Blog posts March 2011
Clore Social Leadership Programme 2012
Thursday, 31 March 2011 - 12:00pm
Just a note to all blog readers that the Clore Social Leadership Programme 2012 Fellowships will open on April 18th 2011. The Clore Social Leadership Programme is an ambitious attempt to build leadership capacity in the third sector at a time when the challenges and complexities of leadership in the third sector continue to grow.
The Programme aims to identify, develop and connect aspiring leaders in the wider third sector who are working for the benefit of individuals and communities across the UK. The wider third sector includes a full range of social purpose non-profit activity –...
Big Society on the ground floor
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 - 3:53pm
One of my colleagues (how do they find these things?) emailed me a link to Calouste Gulbenkian's video on what Big Society looks like on the ground floor and what those individuals who are driving this kind of work think about the agenda. Definitely worth checking out:
[vimeo 21201893 w=400 h=225]The Big Society - A View From The Frontline from Setla Productions on Vimeo.
The People's Supermarket - For the people, by the people
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 - 2:21pm
By Sophie Byrne
I thought my housemate and I were ahead of the game with this find… but seeing as David Cameron has already cottoned on and there has been a Channel 4 series about the store I am feeling decidedly out of the loop. However, The People’s Supermarket is very cool and definitely deserves a blog.
Started by chef Arthur Potts Dawson and ex-M&S Commercial Executive Kate Bull, The People’s Supermarket is a food cooperative that aims to bring reasonably priced, “independently produced food and a more sustainable, communitarian form of grocery shopping” to UK cities. The shop...
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