Featured Image: Beautiful graphic of the day to day life of Portland Inn by Artist Rebecca Davies Below: Portland Inn working week: creating the potential for a micro economy with ceramics, furniture and architecture workshops….hooray! The Portland Inn Project, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire is creating an artist and community environment where people and economic opportunity are part […]
Read More Interest In a community: Hanley, Stoke on TrentThe idea at the heart of the Urban Health Council Community Health Impact course is to raise a moral highground of reciprocity and accountability in all kinds of planning and service delivery so that everyday people across society can help each other improve the quality of their lives. The intention is to distribute knowledge, research […]
Read More CLean Air for southall + hayes= health equityI’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, […]
Read More Urban Health Council + Centric LabIf 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 […]
Read More Local Amnesty Ambassador for Peace In West Bridgford: contact Saba If you want to get involved: Letter writing, baking, green events: you name it!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 […]
Read More MTVH+Aaron Services Experience, skill+ Team Work: what a difference a day makes!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 […]
Read More Our 2024: Commit Govt to Consent to peace, represent neighbourhoods, build green jobs in cities: walk to work, reduce car pollutionMTVH’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 […]
Read More Considering Levelling Up? Try MTVH’s Social valueWhat 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 […]
Read More Skills? Here’s a few we grew over a lifetime: Cheers, Michael: Kevin and ShaunSometimes 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(!) […]
Read More Great service: MTVH+ Aaron ServicesFeatured 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 […]
Read More When you vote you become visible: care of the electoral process: Nottm City Council
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