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RSA East of England Conference

Unleashing Potential – Building a better society. The RSA East of England Conference on 29th June, at the CMS in Cambridge, was a great day to engage with members of the community and…

Unleashing Potential – Building a Better Society

The RSA East of England Conference on 29th June is set to explore the creative potential that lies within the region and amongst the 2000 members of the Royal Society for the Arts…

Books go Walkabout – e-Print Publisher

Books Go Walkabout, our international literacy project,  has just started on a new journey, into e-publishing. An exciting new adventure and we are pleased to start our journey with a book in our…

Social Incubator North now active…

There is a new feeling of enterprise and social business generation abroad in the North of England. Social Incubator North is now taking applications for the new fund, offering support, encouragement and practical…

Children’s Centres Ofsted Inspection Changes

From April 2013 Ofsted have made changes to the inspection framework for Sure Start Children’s Centres The main changes are in a reduced set of judgements, from 20 to 4, and a change…

William Tyndale School, UK
& Aleesah Darlison, Australia

Books Go Walkabout Projects 2013 One of our partnership literacy projects has been working in schools and letting children and young people talk to authors across the globe. Students from Year 6 at…

Parent’s Participation Research at Daycare Trust

Parents’ Forum at Granard Children’s Centre in Wandsworth Daycare Trust has been exploring the range of volunteering opportunities and parent participation initiatives being managed by local authorities and Children’s Centres in England. The…

A Quiet Revolution

What happens in communities when funding for projects is cut back? When plans and development for new centres no longer happens and the traditional means of support is withdrawn, what is the real…

Making connections in the Storyverse

We think that our projects are about making connections. Connecting children with books, connecting people with communities, making information freely available on-line for those communities of interest…revealing new things in new ways. We…

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