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Government and the Third Sector: relationships at local level
Voluntary Action Scotland, SCVO
Date: 2010-03-04
Councils are putting price ahead of quality when commissioning public services from the voluntary sector, according to new research. ...more

Social Enterprise Mark
Senscot
Date: 2010-03-03
After consulting with the social enterprise community in Scotland, Senscot asked the SEM Company that we vary this criteria in line with the wishes of our sector in Scotland. This request has now been rejected and Senscot is seeking your views on the best way forward. ...more

Bid to save community centres
Gerry Braiden, Herald Scotland
Date: 2010-03-02
Eleven council facilities across Glasgow earmarked to be shut by the end of this month as part of financial cuts could be saved from closure by com-munity takeovers....more

Enchanted Forest now in community hands
The Courier
Date: 2010-03-02
THE RUNNING of a major Highland Perthshire tourist draw has been taken over by the local community...more

Banks must be forced to serve poorer communities
Faisel Rahman, The Guardian
Date: 2010-02-25
Residents of the vast plains of Britain that are without a single bank branch can see the loan sharks circling and hear the cries of the high cost lenders...more

Budget Disappointing for Housing - SFHA
SFHA
Date: 2010-02-25
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has expressed deep disappointment that MSPs have not invested any extra funds in affordable housing in 2010-11....more

Citizen Ethics
The Guardian
Date: 2010-02-25
Citizen ethics in a time of crisis is a project by the Guardian, in association with the Citizen Ethics Network, designed to instigate debate about who deserves what, how politics can help humanity flourish and what we mean by a good life. ...more

Community Economic Development Conference, New Zealand

Date: 2010-02-25
The first New Zealand Community Economic Development Conference...more

Scots network refuses to back Social Enterprise Mark
Gemma Hampson, Social Enterprise Magazine
Date: 2010-02-25
Senscot has announced it will not be the Scottish partner of the Social Enterprise Mark because it fears the identifier is 'blurring the boundary' of the movement....more

Localism is all the rage – and it might just work
Jonathan Kestenbaum
Date: 2010-02-23
The news that Labour is to champion Lambeth as its new vision of how local government can work, as an alternative to the Conservatives' "easyCouncil", illustrates the increasing national interest in localism....more

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