Location: Great Britain
Website: communityshares.org.uk
The Community Shares Unit is supported by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG)until March 2015 and is delivered in partnership by Co-operatives UK and Locality. Modeled on the highly successful Asset Transfer Unit within Locality, the new unit works with partners to develop standards of good practice, encourage policy reforms and raise awareness to support the growth of community shares. It acts a central reference point for market intelligence, providing the latest information on community share activities nationwide, as well as producing regularly-updated guidance materials.
The unit also operates as a dynamic hub for support, building relationships with networks and organisations to signpost communities, investors and other interested parties to the most appropriate forms of advice and assistance to develop new share offers and support existing ones. Finally, it acts as a strong platform for profiling the community share model, raising awareness of the value of the approach to new entrants and facilitating peer support and networking to those already involved in community shares.
Showing posts with label Great Britain. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Campaign to Protect Rural England
Location: England, UK
Website: www.cpre.org.uk
We believe a beautiful, thriving countryside is important for everyone, no matter where they live. Millions of town and city dwellers recharge their batteries with a walk or a bike ride in the local Green Belt, spend weekends and holidays in our National Parks, or enjoy fresh local produce. People who live in rural areas keep our countryside beautiful and productive.
The countryside is unique, essential, precious and finite – and it’s in danger. Every year, a little more is lost forever to urban sprawl, new roads, housing and other developments. Rural shops and services are closing, and increasingly intensive farming is changing the character of the countryside. Climate change, too, will have serious impacts on the rural environment.
We work locally and nationally to stand up for the countryside: to protect it from the threats it faces, and to shape its future for the better.
CPRE has been standing up for the countryside for over 80 years. In that time, we’ve seen some remarkable successes. We’ve helped win protection as National Parks for some of our most remarkable landscapes, from the Lake District to the South Downs. We’ve helped to influence and apply planning laws that have, against the odds, preserved the special beauty and character of the English countryside.
Website: www.cpre.org.uk
We believe a beautiful, thriving countryside is important for everyone, no matter where they live. Millions of town and city dwellers recharge their batteries with a walk or a bike ride in the local Green Belt, spend weekends and holidays in our National Parks, or enjoy fresh local produce. People who live in rural areas keep our countryside beautiful and productive.
The countryside is unique, essential, precious and finite – and it’s in danger. Every year, a little more is lost forever to urban sprawl, new roads, housing and other developments. Rural shops and services are closing, and increasingly intensive farming is changing the character of the countryside. Climate change, too, will have serious impacts on the rural environment.
We work locally and nationally to stand up for the countryside: to protect it from the threats it faces, and to shape its future for the better.
CPRE has been standing up for the countryside for over 80 years. In that time, we’ve seen some remarkable successes. We’ve helped win protection as National Parks for some of our most remarkable landscapes, from the Lake District to the South Downs. We’ve helped to influence and apply planning laws that have, against the odds, preserved the special beauty and character of the English countryside.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Art Everywhere
Location: Great Britain
Website: www.arteverywhere.org.uk
Showcasing great British art across the UK, Art Everywhere is the largest exhibition of its kind in the world. From the 12–25 August 2013 some of the nation's greatest art is on display across 22,000 poster sites and billboards up and down the country.
Artists, curators, media owners and entrepreneurs joined by a love of art have fuelled this massive charitable celebration, and the general public crowd-funded over £30,000 to help make it happen.
Website: www.arteverywhere.org.uk
Showcasing great British art across the UK, Art Everywhere is the largest exhibition of its kind in the world. From the 12–25 August 2013 some of the nation's greatest art is on display across 22,000 poster sites and billboards up and down the country.
Artists, curators, media owners and entrepreneurs joined by a love of art have fuelled this massive charitable celebration, and the general public crowd-funded over £30,000 to help make it happen.
Friday, March 8, 2013
The Architecture Foundation
Location: Great Britain
Website: www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency that advances architecture and urbanism to enrich life now and in future. We are independent, agile and influential.
We bring together the public and professionals to cultivate new ideas and talent, stimulate discussion, and improve the quality of the built environment.
Established in 1991 as the UK's first independent architecture centre, The Architecture Foundation has organised hundreds of design initiatives, events, exhibitions and education programmes in public venues across Britain and internationally.
The Architecture Foundation is a registered charity, with a Board of Trustees composed of individuals from a wide cross-section of interests and professions including architecture, art, business, policy, media, engineering and law. The AF is proud to be an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
Before moving to its current Carmody Groarke-designed headquarters in Southwark (including the David Kohn-designed Skyroom), The Architecture Foundation has occupied high-profile and publicly-accessible venues across London including the Yard Gallery in Clerkenwell, and its original premises in the Economist Building, St James's.
The Architecture Foundation's diverse and cross-disciplinary programme includes:
- Events from film screenings to lectures and debates,
- Exhibitions that experiment with representations of architecture,
- Competitions and commissions for buildings and public spaces,
- Awards that celebrate excellence in contemporary architecture and urbanism,
- Education projects, focusing on young people considering further built environment study, and
- A wide range of other Projects including the New Architects international exchange programme and the London Festival of Architecture.
Website: www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency that advances architecture and urbanism to enrich life now and in future. We are independent, agile and influential.
We bring together the public and professionals to cultivate new ideas and talent, stimulate discussion, and improve the quality of the built environment.
Established in 1991 as the UK's first independent architecture centre, The Architecture Foundation has organised hundreds of design initiatives, events, exhibitions and education programmes in public venues across Britain and internationally.
The Architecture Foundation is a registered charity, with a Board of Trustees composed of individuals from a wide cross-section of interests and professions including architecture, art, business, policy, media, engineering and law. The AF is proud to be an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
Before moving to its current Carmody Groarke-designed headquarters in Southwark (including the David Kohn-designed Skyroom), The Architecture Foundation has occupied high-profile and publicly-accessible venues across London including the Yard Gallery in Clerkenwell, and its original premises in the Economist Building, St James's.
The Architecture Foundation's diverse and cross-disciplinary programme includes:
- Events from film screenings to lectures and debates,
- Exhibitions that experiment with representations of architecture,
- Competitions and commissions for buildings and public spaces,
- Awards that celebrate excellence in contemporary architecture and urbanism,
- Education projects, focusing on young people considering further built environment study, and
- A wide range of other Projects including the New Architects international exchange programme and the London Festival of Architecture.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
City Deals Programme
Location: Great Britain
Website: w
ww.gov.uk/government/publications/unlocking-growth-in-cities-city-deals-wave-1
The Minister for Cities, supported by the Cities Policy Unit, is working closely with individual cities and across all government departments to agree a series of tailored ‘city deals’. The content of the ‘city deals’ will reflect the different needs of cities.
We are looking to civic and private sector leaders to identify their economic priorities and to develop specific propositions, setting out what they would like to do differently, and what needs to change for this to happen. Every deal aims to give cities the powers and tools they need to drive local economic growth and unlock projects or initiatives that will boost economies and deliver a step change in the governance arrangements.
Our approach to city deals is informed by a set of key principles:
- Putting cities in the driving seat: cities, not Whitehall, are best placed to understand the economic opportunities and challenges they face. Many have already taken the initiative and begun to develop credible economic strategies, and these will be the starting point for our work with cities.
- Focusing on the wider metro area: Encouraging deals across the wider economic area has clear merits in terms of scale, geographical reach and economic governance. Deals will be negotiated with groups of authorities across a functional economic area.
- Working across boundaries, sectors and professions: partnership and collaboration between Government, cities and their neighbouring authorities, and local business leaders will be critical to delivering transformative change.
- Devolving real power to city authorities: cities need the right levers to drive economic growth. Where there are clear economic gains to be had we will look for opportunities to devolve powers and responsibilities.
- Providing incentives for sustainable success: local leaders will need to redouble their efforts in creating incentives and conditions for private sector success.
- Frontload political engagement: getting real political traction and buy-in within central government by frontloading ministerial engagement with cities.
The first round of participating cities are:
Birmingham
Bristol
Leeds
Liverpool
Newcastle
Nottingham
Sheffield
Manchester
These largest and most economically important English cities outside of London were invited to set out the powers they need to drive local growth in December last year.
In return, the cities have agreed to put in place stronger, more accountable local leadership and to spend their resources more efficiently. The resulting groundbreaking agreements signal a dramatic shift, freeing cities from Whitehall control.
Website: w
ww.gov.uk/government/publications/unlocking-growth-in-cities-city-deals-wave-1
The Minister for Cities, supported by the Cities Policy Unit, is working closely with individual cities and across all government departments to agree a series of tailored ‘city deals’. The content of the ‘city deals’ will reflect the different needs of cities.
We are looking to civic and private sector leaders to identify their economic priorities and to develop specific propositions, setting out what they would like to do differently, and what needs to change for this to happen. Every deal aims to give cities the powers and tools they need to drive local economic growth and unlock projects or initiatives that will boost economies and deliver a step change in the governance arrangements.
Our approach to city deals is informed by a set of key principles:
- Putting cities in the driving seat: cities, not Whitehall, are best placed to understand the economic opportunities and challenges they face. Many have already taken the initiative and begun to develop credible economic strategies, and these will be the starting point for our work with cities.
- Focusing on the wider metro area: Encouraging deals across the wider economic area has clear merits in terms of scale, geographical reach and economic governance. Deals will be negotiated with groups of authorities across a functional economic area.
- Working across boundaries, sectors and professions: partnership and collaboration between Government, cities and their neighbouring authorities, and local business leaders will be critical to delivering transformative change.
- Devolving real power to city authorities: cities need the right levers to drive economic growth. Where there are clear economic gains to be had we will look for opportunities to devolve powers and responsibilities.
- Providing incentives for sustainable success: local leaders will need to redouble their efforts in creating incentives and conditions for private sector success.
- Frontload political engagement: getting real political traction and buy-in within central government by frontloading ministerial engagement with cities.
The first round of participating cities are:
Birmingham
Bristol
Leeds
Liverpool
Newcastle
Nottingham
Sheffield
Manchester
These largest and most economically important English cities outside of London were invited to set out the powers they need to drive local growth in December last year.
In return, the cities have agreed to put in place stronger, more accountable local leadership and to spend their resources more efficiently. The resulting groundbreaking agreements signal a dramatic shift, freeing cities from Whitehall control.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Location: Great Britain
Website: www.thersa.org
The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges.
Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world.
Bringing great ideas to global audiences, cutting across traditional political battle lines, carrying out cutting-edge research and development projects, undertaking practical innovation itself and by mobilising the talents and commitment of its 27,000 strong Fellowship:
in this way the RSA is becoming the kind of organisation this century urgently needs.
The Society was founded in 1754, was granted a Royal Charter in 1847,[1] and the right to use the term Royal in its name by King Edward VII in 1908.
Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee are some of the notable past and present members, and it has today more than 27,000 Fellows from 70 countries worldwide.
The RSA's Medal winners include Nelson Mandela, Sir Frank Whittle, and Professor Stephen Hawking.
The RSA Medals, named Albert Medal, the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Bicentenary Medal, are still awarded. The RSA members are still among the innovative contributors to the human knowledge, as shown by the Oxford English Dictionary which records the first use of the term "sustainability" in an environmental sense of the word in the RSA's Journal in 1980.
Website: www.thersa.org
The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges.
Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world.
Bringing great ideas to global audiences, cutting across traditional political battle lines, carrying out cutting-edge research and development projects, undertaking practical innovation itself and by mobilising the talents and commitment of its 27,000 strong Fellowship:
in this way the RSA is becoming the kind of organisation this century urgently needs.
The Society was founded in 1754, was granted a Royal Charter in 1847,[1] and the right to use the term Royal in its name by King Edward VII in 1908.
Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee are some of the notable past and present members, and it has today more than 27,000 Fellows from 70 countries worldwide.
The RSA's Medal winners include Nelson Mandela, Sir Frank Whittle, and Professor Stephen Hawking.
The RSA Medals, named Albert Medal, the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Bicentenary Medal, are still awarded. The RSA members are still among the innovative contributors to the human knowledge, as shown by the Oxford English Dictionary which records the first use of the term "sustainability" in an environmental sense of the word in the RSA's Journal in 1980.
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