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Improving neighbourhoods by bringing faiths together
June 1, 2015
Find out about two of the Near Neighbours coordinators, Tim Clapton from East London and Becky Brookman from West London, and see how the programme has strengthened communities brought people of different faiths together in their areas.
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Featured project: Cadence Cafe CIC
May 19, 2015
Cadence Café CIC is a family-run community organisation and social enterprise in Tyldelsey, near Wigan. We met Cadence’s Youth Director, Kerry-Anne Bradford.
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A community delivering performance where you least expect it
May 5, 2015
In this blog post you can find out about Assemble Fest in Hull, a community theatre festival taking in place in shops and local businesses in Hull’s Newland Avenue.
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Guest blog: Helping the community to help themselves
April 15, 2015
This guest blog was sent to us by Chris Jacobsen, the Communications Manager at Hull 2020 Champions. Hull 2020 helps residents turn ideas for their community into a reality. Using their ‘Community Kick-starter’ programme the project help locals identify what they need …
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Submit 2 Success: alternatives to a traditional youth club
March 10, 2015
Ralph Presgrave is project coordinator for Submit 2 Success. In this guest blog Ralph writes about how he left his role as a youth worker to devote his time to this community project that uses sport to reduce anti-social behaviour …
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Guest blog: Street Dance and the Community
January 26, 2015
This guest blog comes from Tamika Abaka-Wood from Barking & Dagenham Youth Dance (BDYD). Tamika began dancing with the group as a teenager, and 11 years later still works with the organisation as a dance teacher.
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Guest blog: Sporting Communities
January 14, 2015
Ben Rigby is Director at Sporting Communities CIC, an organisation set up in 2012 that works with communities to help them run sport, recreation and play activities. In this guest blog, Ben tells us about the organisation’s journey and the …
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How we have made a real change in our community using Neighbourhood Planning
December 10, 2014
Bob Fletcher is involved in developing a Neighbourhood Plan in Inner East Preston, Lancashire and has received support through the Supporting Neighbourhood Planning programme. In this guest blog, he shares how his area has developed a Neighbourhood Plan, as well as …
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Inspirational community projects in Crewe
December 4, 2014
As part of Alex Flower’s work as a Grant Administrator at CDF, he recently visited some community projects in Crewe. You can read the first instalment of Alex’s reflections on projects he met in this blog post entitled ‘Meeting the …
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Meeting the groups making a difference
October 15, 2014
Alex Flower is a Grant Administrator at CDF. He works on the Community First programme to give out small grants to community projects. Community First is an £80million government-funded initiative, running for four years until March 2015. As a Grant …
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