Empowering Communities: Autumn Empowerment Events

Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society, is keynote speaker at the Big Society Conference in Taunton on 4 November, led by Take Part Champions Exeter CVS and Empowering Communities. NOW FULLY BOOKED!!  Read more

The Participatory Budgeting (PB) unit is holding its National conference on 9 November 2010 in Westminster, London. Read more

Zebra Collective's event Seeing is Believing - a living example of an estate which manages its own affairs will take place on 16 November on the Pembroke Street Estate in Plymouth. It looks at involvement and participation in its widest context. Read more

Urban Forum and CDX are also both holding briefings on the Big Society in Bristol in November.

Urban Forum's is on 1 November (read more), and CDX's on 25 November (read more).

The Sheila McKechnie foundation is holding an Introduction to Campaigning workshop in Taunton on 19 November aimed at individuals and voluntary organisations (read more).

Resources may be shrinking, but the importance of local people in deciding what they want from local services is of ever greater importance.  The tools of community empowerment are key to this, so don't miss these events.