Love Your Streets
Love Your Streets has seen hundreds of people mobilised to make a difference in their local community through clear-up days, litter collecting and acts of kindness.
Features
Our Bright idea section is your chance to shout about new ways to create better places. We’ll feature the best ideas outlining a project or policy in no more than 500 words that’s as yet untested or already getting results.
Send your submissions to austin@newstartmag.co.uk
Living Labs: connecting the challenges of global cities with innovators around the world
31st January 2012 By admin
In our Living Labs Global Award programme, we are working with 21 global cities to articulate some of their most pressing problems as an opening for new technologies, business and service models to offer solutions.
Trading Places Challenge
12th January 2012 By Charles Dodwell
The serious message: how difficult is it to live on JSA and how impossible is it to save enough money on it to start your own business?
Community buying challenge
9th December 2011 By Clare Goff
The £60,000 ‘Buy Better Together Challenge’ aims to help inspire new models of community buying, stimulate enterprise and promote shared learning.
Re-Tweet to Work Day, 8th December 2011
7th December 2011 By Mark Barnes
A campaign to get people back to work, save national skills and fill vacancies in businesses of all sizes comes together on Retweet for Work Day this Thursday, 8th December.
Bring & Fix
27th October 2011 By admin
Bring & Fix is an intergenerational fair that brings together local people of different ages under one roof to share their skills and knowledge.
Social tourism
11th October 2011 By admin
Could access to leisure and tourism be the way to tackle the UK’s social problems?
A Little Patch of Ground
31st August 2011 By admin
There is a unique community project taking place at the moment called ‘A Little Patch of Ground’, led by participatory arts group, Encounters. Since April 2011 two community vegetable gardens have been established and two culturally diverse and intergenerational groups have been formed.
My Card loyalty programme
29th June 2011 By Mark Barnes
My Card offers an innovative approach to high street loyalty. An area-based loyalty programme, it uses a ‘pay as you go’ card to reward residents for rediscovering their local high streets.
The Living Streets Community Game
23rd June 2011 By admin
As local authorities and communities begin to use neighbourhood plans, the Community Game is an invaluable tool for equipping participants with the skills and knowledge needed to shape their environments.
