Celebrating the contribution made by the UK's New Towns & exploring the opportunities & challenges they face today. Chair: Andrew Lewin MP. Tweets by @thetcpa.bsky.social
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
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Carnegie UK is an independent charitable foundation that works to deliver better wellbeing for people in the UK and Ireland.
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Director of Health, Health Foundation
Leading work to improve health and reduce inequalities.
Trustee Centre for Homelessness Impact
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Independent Chair Calderdale Cares Partnership Board
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We are an independent charity working to build a healthier future in the UK and across the world.
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WSA Community specialises in community development, meaningful participation and social inclusion. We have a strong ethical approach and values, with an emphasis on being inclusive, respectful and accessible.
We are the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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The UK’s leading provider of training, publications and best-selling funding sources for the charity sector – helping you to help others.
Fighting for mental health – for support, for respect, for you ✊
Exploring and addressing the significant challenges faced by the country's most deprived neighbourhoods.
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Head of Research Analysis, @iconeighbours.bsky.social. Former Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP), United Nations University, and local government.
We are the national membership for all 47 UK-based accredited community foundations and members in Jersey and Bermuda. Our network is active in every area of the UK, enabling investment in communities to transform people's lives.
Awarding #NationalLottery funding to strengthen society and improve lives across the UK. #ItStartsWithCommunity
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The UK's home for community research and social innovation. Also powering the Institute for Community Studies.
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We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
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We bring funders together to build a better London by taking action on what matters to our city and our communities.
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CharityComms is the membership network for communications professionals working in and with UK charities. Find out more about us and our membership at www.charitycomms.org.uk
Just Ideas supports charities, public sector organisations and businesses working towards positive social or organisational change and environmental justice. Visit us at just-ideas.co.uk
Media Trust works in partnership with the media and creative industry to give charities and under-represented talent a stronger voice.
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Place Matters works in partnership with organisations and communities to accelerate the impact of community-centred place-based change.
Civil Society Media is the UK’s only independent media company dedicated solely to supporting the charity sector.
We work with donors to support London's small, local charities and community groups. Helping you make a difference to London. Where it matters most. £127 million in grants distributed since 2010 to local, London, community organisations.
Join us in making our people and communities fairer, stronger and more connected. Strengthening people, sparking community and shifting power in Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond www.grapevinecovandwarks.org #GrapevineAt30
We distribute vital grants and give trusted advice to Community Organisations across Leeds and Bradford to influence positive change.
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Charity Times is the leading charity leadership title for third sector professionals
Home of the #CharityTimesAwards
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We support community-owned businesses because of their track record for delivering better businesses for people, communities, the economy, and the environment.
Journalist|editor|author
📚NEW BOOK Double Discrimination 2026
📚Made Possible 2020
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✍🏽Private Eye|Guardian|Byline Times|Ed. Community Living
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We aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK.
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
The campaign for community power. Driving forward landmark legislation that will give everyone the right to shape the place they live. https://www.right-here.org/
Policy | Participation | Communications | Health inequalities & social justice | Share/like ≠ endorsement
CEO of National Care Forum; Chair Care Provider Alliance; Chair of Global Ageing Network; Honorary Professor City St George’s University of London. Passionate about care, support and housing. Interested in pretty much everything!
Housing, poverty, social policy, cats | Housing policy at Independent Age
Editor, Health @theguardian.com
Assistant political editor at The Times.
Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/peter-foster
Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
Centre for Thriving Places is a place-based not-for-profit consultancy offering strategic support, research, training and tools that help put the wellbeing of people, place and planet centre stage.
Unlocking town centre buildings for amazing ideas 🔑
Co-founding partners: High Streets Task Force, Power to Change, British Property Federation, New Local, Radix, Shoosmiths
https://www.platformplaces.com/
A network of leaders & practitioners across UK government, bridging the gap between national policy & local delivery. Partners
@MetroDynamics @FutureGovForum
Always searching for good coffee.
Posting on public policy etc. while surgeons + physios fix me | Vice Chair, Patients' Voices @rcoanews.bsky.social + rep to @facultypainmed.bsky.social
| Former int'l civil servant + NGOs on human rights etc | https://linktr.ee/jamesingram
Director The SCL Agency, Producer Connecting Citizens to Science podcast - posting personally https://linktr.ee/sarahjglover
Head of Campaigns @CBTransport | Founder @commonandkind & @AllyPallySt
An educational charity promoting the value of adult education for all, provider of part-time #AdultEducation since 1903. https://www.wea.org.uk #WEALabs
Deputy editor of The House magazine in Parliament.
MD of High-Rise Communications. Prev. comms British Red Cross, Ashgate Hospice. Working from Ancoats, Manchester.
BSSEC CIC is a network body that brings together stakeholders, infrastructure organisations, public sector, private businesses and the VCFSE sector across the wider West Midlands with a core aim and passion to grow the regional Social Economy.
Policy Lead @ UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose | MPA | People, pedals, prevention, planet | Interested in systems, policy, & power. Transition to sustainable wellbeing for all
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandramah/
Director www.newbritain.org.uk
Juggling mum of 4, former teacher, former Deputy Director, Public First.
MBA candidate, Bayes Business School
London via Wrexham
Official account for the Community Wealth Fund Alliance campaign. Active Jan 2019-December 2025. Secretariat by Local Trust. This account will no longer be updated.
#CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
#BeeWell is a youth-centred wellbeing programme led by The University of Manchester, The Gregson Family Foundation and Anna Freud with GMCA and Hampshire, IoW, Portsmouth, Southampton. Account not monitored 24/7.
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We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
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Senior fellow in public health and health inequalities at The King's Fund (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/). Bit of a magpie, don't necessarily agree with those i (re)share. Also over at twitter @davidjbuck.
Lecturer in Urban Planning & Placemaking at University of @Manchester.ac.uk Department of Planning, Property & Environmental Management | MRTPI | Urban design, planning, place & policy | Own views
Reporter at Unearthed, Greenpeace UK's investigative journalism project. Used to make TV for BBC and C4.
Director of Research and Policy at Social Enterprise UK
Business for a fairer, greener world
Research Fellow @IPPR
Education, Social Inequality, Food.
Interested in most things but especially health, social care and the voluntary sector. Freelance consultant: https://neiltesterconsulting.co.uk. Chair, Healthwatch Hertfordshire: https://www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk/. My own views, naturally.
Head of Policy, Public Affairs & Research at Healthwatch England.
Asset Based Community Development, home of #KeepLutonTidy peoples movement. A totally voluntary movement encouraging everyone who Lives, Works, Plays or Prays in Luton to keep their area tidy from litter and weeds. ABCD-in-Luton.Org
A social enterprise working with communities, health and care partners to create innovative change of local benefit and national significance.
Find out more www.carecity.org
Associate Professor in Planning and Urban Regeneration at University of Cambridge, Land Economy.
Fellow of Downing College.
Economic Geography & Planning: Local Economic Development, Urban and Regional Transformations.
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Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
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Views my own.
Britain's oldest political think tank. The future of the left since 1884.
EVA supports and develops community and voluntary organisations to make life better for people in Enfield, north London https://enfieldva.org.uk
We also run @volunteerenfield.org.uk
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Research and engagement @wearenewlocal.bsky.social
Putting fairness at the heart of public debate and policymaking in the UK.
https://linktr.ee/FairnessFoundation
Conservation scientist working on wildlife, cities, farmland, wildlands, clean energy, equity, and justice
Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
@unltd @acevo - generally prefer hopeful liberal progress + humour over despair, division, aggro, ego
Bounce makes original, brave, and imaginative work.
We create original stories from scratch.
We believe in collaboration and champion all forms of communication in our creative process.
Trustee and community volunteer in Barnet.
We help public services collaborate to tackle complex social challenges. Stay in touch enquiries@collaboratecic.com https://collaboratecic.com/newsletter/
People’s Health Trust is a national charity working with local communities across Great Britain to address health inequalities through the building blocks of health. We want to stop people dying too young.
Sort of here, sort of there. Politics, Localism, Communities and Cricket. Opinions unlikely to be anyone else's.
Senior Journalist @bbc | Prev @guardian | Highly Commended NCTJ’s News Journalism Award | @The_JDF
Professor of Energy and Society, 125th Anniversary Chair, University of Birmingham, UK
Director, Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC)
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My neurodiverse views
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We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
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Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
We support local community organisations to be strong and successful. #PowerOfCommunity
AKA @localitynews
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Delivering innovative methods of communication in science and global health co-production and knowledge exchange.
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Place, poetry, a dash of policy. Books on civic universities, urban nature, town centre futures and urban policy. Poems on anything. Imposter geographer. Also at juliandobson.net
Listening, encouraging, sharing…
Community Development Adviser, broadcaster, podcaster, fellow of the RSA and C/E priest.
Loves puffins. Dreams of Skomer. Writing novel 2. First slowly. Then faster.
Author, editor, writer, teller of stories. LFC.
And Finally...The Weird and Wonderful World of News is out now, available on Amazon https://rb.gy/8t0ktv
We are the think-do tank that backs community business. We turn bold ideas into action so communities have the power to change what matters to them.
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