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Social innovation mayor?

25 October 2011

Young Foundation Director Nicola Bacon recently undertook a whistlestop tour of three Korean cities- Bucheon, Jeonju and the capital Seoul. In this blog post she explores the state of social innovation in these regions of Korea, what we can learn from the Korean attitude towards social innovation, and the possible election of a new social innovation Mayor for Seoul, Mr Woon Son Park, former Executive Director of Korea's Hope Institute and the liberal parties' candidate for Mayor.

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Encountering incivility

21 October 2011

Assumptions which link incivility with diversity and disadvantage are very often wrong: a recent report found that it's the middle aged men in suits who regularly come in for harsh criticism, says Phoebe Griffith

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Youth unemployment: looking past the headlines

20 October 2011

Is this the worst time in recent history to be a young person in the UK?

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Somers Town: Perceptions of Place

6 October 2011

Exploring different perceptions of place is essential in understanding social and physical changes to an area as the case of Somers Town demonstrates.

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Cohesion: prevention, action and vision

30 September 2011

Political discourse around cohesion in the UK has come down to a simplistic juxtaposition between those "who obey our laws" and those who don't. The government needs to re-think its laissez-faire policy on cohesion, says Phoebe Griffith.

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From our ventures & projects

New Disability Innovation Fund in New Zealand open for applications

The Minister for Social Development and Employment, Paula Bennett and the Minister for Disability Issues, Tariana Turia, announced the new Disability Innovation Fund making $500,000 available for innovative ways of getting disabled people into work or retaining them in work. “I am particularly pleased that all innovative proposals that are received from the sector will be shared with the welfare reform team to inform its work programme on supporting disabled people into employment” says minister Bennett.
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Tottenham Together: Voices from Tottenham after the 2011 riots

Haringey Council has established a Community Panel to understand how they viewed the impact of the recent riots on Tottenham. The Panel will develop recommendations to ensure continued confidence in Tottenham as a place where people choose to live, work, study and invest.
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Vote now to support the Jan Foundation in their Natwest CommunityForce Award

The Jan Foundation involver’s volunteers from the community in tackling one of the community’s most damaging issues – domestic violence. Jan Foundation train’s volunteers to give long-term mentoring support to victims of domestic violence. They train and support community groups to find new ways to effectively tackle Domestic Violence in their neighbourhoods.
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Building digital activism in Elephant & Castle

In June, we reported on a number of ways in which local communities were using digital tools to build local activism. Since that time, digital activism at the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle has grown, providing inspiring examples of how communities can mobilise effectively through the web.
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Inter Agency Group

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 [...]
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Booze, drugs and fights

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

Starting from scratch

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.
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