Here is an update from the NCIA planning group meeting on 6 September 2011. Let us know if you are interested in joining the planning group or if you want to comment or contribute to anything mentioned below. Email: info@independentaction.net
Or you might like to come to an assembly meeting – more information here.… Continue reading
Read the notes from the latest NCIA Assembly on 26th October 2010 for an update on what people are doing to stop local cuts, generate useful research and mobilise nationally. For NCIA it was a call to connect people with each other, get alternative views out there and keep on challenging harmful commissioning and the … Continue reading
Just Wage campaign calls on Unite members. In 2010, the UK’s biggest trades union UNITE will hold elections for the post of General Secretary – their most senior elected officer. Just Wage is asking the candidates in this election to commit to:
1. a just wage within their organisations and
2. support for a campaign … Continue reading
Read about the Big Society Show, cuts, more cuts, opposition and how to be more like the French – and a must for your diary, details of the NCIA Assembly on 26th October for who’s doing what to stop the cuts. … Continue reading
Here’s a new paper from NCIA member Adrian Barritt who highlights the fundamental choices that CVSs must make to respond to cuts and the Big Society Show. Adrian argues that joining up into bigger structures, which appears be the developing response, will undermine people’s ability to be locally rooted, self reliant, creative and flexible. The … Continue reading
Listen to NCIA’s Andy Benson air his views on social enterprise in this BBC Radio Wales interview.
Sean Creighton lists the questions to ask local politicians on their apparent interest in community action, and highlights the gap between rhetoric and practice.
“A key element in the Party political battle leading up to May’s local and national elections was over developing a new role for community and voluntary organisations in running services and … Continue reading
“Only governments can provide adequate basic public services” …..Here’s what Bernard Davies from NCIA said of the Big Idea coming out of the other Coalition, when he talked to North West community activists at their conference in Manchester in September 2010.
“My starting point for the Big Society unashamedly looks at its political and economic … Continue reading
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Ideas from some local voluntary groups to balance certainty with uncertainty so you might survive the impact of external economic and political factors and your ability to respond to community needs.
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