A £10million fund is being made available to charities and social enterprises to help them develop the skills and infrastructure to win more capital investment and public service contracts Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, announced today (July 25th)
The project to replace the 46 Fire and Rescue Services' local control rooms across England with nine purpose-built regional control centres linked by a new IT system has been a comprehensive failure, according to the National Audit Office (July 1st)
Local authority and housing association partnerships are named today as the successful volunteers the Government plans to work with on pioneering demonstration projects that will see claimants in the social rented sector directly receiving monthly housing benefit payments and paying rent to landlords themselves for the first time
The government’s latest proposals to cut local government pensions were rejected by Unite, Britain's biggest union, today (Monday, 9 January)
A group of volunteers that rallied their community to take on, rejuvenate and run a heated open-air swimming pool in Beccles, have received the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award
National housing and regeneration body, the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has invested nearly £700m in helping preserve and enhance England’s built heritage, according to the Agency’s latest biennial report on its heritage assets
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson today announced the delivery partner of his mentoring scheme that has attracted over 1,700 volunteers to spend their spare time mentoring young black boys in need of strong positive role models (July 20th)
Firefighter pension changes could cost taxpayer £210 million as one in four say they will consider leaving the scheme (June 24, 2011)
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced today that he has agreed a deal that will kick-start housing development on the Greenwich Peninsula, creating over 4,000 jobs in the construction of 1,350 new homes by the end of 2015 - a milestone in the delivery of this landmark South East London scheme
A host of new powers to put communities back in charge of their own affairs has become a reality as the Coalition Government's localism agenda takes another major step forward
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