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Festival of Politics 2010
The Carnegie UK Trust is proud to be supporting this year’s Festival of Politics programme which was announced on Monday 5 July 2010.
In sponsoring three different events at the Festival, the Carnegie UK Trust is playing an active in role in ensuring that the award winning Festival, now entering its sixth year, continues to thrive and that the overarching theme of the Festival, Changing Politics, can be a positive one.Boost for Communities to Create Affordable Homes
New Independent Voice for Community Land Trusts
The Community Land Trust movement across England gets a huge boost today with the unveiling of a new National Community Land Trust Network to provide support and services to communities wanting to deliver new affordable homes.
Commission report features in House of Lords debate
Opening yesterday's House of Lords debate on social policy, the Lord Bishop of Leicester pointed to the findings of the Inquiry Commission as published in the report, Making Good Society. Echoing the words of the Commission, the Bishop highlighted the momentous opportunity we have at present of moving from an age of ‘me’ to an age of ‘we’.
Coalition’s Promising Promises
The UK’s new Government is to take forward a key policy initiative championed by the Carnegie UK Trust.
The partnership agreement for the first time coalition government in almost 70 years commits the Government to creating “new trusts that will make it simpler for communities to provide homes for local people”.
Carnegie Times Past: During the last Depression
The Carnegie UK Trust is probably best known for its early investment in libraries and books for libraries. However the Trust has a long history of innovative investment and risk taking. Here we highlight an aspect of such thinking from our archives.
In 1932 – at the height of the depression – the Trust was investing in the Workers’ Educational Association and the British Institute of Adult Education.
The Scottish Village Surf Club
One of the UK’s longest established “silver surfer” groups has just celebrated its tenth birthday. The Airlie Cybercafé in Angus in Scotland has been bringing together older people with time on their hands, to learn computing skills and develop new friendships.
Carnegie UK Trust’s Honorary President William Thomson CBE, Great Grandson of Andrew Carnegie took part in the celebrations. He was joined by Trust Chief Executive, Martyn Evans, who said:
Books Not to Get Your Teeth Into
This year's CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist puts eight page-turning novels about survival in the spotlight. Their stories deal with some of life's most challenging issues in an intelligent and highly accessible way, offering heroes and heroines that young readers can relate to and a life affirming sense of hope.
The judges received 54 nominations for the Carnegie UK Trust-funded prize and 48 nominations for Kate Greenaway Medal from CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) members.
Generating Power
The Carnegie UK Trust is working with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the City Parochial Foundation to develop ways to unlock the potential of organisations to influence change on behalf of their communities.
The Carnegie UK Trust is using “power analysis” to help organisations in London and Yorkshire to build on what they are already achieving to ensure real change is achieved. The Trust will use a mix of workshops and mentoring to enable organisations working at the grassroots to understand where their strengths lie and then to examine ways to exercise that power.
Commission triggers debate on fairer, responsible and sustainable economy
The findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society are to be placed centre stage in a debate on how civil society can build a fairer, more responsible and sustainable financial system.
As part of Foundation Week from 31 May to 4 June, run by the European Foundation Centre in Brussels, the week-long series of presentations, debates and exhibitions about the role of foundations across Europe, a two hour open debate will examine the role civil society can and must play in reshaping the financial sector.
About Me ... by Martyn Evans
I joined the Carnegie UK Trust as Chief Executive in November 2009 having been the Director of Consumer Focus in Scotland, the advocacy body formed through the merger of the Scottish Consumer Council, Postwatch and energywatch. Prior to the merger I was, for 11 years, the Director of the Scottish Consumer Council, a consumer research and policy organisation.
My career before saw me spend five years as the Director of Shelter Scotland and then the Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Scotland for a further five years.
Kumi Naidoo and Jim Stewart publications now available
Two further papers written to inform the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society are now available to download from our website.
Jim Stewart's paper on mutuals and alternative banking looks at the financial crisis in Ireland and the state’s responses. It considers the role of civil society institutions operating in the financial sector in Ireland, and how their role might be expanded. To read more click here.
New Boost for Rural Homes Initiatives
Community organisations trying to build affordable homes in the rural towns and villages of Somerset and Dorset are to get valuable business support from a new partnership.
Resonance and Wessex Community Assets are today revealing details of a two year partnership to pilot a support business for Community Land Trusts across Somerset and Dorset. The 'action research' project is being supported by the Carnegie UK Trust, which promotes sustainable rural communities, using funding secured from the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Inquiry at future of news media seminar - 20 May
Natalie Fenton, one of the lead researchers on the Inquiry's work on democratising media, will be speaking at next month's Future of News Media seminar being held by the Westminster Media Forum.
Natalie, whose research with Goldsmiths University helped inform the Commission's findings and recommendations, will be speaking on an esteemed panel about alternative ways to finance and restructure news media in the UK. To read Goldsmith's research click here.
Click on Wales welcomes Inquiry report - 26 March
A new website, 'Click on Wales' (www.clickonwales.org), has welcomed the Commission’s final report, 'Making good society', heralding the findings as being particularly pertinent to Wales.
In the article, Geraint Talfan Davies identifies relevance for Wales in each of the Commission’s major areas of challenge and opportunity for civil society, paying particular attention to the Inquiry Commission’s recommendations in relation to the media, where he has a specific interest.
The news platform, Click on Wales, is extremely new itself, launched only last month. It was set up and is managed by the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA), an independent, membership-based think tank, of which Geraint is Chair.
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