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20/08/10
Prime Minister should go to Gigha to see “Big Society” idea flourishing
Foremost Scottish land reform campaigner says more communities must be given the opportunity – and backing – to run rural enterprises for themselves.
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12/08/10
Carnegie Commission leading UK foundations response to financial crisis
The work of the Commission of Inquiry has been recently referred to in an article published on one of the leading online current affairs websites.
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02/08/10
Carnegie UK Trust and Britain’s Youth Hostel Movement
Access to the countryside was seen as a major welfare issue for people living in Britain’s cities in the 1930s. People were actively encouraged to head for the hills for days off. But that, in turn, created a new challenge: where would people stay once they got into the countryside?
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Rural Development and the LEADER Approach

The LEADER initiative is widely regarded as one of Europe's most successful regeneration programmes. Established since the early 1990's, it is no longer a pilot scheme for bottom up rural development- but has now been integrated into mainstream rural development policy. It is now an approach to the delivery of Rural Development Programmes throughout Europe.

Annual Review 2009

The Annual Review of the Carnegie UK Trust 2009 – a year of valuable work strengthening democracy and civil society, and enhancing the wellbeing of rural communities.

Making good society

Making good society, the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, argues that civil society has been pushed to the margins in key areas including politics, finance and the media and that this must change. The report explores how civil society activity can help: grow a more civil economy; enable a rapid and just transition to a low carbon economy; democratise media ownership and content; and grow participatory and deliberative democracy.

Events

01/09/10
Growing Wales’s Civil Society
The Institute of Welsh Affairs supported by Carnegie UK Trust are holding four early evening seminars in Cardiff Bay’s Pierhead Building during October and November to discuss how much Wales’s Civil Society has grown in the first decade of devolution.
The seminars will follow the main themes in Making Good Society, the final report of the independent Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland.
Growing a more civil economy - 14 October
Chair: Professor Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University
Simon Harris, Wales Co-operative Centre
Molly Scott Cato, Cardiff Institute for Co-operative Studies, UWIC
Ian Courtney, Director Wales, Charity Bank
Katija Dew, National Financial Inclusion Champion for Wales

Transition to a low carbon economy - 21 October
Chair: Peter Davies, Sustainable Development Commissioner for Wales
Helen Northmore, Energy Saving Trust
Lee Waters, Sustrans Cymru
Helen Nelson, Cynnal Cymru : Sustain Wales
Anne Meikle, WWF Cymru
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31/08/10
Party conference events on growing a civil economy - 21 Sept and 6 Oct
The Carnegie UK Trust is supporting two events at party conferences this year. The focus of the events will be:
Growing a more civil economy through civil society
Amongst all the political energy that is focused on reducing the national deficit and rebuilding the public finances, what kind of economy do we want to emerge? This urgent and important seminar will look at the challenges facing politicians, economists and crucially all of those people and organisations who commit time and energy to creating a better society. Focusing on the roles civil society associations can play, including voluntary and community organisations, trade unions, faith-based organisations, cooperatives and mutuals, this event will explore how a civil economy can be grown that is more aligned with values that emphasise responsibility, good governance, human well-being and environmental sustainability.
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