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The value of scale, the power of small

There is much talk these days about the need for social action and innovation to be scaled up. As the public sector retracts there are calls for social enterprises to expand and run public services, and for great examples of social action to be built on and replicated.

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Is it the fiddler really a rogue?

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Seeing through ‘the fog’: Local government resource review in London

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Book review: Lessons for the Big Society

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Power to the people

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The People’s Budget – an antidote to meaningless consultation

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A People’s Budget: why not just do it?

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Big Society, big economic shift?

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The wisdom of crowds

Lamanche Community Farm was funded through Kickstarter

Crowdfunding is now a legal form of finance for start-ups in the US. Storm Cunningham looks at the success of the model on local renewal in the first of two articles from his new book ReCivilising: Rise of the Renewal Renegades

There’s nothing new about citizens banding together to provide a service their local government should be providing, but isn’t… or to stop their local government from doing (or supporting) something they are doing, but shouldn’t be. There’s also nothing new about citizens using social media to organize such activities more efficiently.