JustAct is a new website (currently in beta) that supports Third Sector organisations to help each other create, implement and review their action plan on climate change.
What follows is an extract from 'Comment is Free' in the Guardian Newspaper, Monday 15 March 2010. To read the full article please visit www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/15/charlie-brooker-time ...
This week's Website of the Web is Leeds Urban Harvest (www.leedsurbanharvest.org.uk) - a voluntary run project that collects and distributes soft fruits that grow unharvested around our city on...
Carnegie UK Trust has long championed the work of rural communities across the UK and Ireland. Our report, A Charter for Rural Communities was published in June 2007. ...
The Yorkshire and Humber Biodiversity Forum (YHBF) produced a regional ‘Biodiversity Opportunity Areas Map’ in autumn 2009. YHBF developed and issued this map in response to the desire from the...
Every month YHREF provides a digest of policy happenings and reports from the Yorkshire and Humber region. This is now known by the snappy title - 'YHREF In the Field'....
This week's Website of the Web is Sheffield Is My Planet (www.sheffieldismyplanet.co.uk) - a city-wide communications campaign that is a partnership between Sheffield City Council and Sheffield First for Environment...
The Environmental Law Foundation (www.elflaw.org) is a London based charity which helps people to use the law to protect and improve their local environment and quality of life. You...
For some time the idea of setting up a meeting to discuss required ecological research on the Humber has been discussed in various circles. The purposes of such a meeting...
Please see the attached Agenda and Papers for the next Spatial Planning Board Meeting taking place on Thursday 4 March 2010 at the LGYH Offices, King Street, Wakefield. If you...
Celebrating through times of crisis: prospects and potentials for tourism, festivals and cultural events is the next in the Journeys of Expression series. Building on the established collaboration between the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) and the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA), this conference will bring together international academic researchers in the field of tourism and festival studies with policy makers and practitioners in the festivals and cultural events sector.
The University of Sheffield's Doctoral Training Centre for Interdisciplinary Energy Research students will be presenting the results of their mini-projects, future PhD projects and the Carbon Challenge at our autumn conference in the Carlton Park Hotel, Rotherham, on the 13th and 14th of September.
Guest speakers will give talks on the challenges the scientific and industrial community faces in meeting a sustainable energy future.
Key seminar on a key aspect of policy by the new coalition government on devolving powers from the centre: How best can we deliver regional economic growth in a period of deficit reduction?
How does culture fit within the Big Society, localism, and making neighbourhoods better? Is there room for culture within the the local authority improvement agenda? How can creativity help to engage people? In lean times, what is the argument for embedding culture within renewal work? Is the role of the arts in public realm bigger than public art?
This one day conference, supported by Arts Council England, will draw upon a successful and nationally unique three year programme called ‘Creative Places’ in Sheffield.
