One of our earlier programmes on the Grassroots Channel was about a Birmingham based organisation called Women Acting in Todays Society. They have also been running the Women’s Empowerment Network in conjunction with b:cen.

BVSC tell me that WAITS has three jobs going: a community organiser, a BME women’s capacity builder and a Chinese women [...]

Thanks to Sunny at Pickled Politics for this quote from Peter Horrocks, the head of BBC News at the BBC:
So, the days of middle-of-the-road, balancing left and right, impartiality are dead. Instead I believe we need to consider adopting what I like to think of as a much wider “radical impartiality” – the need to [...]

I just wanted to mention a link I received in an email from a Friends of the Earth staffer.  It leads you to a very simple and clear page setting out the different ways individuals can support FOE.  Great example of the under rated problem of how to convert all those fresh and exciting new [...]

Richard Wilson at Involve has commented on the BBC’s tentative steps towards building public participation. “The BBC is stuck in 20th Century top-down parental thinking”, he says, continuing:
if the BBC really wants to support civil renewal it needs to give people the tools to make their own content without the aid of a studio or [...]

What does is take to build and nourish social cohesion? I’ve often thought the term itself has been twisted over the past year, from an expression of a neighbourhood at ease with itself to a poor short hand for tackling extremism, including home grown terror of a variety of political, religious and philosophical [...]

Thank you Mark.

“99 bloggers and a troubled diva walked into a publisher. The first blogger said…”.  Well, details on how a network of bloggers is supporting Comic Relief and how to buy their book Shaggy Blog Stories from  Steve Bridger at nfp2.0.
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Pam Giddy at the power inquiry has been in touch to tell us about a handful of films made to challeneg the process of reforming the Lords. You can find them through these links to www.makeitanissue.org.uk.

– Alex Hardy and Phil Hall’s ‘The Road to House of Lords Reform’ – Mark Wrainwright’s ‘The [...]