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There are 23 posts tagged big society (this is page 1 of 3).

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Big Society Fund opens for bids again

Wandsworth’s Big Society Fund opens for another round of bids (although at the time of writing the web page doesn’t reflect this) on Monday.

1 August, 2014 | Comment

Neighbourhood Watch and Big Society

A bit of lazy blogging.

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in Community Safety | 29 June, 2011 | 1 Webmention | Comment

Maslow for government

Nat Wei, the Government’s Big Society advisor, has an interesting blog which often highlights good Big Society examples.

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in Politics | 9 March, 2011 | 2 Comments

Wandsworth Challenge

I am excited to see the Wandsworth Challenge finally launch a public face this week.

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in Wandsworth | 26 January, 2011 | Comment

What motivates people

I have been a rubbish blogger recently.

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in Politics, Wandsworth | 23 December, 2010 | Comment

The council doesn’t have all the answers

“The council doesn’t have all the answers” was one of the closing comments by the council’s deputy leader, Maurice Heaster, during a debate on the Wandsworth Challenge last week.

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in Politics, Wandsworth | 13 December, 2010 | Comment

Public health in Wandsworth

Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health, came to Wandsworth to launch the public health white paper yesterday.

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in Health | 1 December, 2010 | 1 Comment

The inevitable failure of Big Society?

Wearing various hats I’ve found myself spending a lot of time talking about the Big Society recently (including, if you’ll forgive the name-dropping, with Nat Wei) and one common theme has emerged: failure.

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in Politics | 26 November, 2010 | 2 Comments

Technology isn’t always the answer

Years ago, as a new councillor, one of the old salts told me that he now couldn’t go anywhere in the country without seeing a housing estate and looking for indications of how many of the houses or flats had been bought or how the estate was managed.

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in Health | 17 November, 2010 | Comment

Fly tipping: the council’s fault?

Several weeks ago I posed the question does the council actually hinder people doing the right thing?

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in Politics | 3 November, 2010 | 6 Comments

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