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		<title>Raising awareness of social enterprise within Defra</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2010/02/raising-awareness-of-social-enterprise-within-defra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[4 Environmental entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Enterprise Strategic Partnership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Guest post by The Plunkett Foundation]

The role of social enterprise in contributing to Defra’s objectives was the flavour of the hour at a recent Defra lunchtime policy seminar (11/2/10). Peter Couchman of the Plunkett Foundation, outlined the multiple outcomes, relevant to goverments, that social enterprises deliver. 
For example, Rockingham Forest Trust in Northamptonshire, which in addition to managing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Communities &#8211; the right to try</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2010/01/rural-communities-the-right-to-try/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This event will be held on 27 January 2010 at the Cavendish Conference Centre, London and will explore a specific and practical proposition to return power to rural communities: the Right to Try.
If a village shop is threatened with closure, the community should have the right to try to replace it before it is sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Get Greener Together</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/12/let%e2%80%99s-get-greener-together/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/12/let%e2%80%99s-get-greener-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2 Sustainable living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CCH]]></category>
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The climate threat is worse than many experts predicted just a few years ago. It affects us all without prejudice.
Many in the co-operative movement draw attention to the climate threat through demonstration or petition, which are valuable actions. The Greener Together &#8211; the co-operative way initiative builds on to those actions by supporting individuals to change their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Communities Taking Control of Service Provision for Older People</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/07/rural-communities-taking-control-of-service-provision-for-older-people/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/07/rural-communities-taking-control-of-service-provision-for-older-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Sector team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[12 Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3 Public services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Guest blog post by Mike Perry of the Plunkett Foundation]

‘Working Together for Older People in Rural Areas&#8217;, a joint project between the Social Exclusion Task Force and Defra, launched their findings last week. The project findings highlighted a range of challenges in providing services to older people in rural areas. A principle finding was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Climate Projections launched (significant!)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/06/uk-climate-projections-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector/2009/06/uk-climate-projections-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Berry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ACRE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transition Towns]]></category>

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This image shows one of the things that happens in the UK if temperatures rise to 35 C on two consecutive days &#8211; the roads melt. So what are the chances of this happening? Well this is the sort of thing that the UK Climate Projections tools, launched by Defra later today (18/6/09), are designed to tell [...]]]></description>
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