Green Communities is a programme from the Energy Saving Trust that aims to support, facilitate and promote community energy projects. Whether you want to improve the energy efficiency of a community building, install renewable energy technology to generate your own energy, or promote energy saving – the Energy Saving Trust offers the knowledge, experience and [...]
As Compact Week nears the end we have today (6/11/2009) published our Third Sector Strategy ‘One Year On’ report (PDF 1MB). The report discusses the progress we have made on the range of commitments we made in our Third Sector Strategy (PDF 4.17MB).
The report is accompanied by a detailed annex (PDF 920KB) which contains a commentary on the [...]
“There is more and more interest in measuring and valuing the impact of organisations on society. The Measuring Social Value Project is hosting a conference where third sector organisations, commissioners and investors will come together to share experiences of how Social Return on Investment (SROI) – one of the most exciting innovations in this field [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
On 18 September 2009 Capacity Global will launch their report and maniesto: ’21 Years On: Environment and Diversity’. Professor Julian Agyeman (pictured) will be the keynote speaker at the event. Julian is a member of Capacity Global’s Advisory Board and Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, at the Massachusetts-based Tufts University.
This is an open, [...]
Yesterday afternoon (17 August 2009) the third sector members of the Ministerial Task Force on climate change, the environment and sustainable developmnet met for the fourth time with officials from the four departments involved. Roger Clarke, chair of Defra’s Third Sector Advisory Board, was also in attendance.
The Task Force first addressed the vision, audience and overall [...]
Direct from the Defra website:
Scouts and Girl Guides watched a new recruit working for his volunteering badge when Jim Fitzpatrick visited the Scout Jamboree at the Windsor Great Park yesterday (4/8/09). Defra had a Muck In4Life stand at the Jamboree; the campaign aims to encourage families and people of all ages to get out and [...]
The Ministerial Task Force met for the third time on 30 July 2009 at One Queen Anne’s Gate, London. The minutes of the meeting can be downloaded here (pdf, 57 KB).
[This post was back dated. Actual date of posting was 27/8/09.]
We have been asked by several people for copies of the presentations from yesterday’s (28/7/09) UK Cliamte Projections event. Rather that email them out individually I have placed them on slideshare.net so you can either view them here (click read more) or download the original file from Slideshare.
