Inspiration of the week: the ABLE project

Where there’s muck there’s brass goes the saying, but in Wakefield they could add that where there’s muck there’s fish, vegetables, wildlife and a training project for long term unemployed people. The ABLE project is a social enterprise based on 34 acres of Yorkshire Water land at Caldervale sewage works. The former landfill site combines […]

    

Inspiration of the Week: The Parks Trust, Milton Keynes

Concrete cows notwithstanding, Milton Keynes has always been a town with a commitment to the natural environment. When the vision for the new town was birthed in the 1960s, the plan was to make it a ‘forest city’, integrating the countryside into the urban landscape. The result was more than 4,500 acres of river valleys, […]

    

Inspiration of the Week: Halifax Opportunities Trust

Halifax Opportunities Trust shows how a social enterprise can sometimes step in to provide services that have previously relied on government funding – and some of the challenges such an approach raises. The trust was set up to continue some of the activities of the government funded West Central Halifax Partnership, which came to an […]

    

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