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The Big Idea: turning the spaces above us into art

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02 Dec 2013

Catherine Shovlin FRSA has launched a crowdfunding campaign to develop a creative arts space working with the local community.

Regions & Nations Annual Conferences

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27 Nov 2013

Vivs Long-Ferguson

Firstly, have you missed me?  Foolish question I know but I have been very lax in my commitment to the Fellowship blog.  No doubt you are all dying to know what the regional team have been up to over the past few months.  One of our key tasks since June has been supporting regions and nations host their annual conferences.  The team have been working and supporting Chairs, Councillors and Fellows on these events.

The Big Idea: a wiki guide to public services

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18 Nov 2013

The Big Idea: Nalibeli is an online platform created by Blair Glencorse FRSA and Surabhi Pudasaini that helps citizens in Nepal to navigate complicated public services, and uses crowdsourcing to give people access to the information they need.  Here, Blair explains more...

"Cracking good job, Gromit!"

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11 Nov 2013

Kate Monkhouse

Bristol, and indeed the west region, was taken over by Gromit fever over the summer.  Eighty different 5ft high giant Gromits  were painted and situated all over the city, creating an art trail and the opportunity for people to explore Bristol whilst searching for the Gromits.

The Big Idea: empowering Rwandan students through debate

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04 Nov 2013

The Big Idea: this December, Jack Watling FRSA and three colleagues will run Rwanda’s first Debate Camp, bringing together over 200 students for ten days of intensive training in analysing issues and policies, constructing and deconstructing arguments, and using rhetoric.

The truth about (social enterprise) communications

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29 Oct 2013

Our most recent social enterprise breakfast was an illuminating affair for me. We have been holding these breakfasts for a couple for years now so it was high time that we focused on communications, and specifically how we approach communications in the social enterprise sector.  We were joined by Peter Gilheany, PR Director for Forster Communications, a communications agency which was set up by Jilly Forster in 1996.  Jilly's aim was to set up an agency with similar ethics to her previous workplace, The Body Shop.

My first Makespace

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22 Oct 2013

Hilary Chittenden

Despite having been working on the RSA’s new project around Making for the last 6 months, running events to connect Makers from all levels such as the FutureMaker day back in June and our recent Maker Networking workshops, until last week I had never actually visited a real life ‘Makerspace’.

The Big Idea: a network of godless congregations

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21 Oct 2013

This is a guest blog from Sanderson Jones FRSA who along with Pippa Evans set up the Sunday Assembly. Sanderson blogs here about their plans for the next few months.

'When Bees Meet Trees': scaling social innovation through existing organisations - guest post

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15 Oct 2013

Clore Social Leadership Fellows Owen Jarvis and Ruth Marvel call for established charities, housing associations and NGOs to radically rethink their roles and business models and “open-up” to emerging social innovations in order to be successful in tackling social issues.