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Thursday Nov 28th Nov 2024: M&S a great place to work+shop thanks to everyone who worked on this across supply chains!

Above: M&S Veg ( Seasonal Vegetables and Salad) beautifully presented in the refurbished M&S Albert Road West Bridgford 9am 28th November 2024 Hooray for everyone who, through their workplace, supply chain, shopping loyalty are ‘willing’ M&S to improve things across the supply chains: (20 year contract with Wates Construction due for renewal, Harper Adams, collaborative […]

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Assisted Dying: it’s more than a choice

The issue of Assisted Dying is a place where all the problems of social inequalities, a socially exclusionary supply chain way of delivering services and a legacy of patronage are quite likely to overwhelm Kim Leadbeater’s brilliant mission to change things for the better. Below: Danny Dorling’s mapping of economic, cultural and social health inequalities. Parliament […]

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The Election of Don Trump: Make Britain Well Again 3

Featured Image: Map of the states American Election 2024 AP News 7:00am Donald Trump has won the US election: what this means here, now in West Bridgford (and Rushcliffe) is that we need localisation, better understanding of everyone who lives here and building a conversation that will rejuvenate relationships across the lifespan. It’s because the […]

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People+environment grow with the right approach: Streetwise (2)

“It looks very handsome with mown walkways but leaving the cowslips. Also the new tree plantings make excellent sheltered hot spots for butterflies “I really appreciate the attention spent on our area and the local wildlife.” Rushcliffe householder, Collington Way April 2022 Above: long view of our meadow looking toward Rushcliffe Arena April 2022 (Streetwise) […]

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Make britain well again: Hospital carparks+medilink

Featured Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service Image of QMC BBC article about energy efficient windows Oct 22 The Medilink Service is part of Nottingham’s community transport network, CT4N established as Nottingham Voluntary Transport in 1979, Nottingham Community Transport in 1988 becoming CT4N in 2016. Medilink is part of that community service with Nottingham City Council. […]

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the son is the father of the man: in every neighbourhood look for community

Featured Image: Allie Hill, son of Wes of Hills Decorators (founded by David Hill in 1969). The child is the father of the man is in My Heart Leaps Up, a poem by Wordsworth (whose brother, John captained a treasure filled East India Company ship that sank a mile and a half from Weymouth Bay). […]

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Under Privileged Eyes: Culture as Medicine, Never A Drug: Make Every Prisoner Wanted, Cared For, Back To Learning, A Good Job and Place To Call Home: we all need this!

Featured Image: Roger Savage’s work for Buro Happold for new housing developments in Rushcliffe, Toton and Leicestershire with East Midlands Development Company ‘…I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and […]

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Roofspace+ Damp: InsulatE(+ventilate) Steve Newcombe MTVH

Featured Image: MTVH’s Steve Newcombe’s review of the roof space in my maisonette July 2024 I live in social housing and interestingly, the place I live overlooks a really interesting story of community, neighbourhood, participation and economic growth linked to that activity: I’m using that sense of place past and present to listen to and […]

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Neighbourly Skills: Streetwise: Martin, Steve, Dimitri+Dave

Featured Image: Streetwise’s Dimtri reducing epicormic growth on Highfield Road West Bridgford Thursday 15th August 2024 In 2023/24 Streetwise Rushcliffe Borough Council, established thirty-five years ago (as their Facebook page notes) was re-integrated back into Rushcliffe Borough Council, along with its income from external customers such as ViaEM In West Bridgford we see Streetwise Rushcliffe […]

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