AHHHA is a new and unique Californian startup providing a platform for what they call the social ideation - discussion and collaboration on ideas submitted by anyone.

Know Urself Community Interest Community is looking for enthusiastic young People to join their New Peer Education & Mentoring programme in Sexual Health & Healthy Relationships. This is a unique opportunity to gain experience and raise awareness amongst your peers whilst building experience and getting a qualification at the same time.    Successful candidates will need to be:

Communities can make things happen in New York City; that seems to be the lesson of the High Line, the fêted public park opened in 2009. But do the dynamics of the park’s creation and management really reflect local community needs and aspirations? New York City’s most glamorous park, the High Line was opened with [...]

As part of our Building Local Activism programme, funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s People Powered Change activities, we are beginning work with four community groups* for our Digital Activism strand. We will support these communities to develop campaigns that use digital tools to lobby for change locally. Between now and March 2013 we will [...]

This site has now been taken over by the Bemerton Heath Inter-Agency Group! The IAG consists of residents, council, schools, churches, the Trussell Trust, the police – any group that works with or is concerned with Bemerton Heath. Anything that is an issue for Bemerton is an issue for us – from speeding and dog-fowling [...]

One of the real eye-openers for me in doing this research has been seeing just how much alcohol is costing society.

Nine years ago Cambourne was an empty field in the flat Cambridgeshire countryside. Today, the roads are filled with Mini estates in fashionable colours and mothers cycling to pick up their children from school. Birdsong and the smells of manure still fill the air. Towns like this are known as ‘exurbs’ by town planners – new developments that are different to suburbs in that they aren’t annexed to existing cities. Estate agents call it ‘countryside light’, well suited to urbanised professionals who commute into bigger cities and are starting their families.

Whole Education Conference 2010, Monday 6th December | 10.30am – 4.45pm As a new government tackles education reform and economic uncertainty persists, the challenges for young people have never been greater. This conference brings together leading figures from education, business, academia, local government and the youth sector to explore how these groups can work together [...]

Tuesday 13 July 2010 saw the launch of the UpRising year 2010-2011. The event was graciously hosted by the Macquarie Group Foundation. Participants were welcomed to the venue by Lord Gus Macdonald, current Chairman of Macquarie’s Investment Banking Group in Europe. Jonny Zander, Director of Kaizen Partnership, ran an interactive workshop where participants were able [...]