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Category: Active Citizenship Toolkit

Scrutiny Handbook launched – how to keep tabs on #Manchester City Council’s broken #climate promises

5 October, 2020 Marc Hudson 1 Comment

Manchester City Council is caught in an endless cycle of promises followed by lack of delivery.   There is a…

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Posted in: Active Citizenship Toolkit, Petition for cash and democracy, Scrutiny Committee Meetings, Student Climate Handbook

Council wastes 50k on “new economic narrative”, without tender. Scrutiny urgently required.

29 September, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

Manchester City Council has given 50 thousand pounds to a couple of consultancies for a “new economic narrative.” The “narrative”…

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Posted in: Active Citizenship Toolkit, Coronavirus, Economy Scrutiny Committee, Petition for cash and democracy

Abyss Staring – a beginners guide

1 September, 2020 Calum McFarlane 1 Comment

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil:…

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Posted in: Active Citizenship Toolkit, Coming To Our Own Emotional Rescue

A bit more than a novice’s guide to GDPR #activecitizenstoolkit

27 August, 2020 Adam Peirce Leave a comment

As part of our Active Citizenship Toolkit, we are today releasing our guide (pdf) to the General Data Protection Regulation…

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Active Citizenship Toolkit surges ahead!! Help needed with proof-reading and #crashtestdummy

22 August, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

There has been further enormous progress with the Active Citizenship Toolkit. a) we now have excellent icons for almost all…

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Active Citizenship Toolkit – more progress, but in reverse order to what we expected

15 August, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

There’s an old military adage that applies to, well, everything – “No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” And…

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#ActiveCitizenshipToolkit- lots of (invisible) progress- Crash Test Dummies needed…

9 August, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

The Active Citizenship Toolkit is – under the surface – developing fast. A couple of weeks ago we came up…

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Progress on the Toolkit, and there may be trouble ahead (so let’s face the music…). Also, cats. #ActiveCitizenshipToolkit

1 August, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

The Active Citizenship Toolkit is picking up fans and users. Two groups (one in Manchester, one beyond) have already started…

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Posted in: Active Citizenship Toolkit, Volunteer Requests

Endless F***ing Meetings and “Legitimate Peripheral Participation” – a novice’s guide #ActiveCitizenshipToolkit

26 July, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

Why are so many groups so bad at getting “the best” out of their members and supporters? We at CEM…

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52 things every group needs to be able to do. Do you agree? – Active Citizenship Toolkit

25 July, 2020 Marc Hudson Leave a comment

What are the thing that ANY group needs to be able to do?  What do you think of our list…

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Well it’s spring and the “no such thing” as New Islington green springs to life before it’s lost by @GeneralProjects

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Glasgow. Really. God, what a horrorshow (and not in the Nadsat sense).

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