Counting the Cuts: The impact of spending cuts on the UK voluntary and community sector is a new report published today by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). Following a collaborative project to map stories of voluntary groups told their funding will be reduced – and analysing the government’s projected spending plans for the …
Seven links and five blogs to delve into #sevenlinks
Thank you Kate Hughes for being so kind on your blog post for the seven links blogging idea – one which encourages bloggers to talk about some of their older blog posts and share who they follow and read. I’ve also read Dan Slee’s post on the same, full of more inspiration., Not normally …
Creative Councils, Podnosh and a partnership in Brighton.
I’m delighted to say the the Brighton and Hove Council proposal to the Nesta Creative Councils challenge has made it to the final 17 long list of 137 applications. Why so? Well Podnosh is one of the partner organisations in the Brighton bid along with Demsoc and Public-i. Creative councils: ambition over the next two …
Open data, corporations, companies charities and some remarkable progress
Chris Taggart is one of the main energy bundles behind real practical progress in open data in the UK. besides starting to scrape local government websites to create the the remarkable openlylocal, and then casually setting up open charities (open data for information about charities) he has also been working on making information about business …