(Women are seen selling bananas at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala, Uganda} In Uganda, where many women earn as little as $3 per month, a new generation of agri-entrepreneurs are lifting themselves out of poverty. They are doing so with the support of KadAfrica, a...
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In 1997 the Robert Owen Group launched a co-operative school centred initial teacher training project through the Marches Consortium and in partnership with the University of Gloucester. The scheme rapidly grew and became the largest of its type in the United Kingdom , successfully training over 3,700 post graduates who now work in our schools and colleges with many at senior leadership levels. Alongside this we launched a Master’s level programme for trainers in schools and for former trainees and teachers to access as career progression.
It became clear that the absence of an institute of higher education in the Marches sub region posed a real impediment to developing research, seminal thinking and platonic discourse. We often ignore the valuable infrastructure that comes with a quality centre of higher education. The Directors of the Marches Consortium developed a Robert Owen Learning Academy in Leominster and encouraged many ‘hub’ schools to have satellite post graduate libraries for their ‘clusters’.
This is all now background history but our 1998 creation of “query” as a radical journal of left field thinking has now in 2021 led to the addition of this section to the Marches Hive website. We want to stimulate thinking, discussion and the sharing of relevant news and knowledge.
We called the original 1990’s journal query because our minds turned to the creation in the 1870’s of the Tredegar Medical Aid Society which started life as as ‘Health and Education Fund’. In 1920 Walter Conway , Aneurin Bevan and others formed the radical Query Club as a new development. The Club was a cross between a debating society, a mutual support group , a focus for sharing contemporary knowledge and a body set on advancing radical thinking to address the issues of the day. In those times adult education was very much in cells following on the model of the early Methodist house groups.
We believe the challenges of today in many ways mirror those of one hundred years ago and we do encourage everyone’s to engage with query and to share your thoughts, views, knowledge and understanding so that we can all grow together . Thank you
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UnLtd, Big Issue Invest and Social Value UK to launch free diversity, equity and inclusion toolkit for social entrepreneurs
Big Issue Invest (BII), UnLtd and Social Value UK (SVUK) are excited to announce a new partnership to co-develop a toolkit to support social purpose organisations (SPOs) to measure and manage their approach to organisational Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)...
RISE & THRIVE: SAFINA & AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT PROMISE
In the last two years, the pandemic has strained every aspect of operations for organizations in the social sector. Nonprofit organizations (NGOs) saw drops in funding, higher costs for goods and services, and a simultaneous increase in need in their communities. As...
Lofty Heights – supporting Suffolk
Lofty Heights CIC completed a pilot project with Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG last summer that saw their Homeward Bound Project commissioned for a further year. The service carries out practical tasks within the home that may prevent patients from leaving hospital in...
MORE IN COMMON: The global state of social enterprise
The British Council and Social Enterprise UK are delighted to invite you to the MORE IN COMMON: The global state of social enterprise report launch on 7th June 2022. This is the first study to provide a genuinely global picture of social enterprise. Please...
Minority Report: Doubling the Size of the Co-op Economy
written by Les Huckfield In June 2017 Labour’s Election Manifesto made a commitment to double the size of the co-operative economy. To implement and interpret this approach, the Co-operative Party tasked the New Economics Foundation (NEF) to provide further details in...
Tackling affordable housing and isolation issues – Homeshare UK
Jess Jackson – Homeshare UK Communications and Marketing Officer Loneliness, living alone and poor social connections are as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half a million older people go at least five or six days a week without seeing or speaking...
Mutual Home Ownership
written by Hannah Watson. illustration by Adam Rich Stirtoaction.com There is a real and growing housing crisis in the UK: the current system isn’t delivering what communities need. A small proportion of people on very low income qualify for social housing, and at the...
Serbian energy co-op launches crowdfunder for two mountain solar plants
Elektropionir co-op hopes the move will help decentralise energy production and drive citizen involvement in the energy transition Serbian energy co-op Elektropionir has launched a crowdfunding campaign for two solar power plants in villages on the Stara...
Introducing the Young Cooperators’ Network
written by Hannah Watson, Owen Powell & Simin Wadiwala, illustration by Chapel Street Studio Stirtoaction.com The Young Cooperators' Network (YCN) has been relaunched, emerging from different iterations over the last decade to give young people a voice in the...
