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 Delivering the last session of a course of 'Community Champions' in the Midlands made me realise how sometimes we miss the most obvious things in empowering and working with communities. This course was delivered to mainly tenants of Registered Social Landlords and was aimed to improve the community relations across different housing estates.  It was one of the first times I was asked to deliver this type of course to the mainstream British population (if there ever was such...

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 Its Social Enterprise Eve at P3 !!! Its No 10 tomorrow for the SE reception hosted by the PM himself I'm polishing the elevator pitch as I write: MK ' why don't we commission more Social Enterprise services that pull systems , organisations, professions, agencies, departments together for example, across the midlands and in London my organiastion  P3 provides a range of preventative services for socially excluded people across the spectrum of need - f...

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“In the longer term, public services need to be built around people – their aspirations and their needs – not around existing services or institutional structures. As the Varney report pointed out, ‘citizens who need various services are left to join up the various islands’. This has to change.” Jamie Bartlett, Demos, Getting More for Less 2009 http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/getting-more-for-less I attended the launch of "getting mor...

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