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Headingley Development Trust

Headingley Development Trust

by Chris on 20. May, 2010 in Development Trusts

About the same time we set up Camberwell in 2006, a group of us established Headingley Development Trust .
We set up clubs, bought a shop, established a farmer’s market, undertook two successful community share issues of £100k each and recruited 900 members and have started a community orchard project, but the big prize took 5 [...]

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Sustainable Communities (book)

Sustainability – yuch!

by Chris on 09. May, 2010 in Regeneration

I hate the word almost as much as ‘going forward’. It’s become one of those overused and undefined regen words that has me reaching for a Macdonalds.
Yet the struggle for it gets me out of bed each morning. It’s not just the eco bit, it’s how you create the better world. A Camberwell preoccupation, as [...]

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