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Let’s go fly a kite!

26 January 2012

Dr Marcia Brophy is a Programme Leader at the Young Foundation and is currently on sabbatical working as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Development Worker and Training Advisor in Jaffna, north Sri Lanka. In this blog post she describes her experiences on World Mental Health Day and explores both positive and negative responses to mental health and wellbeing issues in Sri Lanka.

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Doing the right thing

10 January 2012

The productivity challenge means staff should have a greater role in planning and achieving efficiencies, says Young Foundation programme leader Neil Reeder.

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Growth needs Learning

10 January 2012

Enabling Enterprise founder and CEO Tom Ravenscroft explores the critical role education, especially certain non-conventional approaches to education, can play in generating growth in the UK economy.

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Charitable internships?

5 January 2012

Young Foundation intern Thomas Lyttleton considers third sector internships, and how they could play a critical role in social mobility.

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Hope in the Middle East

23 December 2011

Ginny Lee reflects on her trip to Oman to deliver a one day social enterprise workshop at the Third Annual Muscat Youth Summit in December 2011.

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From our ventures & projects

Deloitte launches search for UK’s most socially innovative businesses

‘Deloitte Social Innovation Pioneers’ was launched today, with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, pioneer of the microfinance movement and worldwide advocate of social business.
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A Community Land Trust for the Olympic Park: Making it work

News that the first new neighbourhood in the Olympic Park could include a “pilot community land trust” scheme creating 80-100 homes is to be welcomed, albeit cautiously.
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Leeds flashdance update

Two weeks ago I blogged about an impending flashdance courtesy of a great group of women at Leeds Older People’s Forum.
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Vote now to support the Jan Foundation in their Natwest CommunityForce Award

The Jan Foundation involver’s volunteers from the community in tackling one of the community’s most damaging issues – domestic violence. Jan Foundation train’s volunteers to give long-term mentoring support to victims of domestic violence. They train and support community groups to find new ways to effectively tackle Domestic Violence in their neighbourhoods.
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Inter Agency Group

This site has now been taken over by the Bemerton Heath Inter-Agency Group! The IAG consists of residents, council, schools, churches, the Trussell Trust, the police – any group that works with or is concerned with Bemerton Heath. Anything that is an issue for Bemerton is an issue for us – from speeding and dog-fowling [...]
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Booze, drugs and fights

One of the real eye-openers for me in doing this research has been seeing just how much alcohol is costing society.
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UK cilility

Starting from scratch

Nine years ago Cambourne was an empty field in the flat Cambridgeshire countryside. Today, the roads are filled with Mini estates in fashionable colours and mothers cycling to pick up their children from school. Birdsong and the smells of manure still fill the air. Towns like this are known as ‘exurbs’ by town planners – new developments that are different to suburbs in that they aren’t annexed to existing cities. Estate agents call it ‘countryside light’, well suited to urbanised professionals who commute into bigger cities and are starting their families.
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