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What’s the big difference about Big Local?

I recently chaired a roundtable discussion about enabling residents to transform their communities for the ...

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The case for fairness commissions is growing

The consequences of welfare reforms, structural changes to both the public sector and industry, the ...

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Leading the fight for fairness

Fairness Commissions have helped pushed the issues of inequality and poverty onto the agenda. But ...

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Placemaking must be framed by fairness and equity

In many ways it is not surprising that the business of creating good places to ...

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When it comes to engagement and building trust, you can’t beat old-fashioned community activism

There is a connection between an individual’s first experience as a volunteer, to their involvement ...

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Understanding how debt problems change our behaviour is the key to better support

A new report based on research in the Netherlands, provides five ways to incorporate latest ...

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What if Christmas was invented in 2014?

The story of Christmas has a magical way of creating a civic spirit that goes ...

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Route map to an enabling state

To improve outcomes we need to give communities and individuals more control of their own ...

Communities Local Government

Findings from Big Lottery’s national wellbeing evaluation

The final results of the Big Lottery Fund’s national wellbeing programme are out and they ...

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Falling pay, less happiness at work

Three million unemployed was the forecast, but we remain still well below that. Perhaps those ...