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Transforming Local Infrastructure Organisations – is it transforming and is it local? 15/05/2012
Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill University and ARVAC National Management Committee) writing in a personal capacity reflects upon the latest intervention from the centre : ” The Transforming Local Infrastructure initiatives is one of those centrally led ideas which appears to be a contradiction of what it says – is it transformative and is it […]
AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS – MORE OF THE SAME OR IS IT ABOUT TO GET WORSE? 15/05/2012
Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill Business School and a Management Committee member of ARVAC – writing in a personal capacity): ” The local election results in the England, Scotland and Wales at the start of the month appeared to confirm most of the predictions across the media – the Liberal Democrats lost (big time) – […]
WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS 01/05/2012
As the excitement (generated by the media) over who will win in London increases and the media / political pundits obsess over the relative scores that Cameron or Miliband have to reach in order to justify their claims that they are “winning” a much more significant story is unfolding below the radar. There are two […]
CUTTING PUBLIC SPENDING IS STILL THE COALITION’S PRIORITY NOT CUTTING TAX AVOIDERS 18/04/2012
There is a sense this past week when you have to blink to check that what you are reading is right. The headlines in the popular press have the Coalition in the UK (and the Conservative bit in particular) the champions of curbing tax avoiders. At the same time the last budget broadly favoured the […]
MAYORS, LOCALISM AND HAVING A VOICE: WHY THIS IS REALLY A MAKEOVER RATHR THAN A NEW START 12/04/2012
There will be a number of local referenda this May on whether we should (in some of the larger cities) opt for an elected mayor. In some places (including Liverpool) there will be elections for a directly elected mayor. This is the “big idea” to transform local politics. It was introduced by New Labour as […]

The Intercom Trust

Intercom began in the summer of 1997, when eight LGB people started meeting in Exeter to discuss our worries about gaps in local services for LGB people and Trans people. There was a need for advocacy for people who encountered homophobic crime, prejudice or discrimination; there was a dreadful lack of community-led social and support groups [...]

living flag: panhandling for reparations (damali ayo)

The street performance that started it all. damali takes the struggle for reparations to the street and gets the job done. In this work, titled living flag, she panhandles for reparations- collecting money from white people and paying it immediately to black people.

http://www.youtube.com/user/damaliayo

TUC Black Workers

The Trade Union Congress campaigns for race equality in the workplace and in the wider community. Here you can find recent TUC information and materials material on the work of [...]

Moving Here

Moving Here explores, records and illustrates why people came to England over the last 200 years and what their experiences were and continue to be. It offers free access, for personal and educational use, to an online catalogue of versions of original material related to migration history from local, [...]

Iniva

Iniva creates exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education and research projects, designed to bring the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible public.

http://www.iniva.org/

CASBAH

A pilot web site for research resources relating to Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian peoples in the UK. You can use the CASBAH web site to search and browse their database and to view the full text survey reports. It is based upon research in the main collections relevant to these areas of [...]

Autograph APB

Autograph ABP is a charity, originally established in 1988 as an international, non-profit-making, photographic arts organisation that educates the public in photography, with a particular emphasis on addressing issues of cultural identity and human rights. It was converted into a charity in 2007. We produce our own programme of exhibitions, [...]

Intercom Trust

Intercom is a lesbian gay bisexual and trans community resource in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, providing help against homophobic and transphobic prejudice, crime and discrimination (including bullying, harassment, abuse, attacks, and threatening behaviour), helping to develop the LGB/T communities, providing professional training and consultancy, and working in partnership with [...]

LGF Online

The Home of the Lesbian and Gay Foundation on the net.

The Lesbian and Gay Foundation provides more direct services and resources to more lesbian, gay and bisexual people than any other charity of its kind in the UK.

We deliver first class and accessible community, health and support services

We provide [...]

Black South West Network

BSWN’s provides access to information on policy and funding programmes, supported by an online capacity building and advice service…

BSWN aims to :

Unlock further funds for the sector Advocate effectively for BME VCS Ensure that the sector is consulted and recognised in policy

Through [...]

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