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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
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.
Event at TUC Congress 14 Sept - Media for All; The Democratic Challenge
Following the publication of Making Good Society, the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, the Carnegie UK Trust is supporting a fringe event organised by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom at the TUC Conference to explore the crucial role of news media in empowering peoples’ participation in public debate at a time of cut backs in regional and local media. Drawing on the findings of Making Good Society, the event will explore how civil society organisations can contribute to a more democratic news media.
Speakers include Jeremy Dear, general secretary NUJ, Jude Gordon Manchester NUJ, Joyce McMillan (Chair and member of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society) and Granville Williams (CPBF).
Community Land Trusts Practitioner's seminar, 3-4 November, The Eden Project
The next CLT Practitioner's Residential Seminar is kindly being hosted by Cornwall CLT Ltd and Carnegie partner, the Eden Project in November. Looking into themes such as Housing and Beyond; How Housing Associations can assist CLTs and Accessing Appropriate Finance, the seminar also offers a study visit to some of the operating CLTs in Cornwall.
We are very keen to welcome newcomers to CLTs to this seminar and will run sessions like: 'Everything you need to know about CLT’s but were afraid to ask' and 'Involving Your Community.'
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.
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.
Events for Trusts and Foundations
The Carnegie UK Trust is co-hosting two events this autumn with the Assocation of Charitable Foundations (ACF) in relation to the findings of the Carnegie funded Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. The events will focus on two of the core themes the Inquiry Commission highlighted as being crucial to developing a healthy civil society for the future.
The role of trusts and foundations in democratising media, September, London
This event will explore the distinctive roles that trusts and foundations can play in supporting the development of a strong, pluralistic news media in the interest of enriching democracy and strengthening civil society.
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.
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.
The Bishop, the Right Reverend Tim Stevens highlighted the “remarkable moment of opportunity” that the UK finds itself in for civil society to play a key role in shaping wider society, and echoed the words of the Commission report in saying that the UK can make a “transition from an age of ‘me’ to an age of ‘we’”.
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.
'Is Peace Worth Fighting For?' 18 August
As part of the Festival of Politics 2010, this Carnegie sponsored event will be held in the Main Chamber of the Scottish Parliamant from 16.00 to 17.00.
There is a strong tradition of both pragmatism and ethics in international affairs. The idealism of past generations established the League of Nations in attenpts to reduce conflicts and aggression. Politicians have to wrestle with the national interest, the security of citizens and their own principles- amongst many competing pressures- before coming to momentous decisions. Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC MP and Joel Rosenthal, President of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. will debate the idea of just war, peace, and security in a modern global society. Chaired by The Very Reverend Graham Forbes, Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Solutions to the Crisis in News Media and Representative Democracy - 18 August
More information about the event can be found below.Solutions to the Crisis in News Media and Representative Democracy; the Importance of Civil Society Activity13.30 - 15.00, The Scottish Parliament (FREE)A thriving democracy and civil society has always been dependent on strong and free news media that is truthful, accurate and rigorous. The demise of traditional news media coupled with the lack of trust in representative democracy present major challenges to politics and to citizen engagement.
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’.