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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 […]
Over the last few days we’ve been carrying out a series of in-depth interviews in north Huddersfield, examining the progress made by the Deighton and Brackenhall Initiative. The initiative has been working for a decade to improve what were some of the poorest areas of Kirklees in west Yorkshire. The work has included the demolition […]
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 […]
The tiny north Yorkshire village of Hudswell had no shop and no Post Office, so when its only pub closed in 2008 because the owners couldn’t afford the mortgage, the community suffered a serious blow. After 18 months without the George and Dragon, a group of locals decided enough was enough. Eighty villagers, along with […]
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