Urban Health Council + Centric Lab

I’ve just completed the most amazing online course run by a really interesting and dynamic team of neuroscientists at Urban Health Council+Centric Lab The team put their learning, expertise, networks and research at the disposal of people like me who are interested, involved and engaged in a wide range of community change and development projects, […]

Local Amnesty Ambassador for Peace In West Bridgford: contact Saba If you want to get involved: Letter writing, baking, green events: you name it!

If we listen and act on the voices of children and young people, whether it’s about Online Safety, the world they want to see or in supporting them in our local neighbourhoods, I think we can reintroduce representation and democracy wherever we are. Whether it’s West Bridgford 2023 showing solidarity with Ukraine, Rushcliffe to stop […]

MTVH+Aaron Services Experience, skill+ Team Work: what a difference a day makes!

Featured Image: Aaron Services Gas fitter Jack Powles who fitted a replacement boiler EcoTEC sustain Above:EcoTEC Vaillant boiler that Jack and the Aaron team fitted in my maisonette before Christmas. Jack has gone from learning with his dad (who also works at Aaron) from the age of fourteen, to apprentice to his dad then working […]

Our 2024: Commit Govt to Consent to peace, represent neighbourhoods, build green jobs in cities: walk to work, reduce car pollution

In 2024 let’s commit our governments to consent to peace. Let’s have a government that represents neighbourhoods, builds green jobs in the cities, so many people can walk to work, let’s reduce car pollution (UN emissions day is 26th Jan 2024) and in every organisation let’s use tech to reduce excessive bureaucracy and unnecessary rules […]

Considering Levelling Up? Try MTVH’s Social value

MTVH’s Social Value work with their larger contractors such as Pinnacle and Aaron Services is re-engineering the potential of a local levelling up because it’s building relationship and capacity. It’s all about the people….do you wonder sometimes how your organisation, or business can a) get to know and understand better the people who work with […]

Skills? Here’s a few we grew over a lifetime: Cheers, Michael: Kevin and Shaun

What do we think as a country about repairs? We know we’re a damp, draughty country: and in 2023 we now have levelling up (and Michael Gove) Levelling up minister Michael Gove currently looking for a way to make things right with the environment What we also need is a re imagination of the relationship […]

Great service: MTVH+ Aaron Services

Sometimes guttering and boiler problems are interconnected: Living across from a mature tree lined park Above: MTVH maisonette overlooking Greythorn Park (set up when one of the new residents in the 1960’s thought ‘this new estate needs a park for the children’ and organised a petition means, all these years later, in 2023, that’s sixty(!) […]

When you vote you become visible: care of the electoral process: Nottm City Council

Featured Image: Oxfam’s Your Vote Is Your Voice visual used in USA elections After working on the May elections for Nottingham City Council our team received a follow up letter after our paid electoral work experience from the Chief Exec of the council Mel Barrett. Above: Local Government Chronicle article about Mel Barrett: This Is […]

Customer+ Engineer working together to solve a problem: teach + Learn (1) Pressure

Aaron Services are the gas contractor for MTVH I contacted Aaron Services as the pressure on my boiler had dropped and the radiators wouldn’t come on. Ben explained that I could increase the pressure by removing a plate on the boiler (with a key) and turning the boiler pressure clockwise with the key (see video […]

HMRC JObs with ApprentIceships (100 across the UK -closing date 31st July 2023)

Have you ever wondered about working in government, do you have a parent, grandparent, friend or relative working for the Council or the Civil Service? Do you see your local councillors working hard in difficult situations, do you see your local MPs out in the constituency as I do and then back in parliament and […]