Lies, damn lies and poor excuses!’ So ran my post looking at the ways poverty is variously defined to reveal (or disguise) the impact of austerity within local communities across the UK. The deeper the effects of service cuts and reducing household income may bite, the more we need...
Conferences on Sustainable Living can be very tricky things! The term ‘sustainable’ can itself be quite ambiguous, even elusive. I was at one such conference a while back … which just happened to be in Letchworth … which just happens to be England’s First Garden City … which just happens to...
These days, we tend to talk freely and easily about social enterprise … but do we really have a common understanding of what we mean by it? This was the thought that sprang to mind when I read of the demise of the ‘not-for-profit’ Hadrian’s Wall Trust as set...
Here in the land of Myopia, we are forever trying to support local communities to improve economic circumstances and quality of life for residents – especially in neighbourhoods regarded as relatively disadvantaged. The trouble is, we are sure that we are doing something wrong – but for the life...