Image credit: Carnegie UK Trust (from the Rural Manifesto Report published today)
The experiences of pioneering rural communities in championing sustainable lifestyles can inspire neighbourhoods everywhere according to a report published today by the Carnegie UK Trust, building on evidence gathered through a collaboration with Big Lottery Fund and forty-four organisations and communities on the front line.
The [...]
Lucy Findlay (RISE) | Clare Joy (Hornbeam Centre) | Mary Rayner (Co-operatives UK) | Marlene Barrett (Hornbeam Centre)
One of the roles of Defra’s Social Enterprise Strategic Partnership (SESP) is to raise awareness within Defra to the role social enterprises play in the delivery of Defra’s policy objectives. Our SESP do this in a variety of [...]
Vertical Garden at CaixaForum in Madrid
Image credit: Patrick Breen
Guy Thompson, Executive Director, External Affairs at Natural England, addressed Defra’s Third Sector Advisory Board on Monday (5/10/09). Guy highlighted the value of the third sector to the work of Natural England. He indicated that Natural England were working to publish their third sector policy statement in line with the commitment [...]
The same team within Defra who provided us with this blog has been working on the broader issue of eConsultation. The first example of an online consultation is Food 2030. Food 2030 is a cross-government initiative looking at food strategy over the next 20 years. The Food 2030 team would like to hear your views [...]
Co-operatives UK (one of Defra’s Social Enterprise Strategic Partners) launched ACT ! – a new campaign to get all members of co-operatives to act on climate change before the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December.
ACT ! – Addressing the Climate Threat – is a Europe-wide campaign which aims to co-ordinate and promote the activities of co-operatives across [...]
Huw Irranca-Davies, Defra’s Third Sector Minister (centre), with Debbie Leach of Thames21 and Mick Denness of BTCV
The Muck In4Life roadshow came to the Defra Atrium today. The campaign to get families engaged in environmental volunteering activities has been touring the country and been a part of local events such as County shows. Although Muck In4Life has been working [...]
I have spent the last day in Cambridgeshire on a Rural Experience field trip organised by the Commission for Rural Communities and The Co-operative. We spent the day visiting renewable energy projects including: Coldham wind farm and education centre; Elm Primary School where four pupils talked about their wind turbine and photo voltaic units; McCains [...]
An important part of the work of the Third Sector team is the raising of awareness within Defra of how the Third Sector can help us develop better policies and deliver on our objectives. We take a multi-channel approach to this and one important channel is Defra’s magazine ‘Landscape’ which is produced to a high [...]
Climate change will affect is all. But how will it affect your own community?
We are very keen that third sector organisations do not miss the opportunity for FREE training in the UK Climate Projections tools. These tools are now available online and accessible to everyone. Each region will have a week of ‘Projections in Practice’ (PiP) [...]
As part of the consultation on the refreshed Compact, the Commission for the Compact has arranged a series of events across the country addressing various themes. Below is the latest breakdown of these events (a few details are missing, but the core content is there). Please note that the first event is scheduled for Thursday 3 September [...]
