Leonard Johnson obituary
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by Richard Gutch
2M ago
In 1981, on the same night as riots were breaking out in Brixton, the community leader Leonard Johnson, faced with a crowd of angry young people on one side and armed police on the other, stopped the same happening in Harlesden, north-west London. “Let’s build, not destroy,” he argued and for the next 40 years, that was his guiding philosophy. My friend Leonard, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was a founding member and chair of the Harlesden People’s Community Council and was the driving force in the setting-up of Bridge Park, then the largest black community project in Europe ..read more
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Social enterprise offers young people paid opportunity to protect UK oceans
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by Olivia Lee
2M ago
Sea Ranger Service will offer the chance to carry out maintenance work and climate research on sailing vessels A social enterprise has launched offering people between the ages of 18 and 29 the chance to protect the seas around the UK while getting paid. The Sea Ranger Service (SRS) will offer young people the chance to sail out to sea and undertake vital work to conserve Britain’s oceans ..read more
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Creative ideas to turn train stations into social hubs | Letter
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by Guardian Staff
5M ago
After the government climbdown on closures, Prof Paul Salveson highlights social enterprises helping to save train stations There is a crying need, as you argue in your editorial, for much more creative thinking about how to develop our stations as “social hubs” in the wake of the government’s climbdown over ticket office closures (The Guardian view on England’s train stations: make them part of a rail renaissance, 5 November). Here at Kents Bank in Cumbria, we’re developing a railway library in the station building, and next door there’s an excellent art gallery in the former gents’ toil ..read more
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‘We made a nuisance of ourselves’: how Citizens House created real affordable housing – for ever!
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by Oliver Wainwright
1y ago
After years of campaigning, 11 homes have been built as London’s first community land trust – protected in value from the volatile property market. We meet the people who made it happen In the back corner of a council estate in south London once occupied by dingy rows of lock-up garages next to a playground, there now stands a gleaming white brick block of flats. Big balconies jut out from its facade in a staggered grid, while a broad staircase loops up the back, where generous curved landings provide spots to stop and take in the view over the treetops to the skyline beyond. At first glance ..read more
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Remade in Paris: new life for capital’s abandoned buildings
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by Catherine Frances Bennett
1y ago
Across the French capital, old stations, factories and a university campus are being transformed into artists’ studios, theatres and some of the city’s hottest clubbing venues An enormous art nouveau greenhouse rises from the Meudon forest, its front made entirely of glass. Inside, suspended from the ceiling, is a 21-metre-long shiny, inflatable zeppelin, which looks as though any minute it might burst through the facade’s central circular pane. The airship is a permanent, site-specific artwork by Korean artist Lee Bul, designed to draw attention to and define the huge space: this is Hangar Y ..read more
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Jam today: how the Soul Shack nurtures the spirit of a community
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by Miranda Bryant
1y ago
Your donations will help a south London youth club to thrive – and contribute to the community in so many other ways ‘Who wants to learn how to make jam?” Shanelle Webb calls out after the children have finished eating tacos. The energetic hula-hooping, Christmas wreath-making, dancing and playing with fidget toys briefly pauses and hands go up to a chorus of “meeee!” On a table, chopping boards and knives are laid out and a group of children surround the 25-year-old as she demonstrates how to cut strawberries. Next, they heat them on a hob with pomegranate and sugar. Later, they will take som ..read more
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‘Pay what you can afford’: Newcastle bakery combats rising cost of living
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by Mark Brown North of England correspondent
1y ago
Big River Bakery is one of many charities and social enterprises that are focus of Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2022 • Please donate to the appeal here “They are absolutely food of the gods,” said Andy Haddon after a few minutes eulogising about the simplicity, slight chewiness and fabulous taste of the stottie, the round flat loaf that is as much a part of north-east England as football or T-shirts in winter. Haddon is speaking in front of the Big River Bakery, which he opened in 2019 on a housing estate in Shieldfield, a diverse, disadvantaged but also buzzy and communal part of Newc ..read more
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Tony Flower obituary
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by Kate Gavron
1y ago
My friend Tony Flower, who has died aged 71 of cancer, was a social entrepreneur and writer, and a maker of musical instruments, models and charities. For 20 years he worked with Michael Young (Lord Young of Dartington) at the research organisation the Institute for Community Studies, helping Young create and develop some of the organisations that made him the most prolific social entrepreneur of the 20th century. Tony was deputy director of the ICS – where I was a fellow trustee – from 1994 to 1996 and chair from 2001 to 2005 (before and after Young’s death), and he then chaired the renamed Y ..read more
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Founders of ticketing platform Humanitix honoured with Committee for Sydney award
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by Tamsin Rose
1y ago
Josh Ross and Adam McCurdie recognised for work on social enterprise that donates ticket booking fees to charity Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast A social enterprise that donates booking fees from tickets for festivals, concerts and events to children’s charities has been recognised with a Committee for Sydney award. Humanitix co-founders, Josh Ross and Adam McCurdie, have been recognised as emerging leaders by the Committee for Sydney as part of the thinktank’s annual awards alongside other New South Wales business and culture leaders. Sign up to receive a ..read more
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‘Free meals for homeless’ cafe in London’s East End at risk as donations dry up
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by Zoe Wood
1y ago
The Canvas’s founder says takings were so low as cost of living crisis bites she thought tills were broken The founder of a London social enterprise that gives free meals to refugees and the homeless has said it is at risk of closure because the cost of living crisis has led to a collapse in sales and donations. Ruth Rogers, the founder of The Canvas in the East End of London, said there had been a dramatic collapse in trade in its cafe in recent weeks, with takings so low that one day she thought its tills were broken ..read more
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