[cma-l] Empowerment White Paper

[Phil Korbel]

to follow on from Helen's useful email

It is likely that there will be special mention in one of the White 
Paper chapters for community media and the use of 'new technologies' 
to encourage active citizenship and to promote local democracy.  DCLG 
know that this isn't new but they want to encourage it and would like 
to hear from you if you have stories of how it has worked for you.   

Dont hold your breath for new money magically appearing, but the 
higher profile and direction to local authorities that might flow 
from the White Paper could be very useful to us all.

So it's really important that the whole sector chips in to feed in 
their views and evidence into this White Paper process. 

For more information please visit the CLG website 
(http://tinyurl.com/6qnrpl), where you can read the White Paper 
launch document (http://tinyurl.com/2gls9b).

Alternatively please email unlockingTalent at communities.gsi.gov.uk for
more information.

bests

Phil

Date sent:      	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:52:03 +0100
From:           	CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
To:             	cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject:        	[cma-l] Community Power Pack

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> From: helen manchester <helen.l.manchester at manchester.ac.uk>
> 
> This may be of interest...
> 
> Involve is proud to announce the launch of the 'Community Power Pack'
> (http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/powerpack ); a
> document that Involve has developed for Communities and Local
> Government (CLG).
> 
> The 'Community Power Pack' contains all the information you need to
> run a participative event on Empowerment. It follows Communities
> Secretary Hazel Blears' announcement of a new Empowerment White Paper.
>  It is aimed at groups who wouldn't normally take part to let their
> views and experiences be known; and as a result we have made the pack
> as practical and easy to use as possible.
> 
> The pack contains suggestions on how to run an event, with advice for
> facilitators and organisers as well as detailed information about
> empowerment issues. It also poses some questions around empowerment
> issues that CLG would like to hear your views on. The results of the
> events will feed into the development of the upcoming Community
> Empowerment White paper.
> 
> For more information please visit the CLG website
> (http://tinyurl.com/6qnrpl), where you can read the White Paper launch
> document (http://tinyurl.com/2gls9b).
> 
> Alternatively please email unlockingTalent at communities.gsi.gov.uk for
> more information.
> 
> Involve will be updating the pack based on user feedback and we
> welcome any thoughts you might have on it. Please send your practical
> thoughts and ideas on the pack to edward at involve.org.uk
> 
> Helen
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