides funding to social enterprises and voluntary & community groups is celebrating reaching ten years of delivery.
The Key Fund has been delivering grants and loans to third sector organisations throughout Yorkshire and the Humber since 1999, and is celebrating this achievement at their Annual …
Posted on Tuesday, 17th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Q: What makes places last?
A: Guided busways, fog-basking beetles, people and myths
In the second of this year’s 4x4 debates an architect, a planner, a programme director and a poet gathered in Leeds Met last week to debate the question: What makes places last?
Peter Studdert, director of joint …
Posted on Monday, 16th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Upward Curve PR is searching for its perfect PR partner - a smaller not-for-profit organisation to adopt as its Charity of the Year for 2009/2010. Closing date for applications is 17th April 2009 (visit www.upwardcurve.co.uk/news).
Upward Curve PR's Charity of the Year could be any not-for-profit such as a …
Posted on Friday, 13th March 2009 | This entry has 1 comment(s)
The Name is Pond, James Pond
Over the last two decades we have: opened nine businesses and closed five. We have served a million customers with half a million filled rolls, laundered a quarter of a million items of clothing, including 10,000 muddy Scotland Rugby kits and some money …
Posted on Wednesday, 11th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Littering is probably the most widespread form of anti-social behaviour in the UK. Since the 1960s the amount of litter dropped annually has increased by around 500 per cent, and littering has become one of the most important local issues for the public. Town centres suffer from the blight of …
Posted on Wednesday, 11th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
We're looking forward to being flooded with ideas for the Sefton Waterworks scheme on Merseyside as there's a bit of healthy competition on offer for architects and artists from across the globe to offer their proposals as part of the Housing Market Renewal Art for Places Project.
The competition has …
Posted on Wednesday, 11th March 2009 | This entry has 1 comment(s)
Lord Mandelson said, last November, ‘It's completely unacceptable to the Government and to business in this country for banks indefinitely to stop functioning as banks.'
In doing so he revealed the government's confusion: they've recognised banks are failing us but not why. Until they acknowledge that banks have become …
Posted on Wednesday, 11th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Sitting on the train on the way back from the bassac conference recently I was mulling over what had been said over the two days. Had anything surprised me, made me tut with annoyance or even made me want to stand up, point a finger and shout ‘But that's just …
Posted on Tuesday, 10th March 2009 | This entry has 0 comment(s)
Thanks Vicky. I’ll take a look at the community you suggested soon.
Mike
Mike Towers on 16th March 2010:
Local authorities and social media – what’s next?
Glad you liked the reports. Socitm’s work on social media stems from our work on council websites (the annual Better connected report on the usefulness and usability of council websites, and our Website takeup service which monitors usage of and satisfaction with them). Digital engagement with local communities by providing …
vicky sargent on 16th March 2010:
Local authorities and social media – what’s next?
John I share your uncertainty and unhappiness around the ‘well yes its macro but we have to start at the local’ mantra. Aside of the technical and statistical aspects of this debate, there is also the impact on the more qualitative or ‘people’ side. People who are disadvantaged, excluded or …
Edward on 15th March 2010:
Inequalities of motivation
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