The London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) are recruiting commisioners. In their words:
The LSDC is looking for senior level experience in the sustainability field, or in a related area. You will have demonstrated outstanding communication and leadership skills and thrive in a highly political environment. Above all, you must bring drive, commitment and practicality to deliver solutions [...]
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Liberating Leadership is a new, practical approach that has been developed by the Community Sector Coalition to recognise and support leadership in community groups and collective community activities. It is about leadership in networks and neighbourhoods, street events and sports clubs, parishes and partnerships, temples and tenants associations, festivals and fetes, music groups and mosques.
Liberating [...]
The Sustainable Development Commission is recruiting for two non-executive directors.
The Sustainable Development Commission is the Government’s independent advisor on sustainable development. It also works to help build the capacity of government and public bodies across the UK to understand and deliver sustainable development; is an advocate for sustainable development within and outside Government; and it [...]
Last night (3/11/09) at the Compact Awards ceremony we won the award for Excellence at a National Level. We are very pleased and already it’s causing a bit of a stir through the department. And so it should. Defra’s Third Sector Team is the grit in the oyster in all of this and we have [...]
NAVCA and NCVO have today (2/11/09) jointly published and free guide to procurement law entitled: Pathways through the Maze. The publication is aimed at:
Anyone in an organisation who works with commissioning, procurement and public services.
All voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises interested or involved in delivering public services.
Public Sector commissioners wanting to improve their engagement [...]
We are very pleased to have been shortlisted as a finalist for the Compact Award for Excellence at a National Level in this year’s Compact Awards. This is awarded to a national partnership, Government department or a national third sector umbrella body for outstanding achievement in promoting and implementing the letter and spirit of the [...]
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 [...]
Hello there! Just a quick post here to introduce myself, I am Joe Taylor and I’m the newest member of the Third Sector Team here in Defra, I joined the team yesterday (19/10/09). I’m really looking forward to working to boost Defra’s capacity to engage with the sector, and also adding to Defra’s capacity to boost the [...]
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Julian Agyeman – Tufts University
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Could the environmental sector do a better job of engaging with ethnic and other minorities and helping them solve their problems? Yes it could, by a long way. According to a new report [...]
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 [...]
