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Top Devon Organisations support Devon's Winning Communities
Communities throughout Devon are being asked to shout with pride about their way of life and enter a new competition run by the Community Council of Devon.
Launching on 4 April, the new annual competition will be open to any Devon group, town, village, or society, that thinks and acts like a community and has worked to improve their physical ...
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Heritage Lottery Fund to support Community Council of Devon's local history project
The Community Council of Devon is to work with 6 rural communities to look at the history of community action in the county, thanks to an award of £29,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, it was announced today. The idea for the one year project came from the work undertaken by the Community Council on how the idea of the Big Society could ...
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The Big Society: CCD published some blueprints from Devon communities
Back in September the Community Council of Devon set out how we believed the Big Society could work for Devon. We argued that if the Big Society is to be genuinely focused on communities finding solutions, it was important that we are proactive in designing it for Devon. National thinking seems to concentrate on the needs of our inner cities and ...
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Government unveils its strategy for Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise groups
Quoting from the press release…
'A strategy to support charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises was unveiled by Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society today. It is the first step towards helping civil society organisations grasp new opportunities arising from the massive devolution of power to local communities and r ...
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Commission for Rural Communities chief praises CCD Big Society paper
'Your paper is excellent' said Dr Stuart Burgess, the Chair of the Commission for Rural Communities, referring to the Community Council's Big Society paper. [ link ]
Dr Burgess undertook to involve the Community Council in his discussions with the Government Ministers and the policy officers developing the Big Society agenda.
Our paper ...
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PRESS RELEASE: 13th October 2010
Devon MPs attend Westminster Briefing on the Big Society
Representatives from the Community Council of Devon visited MPs at the Houses of Parliament on 12th October to share their ideas on how the Big Society can work for Devon's communities, and to update them on the current state of play on rural housing.
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Our ideas for the 'Big Society' - Making it work for Devon
The 'Big Society' – Making it work for Devon
The concept of the 'Big Society' seems to summarise a new approach by Government to put both power and opportunity into the hands of the 'community'. Whilst the Government develops the detail of what 'Localism' and 'Big Society' mean in practice, there are already many ideas in circulati ...
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Contributing to the 'Big Society'
– call for evidence by the Commission for Rural Communities
The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) is asking for evidence to help advise Government on ways of fully embracing the contribution and needs of rural communities in the Big Society. CRC would therefore like to hear your views and experiences.
At a time when organisa ...
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