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		<title>Commissioners wanted: London Sustainable Development Commission</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/commissioners-wanted-london-sustainable-development-commission/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/commissioners-wanted-london-sustainable-development-commission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[12 Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LSDC]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defra wins social action research contract</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/defra-wins-social-action-research-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/defra-wins-social-action-research-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[10 Enabling our delivery bodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11 Better commissioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 Sustainable living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3 Public services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4 Environmental entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7 Understanding the sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[8 Joining things up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Enterprise Strategic Partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social enterprise]]></category>

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Happy Social Enterprise Day!
Today (19/11/09) Angela Smith, Minister for the third sector, announced the second phase of the Office of the Third Sector’s £1.3m Social Enterprise Action Research (SEAR) programme, which allows other departments to explore ways in which social enterprises offer solutions to policy problems.  The Social Enterprise Action Research programme uses small amounts of Cabinet Office funding to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Communities: turning ideas into action event</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/green-communities-turning-ideas-into-action/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/green-communities-turning-ideas-into-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2 Sustainable living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5 Environmental leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9 Better partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embedding sustainable development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Saving Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Communities]]></category>

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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 &#8211; the Energy Saving Trust offers the knowledge, experience and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberating Leadership &#8211; a fresh perspective from the community sector</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/liberating-leadership-a-fresh-perspective-from-the-community-sector/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/liberating-leadership-a-fresh-perspective-from-the-community-sector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[12 Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3 Public services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6 Improving communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7 Understanding the sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[8 Joining things up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9 Better partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Sector Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debra Allcock-Tyler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberating Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/?p=837</guid>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacancies at the Sustainable development Commission</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/vacancies-at-the-sustainable-development-commission/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/vacancies-at-the-sustainable-development-commission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[10 Enabling our delivery bodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SDC]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defra research published: Benefits of third sector organisations in waste management.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/defra-research-published-benefits-of-third-sector-organisations-in-waste-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/defra-research-published-benefits-of-third-sector-organisations-in-waste-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Taylor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7 Understanding the sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[8 Joining things up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Environment Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resource Futures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resources for Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SROI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Defra has funded three research projects relating to social enterprise and waste management.
   
The first of these has been published and provides evidence of the wide range of social, economic and environmental benefits that are gained when social enterprises engage in the delivery of waste services.  The report is entitled &#8221;Benefits of Third Sector Involvement in Waste Management&#8220;.  This research used an abridged version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Sector Strategy &#8216;One Year On report&#8217; published</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/third-sector-strategy-one-year-on-report-published/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/third-sector-strategy-one-year-on-report-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1 Advocacy voice campaigning policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10 Enabling our delivery bodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11 Better commissioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 Sustainable living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3 Public services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4 Environmental entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5 Environmental leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6 Improving communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7 Understanding the sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[8 Joining things up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9 Better partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/?p=785</guid>
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As Compact Week nears the end we have today (6/11/2009) published our Third Sector Strategy &#8216;One Year On&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defra wins Compact Award for Excellence at a National Level</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/defra-wins-compact-award-for-excellence-at-a-national-level/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/defra-wins-compact-award-for-excellence-at-a-national-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[12 Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACRE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Action Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keep Britain Tidy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LCRN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tree Council]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/?p=777</guid>
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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&#8217;s causing a bit of a stir through the department. And so it should. Defra&#8217;s Third Sector Team is the grit in the oyster in all of this and we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Compact Week!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/happy-compact-week/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/happy-compact-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[10 Enabling our delivery bodies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forestry Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural England]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
This week is Compact Week, the week in the year that helps raise awareness of The Compact and acts as a useful focus to get things done. Last year, during Compact Week, Defra launched its Third Sector Strategy. This year, during Compact Week, we hope to be able to publish a report on the progress that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free procurement guide clarifies commissioning process</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/free-procurement-guide-clarifies-commissioning-process/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/11/free-procurement-guide-clarifies-commissioning-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[11 Better commissioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAVCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCVO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publications]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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