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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.
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.
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?
Volunteers and friends of the Shipley Leisure Library recount their ‘fantastic, fun and fulfilling’ times on its 20th Birthday
Having a long history of investing in conventional libraries, Carnegie Trust UK’s funding in 1990 allowed for the establishment of the Shipley Leisure Library. Co-founders Anne Renard and Mary Barton wanted to address the lack of leisure facilities for adults with learning difficulties. The Trust funding allowed Shipley Leisure Library to become only the second Library of its kind, offering facilities and resources to adults with learning difficulties and their families.
Commission ideas can help country meet triple challenge of economic, environmental and political crises, House of Lords hears
The findings of the Carnegie UK Trust supported Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, published in the report Making Good Society, received a prestigious endorsement when it was quoted by the Bishop of Leicester in a House of Lords debate which he led to call attention to the role of partnerships between government and civil society in shaping social policy.
A more Civil Economy could bolster a struggling Irish financial sector and be the saviour of small businesses
In the latest publication to be commissioned as part of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, Trinity College’s Jim Stewart explores the theme of growing a more civil economy focused on developing the role of civil society institutions in the Irish financial sector in order to aid the recovery from the financial crisis.
Power to the people as Minister outlines vision of local decision making for communities
The Community Land Trusts 2010 Conference has heard a pledge that communities will be able to have a far greater say on what happens in their local area, including enjoying new rights over housing, planning and development without the need to refer to a centralised planning system.
Trust supports this year's Festival of Politics at Holyrood
The Carnegie UK Trust is proud to be supporting this year’s Festival of Politics taking place later this month at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
Now in its sixth year, the Festival has worked hard to establish itself amongst Edinburgh’s already busy August schedule, and demand for tickets shows that despite the problems that have beset politicians, people are still deeply concerned with political issues, and are still keen to get involved in debating and discussing them.
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.
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