At the Chain Reaction event last week we invited Julian Dobson, journalist,
blogger and Urban Pollinator to reflect on localism, regeneration and the Big
Society agenda – and to share his experience of community led regeneration in
context of the current economic climate. You can listen to the presentation
below or download the file as [...]
On the day Big Society Tsar Lord Wei announced he is cutting back his
commitments to the Big Society agenda, over 100 people from the private, public
and voluntary sector across East London came together at a Chain Reaction event
to take local issues into their own hands. With cuts set to hit the deprived
[...]
East London community charities and Canary Wharf’s biggest businesses are
pledging to work together to help forge the ‘Big Society’ in east London, at a
conference in Canary Wharf. Chain Reaction 2011, on 1st February, will see
figures from top businesses, central and local government, and community groups
come together to tackle the most pressing [...]
CHAIN REACTION 2011 1 February 2011, 9.30 – 17.00, Canary Wharf, London
Following our blog post last last year about ‘What Big Society Means for East
London‘, we are delighted to announce our plans for Chain Reaction 2011.
Everything in east London is bigger – more wealth, more poverty, more diversity
more opportunity, more agencies [...]
Yesterday we blogged about Trustee Week, which aims to celebrate the work done
by trustees and to increase understanding of the trustee role. As part of
this blog post we also talked about KnowHow NonProfit’s interviews with five
trustees from different organisations (if you haven’t checked these interviews
out yet we suggest you do, it’s [...]
The Charity Commission and partners are running the first ever Trustees’ Week
from 25-31 October 2010, which aims to celebrate the fantastic work done by
trustees and to increase awareness and understanding of the trustee role. Often
the ‘unsung heroes’ of the charitable world, trustees are vital to the work of
many not for profit [...]
Guest blog post by Zoe Amar, Marketing and Business Development Manager at
Lasa, a charity which provides services to Shelter, Age UK and thousands of
other charities. Zoe is also on the management team at Bright One and tweets
from @zoeamar I’ve already written about how you can rebrand without breaking
the bank for Charity [...]
Influence n: “the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling
force on or produce effects on the actions, behaviour, opinions, etc, of
others” (source Dictionary.com) In 2002, the Commonwealth Foundation
conducted a piece of research, asking 10,000 people from across the globe to
describe the ‘good society’. The responses revealed that [...]
The Greater London Authority (GLA) and Community Links would like to invite you
to a specialist workshop exploring how you can better measure the success of
your children’s/youth project, to prove to funders and commissioners that you
make a difference. The 3-hour workshops are free, tea and coffee is provided,
and you will be in [...]
Today is blog action day, and over on the Community Links blog we have posted
about our Play Sow and Grow project, based on old Thames Water property near
the pumping station in east London, where young people freely use clean
drinkable water through a hosepipe to help grow plants. Young people in our
part [...]
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